Howard Stern said former President Donald Trump “got charged up” by seeing him “discussed on all his conservative media” after the shock jock declared last week that he was proud to be “woke.”
“My thought was — What?” Stern said on his SiriusXM show Monday in response to Trump’s social media post denouncing his former friend as a “broken weirdo.”
“Imagine you got to be the 45th president of the United States and you’re sitting and writing about Howard Stern,” the radio host said Monday.
Stern’s comments were reported by the news site Mediaite.
“You know, all of a sudden Trump saw me being discussed on all his conservative media things and he got charged up,” according to Stern, who took issue with Trump calling him “disloyal.”
“And I’m disloyal? I stole the excitement for a minute or two,” Stern said.
Trump posted a comment on his Truth Social platform in which he ripped the self-described “King of All Media.”
“The real Howard Stern is a weak, pathetic, and disloyal guy, who lost his friends and MUCH of his audience,” Trump — a former and frequent guest on Stern’s raucous radio show — wrote on Truth Social.
“I did his show many times in the good old days, and then he went woke, and nobody cares about him any longer,” he continued.
The shock jock’s “influence is gone, and without that, he’s got NOTHING,” Trump vented about the reed-thin funnyman.
“Just a broken weirdo, unattractive both inside and out, trying like hell to be relevant!” he continued.
Trump reacted to a monologue by Stern in which the radio host responded to a critic on YouTube who lamented his leftward shift.
“I am woke, motherf–ker, and I love it!” Stern said last week.
“By the way, I kind of take that as a compliment, that I’m woke,” Stern said Monday.
“If woke means I can’t get behind Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender or I’m for the vaccine, dude, call me woke as you f–king want.”
The radio host publicly cut ties with another former friend, Bill Maher, this week after the comedian took aim at Stern’s second marriage to Beth Ostrosky.
In May 2020, Stern said he “hates” those who voted for the former real estate developer.
In April, Stern sided with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney after her endorsement deal with Bud Light prompted right-leaning celebrities such as Kid Rock and Travis Tritt to declare a boycott of the Anheuser-Busch brand.
Stern’s newfound wokeness comes after years of getting laughs with offensive remarks, including fat-shaming “Precious” star Gabourey Sidibe in 2010.
“There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen,” he said on his Sirius show, according to the Daily Telegraph. “She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s never going to be in another movie.”
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