Elitist septuagenarian Jerry Springer took credit for 45th President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, making the argument that his show’s elevation of the lower class enabled the Republican real estate mogul’s ascension to the White House.
Springer, who in his retirement has become a regular on the left wing media circuit, said that his old show combined with social media provided the one-two punch that led America to elect Trump in 2016. He made the remarks during an appearance on something called the Dean Obeidallah Show, which airs on Sirius XM.
Obeidallah, according to Google, is “a frequent contributor to CNN, The Daily Beast, and MSNBC” and, according to Twitter, his account boasts 139,100 Twitter followers. Obeidallah, apparently not one to beat around the bush, asked Springer if his show should be blamed for Trump’s election.
“Probably social media more,” said Springer, “but yes, there’s no question.”
Springer explained that “the behavior of some of the people on the show is exactly Donald Trump,” but progressive icons like him “respect” the people who behaved violently on his hit network TV show more because they had the good “sense” not to become president.
It’s really about class, argues Springer. And Trump is of the same, low class as the ugly Americans who threw chairs at each other while America laughed.
“They’re on the show letting their emotions out, letting their feelings out,” said Springer. “They don’t speak the Queen’s English, they don’t have money, they don’t live in palaces, they aren’t rich and famous.”
“But they have feelings like everyone else,” he said, sympathizing with his guests. “Everyone else” apparently means other rich and famous people like Springer.
“They don’t have the skills to settle things in different ways,” he continued, “But that’s Trump.”
Trump, explained Springer, had the audacity to believe he could transcend his lower class, and that he was worthy to be in a position of power over people like Springer.
The people who settled their relationship disputes and paternity tests while throwing punches, cursing blue, and being egged on by the audience chanting “Jerry!”, the show’s producers, and of course Jerry Springer himself, are simply better low class people than Trump because they knew their place.
“The only thing that separates him from the guests on my show is the fact that he had this delusion that he knew how to run the world,” said Springer.
“When in fact,” Springer added, “He knows he knows nothing about how to run a country.”
He summarized, “Of course there are similarities,” between Trump and his guests, except the participants on his show were clear minded enough to think “‘Gee, I don’t think I ought to be president.'”
Strangely, Springer previously poised himself as an enemy of the elite. In 2019, he claimed his show was a “rebellion” against the elite.
It appears Springer now realizes his show was enjoyed by those elitists. It allowed them to feel superior to the people throwing chairs, and that sense of superiority was easily transferred to Trump, even after he became the 45th President of the United States.
