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The previous late night time host Jay Leno broke his personal rule about not publicly speaking about his political beliefs final week when he revealed that he’s “not a fan” of the previous President Donald Trump. Nonetheless, he additionally spoke out towards Democrats for making an attempt to maintain Trump off the poll.
Leno ‘Not A Fan’ of Trump
Whereas showing on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Leno was requested by host Piers Morgan about what he thinks about Trump.
“I’m not a fan,” Leno replied, occurring to tear Democrat makes an attempt to maintain Trump off the poll, saying, “I’m against that.”
Morgan chimed in to say that these efforts are “anti-democratic,” and Leno agreed.
“If the people want that person as president, that’s fine,” Leno continued. “I mean, I’m not a fan, and it has nothing to do with politics. I just don’t think morally — I think we could do a little bit better. You know all these indictments, whatever it might be.”
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Leno Beforehand Stayed Politically Impartial
On this similar interview, Leno opened up about his earlier coverage of staying politically impartial in public.
“I just stopped doing politics in my act altogether. You know, when I did ‘The Tonight Show,’ the idea was you made fun of both sides equally,” he mentioned. “They’d both be angry. And I’d go, ‘Oh, that’s good.’ You know, they both think you’re supporting the other guy.”
“Now, you’ve gotta take a side, and people are angry if you don’t,” he added, occurring to say that now, folks “want to know the punchline before – is this pro or against – you know? So I just, I just stopped doing it.”
“I just want people to come and laugh and have a good time. That’s the idea of doing a comedy,” he acknowledged, noting that injecting his personal political opinion is “useless.”
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Leno Discusses The Future
At one other level within the interview, Morgan requested Leno, “Do you worry about what may happen in this country in terms of the division, if Trump was to get reelected?”
“Well, you get the government you deserve,” Leno replied. “I mean, that’s pretty much the way the world works, or at least ways America works, if that’s what people choose. Well, that’s that’s what’s going to happen, is it? So I don’t know, I would prefer it– I mean, it seems pretty calm now and the economy seems to be in pretty good shape. I sort of like the things Biden’s been doing. I think he’s done a really good job with the economy.”
“But you have people now who just, if someone says the economy is terrible, ‘it is?’ Okay,” he continued. “You know. I mean, gas prices have nothing to do with the president. You know, all those type of things. So I don’t know. I don’t know. I try not to. I’m not an expert in this area.”
“This is the one thing I love about America,” Leno concluded. “Now, we’re the only place in the world. If you go to Europe. We wanted to talk about the economy. So I went to the University of Economics at Pomona. We go to a truck stop in Lima, Ohio. You know, here in America, you go to the truck stop. You talk to the guy and hear what he has. Oh, I would rather have an expert, you know.”
Take a look at this full interview within the video under.
Whereas we’re glad that Leno isn’t giving Democrats a whole free cross, we discover it unlucky that he selected to interrupt his personal rule about abstaining from speaking politics by bashing Trump. Now, Leno has proven himself to be simply one other out of contact member of the liberal elite who mistakenly thinks that talking out towards Trump will someway sway those that help the previous president.
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