Piers Morgan was blown away by former President Donald Trump’s controversial Madison Square Garden rally, comparing it to a rock festival and Trump to Mick Jagger.
Morgan was a guest on this week’s edition of Mediaite’s new Press Club podcast, hosted by Aidan McLaughlin, to discuss the media, the upcoming election, and more.
McLaughlin first asked him about the bombshell rally that dominated headlines all week and sent Trump and his campaign scrambling to do damage control:
Let’s talk about the election and Trump. I want to first get your take on the big story this week, which was his rally at Madison Square Garden that caused a lot of controversy. What did you make of it? We were both there.It was the first rally I’ve ever been to. For any politician.It was the first rally I’ve ever been to for Trump.I’ve not been to anyone’s rally. But I happened to be in New York. It’s interesting because I wrote a column about it for The New York Post a few months ago, and I compared him to Mick Jagger. I said that he’s basically the frontman of a rock band. And that’s exactly what happened. And of course, it was ironic that the first time I see him, he’s at Madison Square Garden where The Stones have played. Everyone has played Madison Square Garden. It’s where Marilyn sang Happy Birthday, Mr.
President. The Pope has been there. Muhammad Ali fought there. So for Trump, this has been a genuine dream.But for me, having compared him to Jagger, now I’m watching this political rock star. Whether you love him or hate him, he’s a rock star and he’s performing like a front man of a band. It was like being at a six-hour rolling festival where he’s the headline act. And before that, you get all the warmup acts. The crowd is there for the fervor, the energy. They’re there for the warmup acts, but then they want the main event and then they want to go and buy all the merchandise. It’s like being at a rock concert.The warmup acts got criticism for racist jokes and some comments that were pretty extreme. Kamala Harris got compared to the anti-Christ. What did you make of that?I think the Tony Hinchcliffe scandal was interesting because I watched the Tom Brady roast in which he says far worse things and nobody seemed to mind. He was incredibly racist in that. And you think, okay, so nobody cared that he was doing that at the Tom Brady Roast. So it was more the environment that he was operating. Hinchcliffe does that. He’s a roaster. And it’s just interesting to me, it’s not even a double standard, but if you’re going to unleash him at a political rally like that, you’re going to have to expect blowback when he says something blatantly racist, which he did.
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