Howard Stern says Trump really didn’t want to be president

Howard Stern, SiriusXM radio host, says Donald Trump didn’t actually want to be president.

“I firmly believed that Donald did not want to run for president, I don’t think it was serious, I don’t think he wanted to be the president,” Stern shared with Steve Colbert on “The Late Show” Tuesday night. Colbert had Stern on for the entirety of his show.

“I knew him. He had a great life at Mar-a-Lago. He was running around town. He played golf. He had a good time,” Stern continued.

Stern said Trump was trying to negotiate more money from NBC for “The Apprentice” and ran for president as a tactic to get a raise.

.@HowardStern speaks on Donald Trump, who has been a guest on his radio show several times:

“I firmly believed that Donald did not want to run for president, I don’t think it was serious, I don’t think he wanted to be the president.” pic.twitter.com/ugNHhj8RMx

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) May 22, 2019

Stern was on the show promoting his new book, “Howard Stern Comes Again,” a collection of some of his most interesting interviews.

Stern said Trump appears 11 times in the book and called him one of his top five guests of all time.

“He was wild — I thought I was wild,” Stern said to Colbert. “A great guest because he would say anything that came into his mind. He was completely unfiltered. He was talking about his daughter (Ivanka Trump) being the most attractive woman he’d ever met and how much he thought she was hot. … It was wild every time.”

Stern also talked about Trump trying to get his endorsement when Trump was the Republican candidate. Stern says Trump to tried to get him to make an appearance at the Republican National Convention.

But Stern was a big Hillary Clinton supporter. He said he tried to get her on his show and believes if she had, it may have had an impact.

“I thought if I did an interview with Hillary, that she would reach a new audience,” he said. “There are a million questions I would have asked her, that I think would have humanized her.”

He also offered advice to the Democratic candidates for 2020, saying they should go on Fox News, as Pete Buttigieg did.

And as far as which Dem he’d like to get on his show, he said Joe Biden has had a fascinating life and Bernie Sanders was a big hero for speaking up for him when the FCC constantly fining him in the 1990s.