Radio shock jock Howard Stern thinks he helped Donald Trump become president by frequently interviewing him, though he admits to voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In fact, Stern thinks Clinton made a mistake by never appearing on his show.
‘I wanted to see Hillary Clinton win,’ Stern told Good Morning America on Monday.
‘If she had come on the show - the way I helped Donald was I let him come on and be a personality,' he said.
‘Whether you liked him or not ... people related to him as a human being.
‘I wanted to do that for Hillary.
‘The big knock against Hillary, especially with some of the male audience, was, “Eh, we don't like her.”’
Howard Stern (above) said on Monday he believes he helped Donald Trump become president
Stern said that while he considered Trump a friend, he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016
The radio legend added: ‘Hillary Clinton’s afraid of me, and justifiably.’
‘I thought that perhaps if she came on my show, we could've stripped away some of the pomp and circumstance or the tightness that comes with running for president and, like Donald, she could've been seen in a different light.’
Stern credited Trump with being genuine and authentic when he came on the air.
‘Donald Trump, hands down, whenever you put him on the air, now, this is before he was running for president, he was an open book,’ Stern said.
‘He would say anything. And you know, oddly enough - during the campaign and even now, people quote these interviews that I did with him.’
Stern, who is promoting his latest book, Howard Stern Comes Again, criticized the media for digging up quotes from Trump’s interviews on the air during the presidential campaign.
In the weeks before the 2016 election, CNN’s KFile unearthed a clip from 1998 in which Trump compares the risk of getting sexually transmitted diseases in the 1980s to the Vietnam War.
In the clip, Stern asks Trump: ‘Let's say you're with a hot chick, right? But you're so germ paranoid, and I'm germ paranoid, do you say to them, “look
