The Best Bits From David Letterman's Epic 'New York Magazine' Interview
David Letterman has given an epic interview to New York magazine, in which he talks Trump, Bannon, and the challenge of trying to buy a pair of shoelaces in America these days.
TOM SYKES
03.06.17 3:38 AM ET
An impressively bearded David Letterman has given an epic interview to New York magazine’s David Marchese, in which the one-time king of late night casts a self-deprecating eye back over his storied career and weighs in with his trademark irony on the Trump administration.
Here’s some of Letterman’s best lines from the piece.
On interviewing Trump before he ran for president: “He was a joke of a wealthy guy. We didn’t take him seriously. He’d sit down, and I would just start making fun of him. He never had any retort. He was big and doughy, and you could beat him up. He seemed to have a good time, and the audience loved it, and that was Donald Trump.”
On Trump’s outrageous statements: “I’m tired of people being bewildered about everything he says: ‘I can’t believe he said that.’ We gotta stop that and instead figure out ways to protect ourselves from him. We know he’s crazy. We gotta take care of ourselves here now.”
On possible Russian interference in the election: “I do like the idea that Putin has something on Don and decided: “Let’s get him in office, and we’ll get things to go our way.” That’s beginning to sound like an Alex Jones theory, but that’d be fun, wouldn’t it?”
On Alec Baldwin and comedy: “Comedy’s one of the ways that we can protect ourselves.
Alec Baldwin deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sadly, he’s not going to get it from this president. In a 2007 playoff game, a swarm of midges from Lake Erie caused Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain to blow the game with a few wild pitches. Well, that’s Alec Baldwin and Saturday Night Live. It’s distracting the batter. Eventually Trump’s going to take a fastball off the sternum and have to leave the game.”
On Steve Bannon: “Bannon looks like a guy who goes to lunch, gets drunk, and comes back to the office: ‘Steve, could you have just one drink?’ ‘Fuck you.’ How is a white supremacist the chief adviser to our president? Did anybody look that up?”
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