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 magazines 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.
Heres some of Lettermans best lines from the piece.
On interviewing Trump before he ran for president: He was a joke of a wealthy guy. We didnt take him seriously. Hed 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 Trumps outrageous statements: Im tired of people being bewildered about everything he says: I cant believe he said that. We gotta stop that and instead figure out ways to protect ourselves from him. We know hes 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: Lets get him in office, and well get things to go our way. Thats beginning to sound like an Alex Jones theory, but thatd be fun, wouldnt it?
On Alec Baldwin and comedy: Comedys one of the ways that we can protect ourselves.
Alec Baldwin deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sadly, hes 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, thats Alec Baldwin and Saturday Night Live. Its distracting the batter. Eventually Trumps 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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