Howard Stern Says Trump’s 2005 Remarks Were Not ‘Locker Room Talk’
Yesterday on his show, Howard Stern said he had no plans to replay any old Donald Trump interviews as that might constitute a “betrayal” of his friend.
He also said, however, that what Trump said to Billy Bush in 2005 about grabbing women “by the pussy” is absolutely not “locker room talk,” as the campaign has tried to brand it.
From the Billboard transcript of his statements on the matter:
But this idea of “locker room talk”… all the times I’ve been around guys — and believe me when I’m around guys 85 percent of the times you’re talking about pussy — but I have never been in the room when someone has said “grab them by the pussy.” No one’s ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, “Hey I’m going to invade someone’s space.” … A lot of [locker room banter is] real kind of desperate talk. The reason it’s in a locker room is because no one’s proud of it.
He also went on to explain why he had Trump — a man who “loved to talk about sex” and “evaluate women on a scale of one to 10” — on his show so frequently: “These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience.”
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