Why Ellen DeGeneres won’t have Donald Trump on her show
Ellen DeGeneres has opened up about why she won’t have the US president on her show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On Wednesday, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly sat down with DeGeneres to promote her upcoming talk show, Today with Megyn Kelly.
During the interview, she asked Kelly if she would ever have the president on her show.
Kelly, who Trump publicly attacked numerous times during his 2016 presidential campaign, said, “Definitely.”
“I would not say ‘no’ to the sitting president of the United States,” Kelly replied.
Kelly asked DeGeneres if she would reject him as a guest.
“Yeah,” the comedian said immediately. “I would not have him on my show.”
She continued: “He is who he is and he has enough attention. He has his Twitter account and he has ways to get his message across. There is nothing I’m going to say to him that’s going to change him, and I don’t want to give him a platform, because it validates him.”
DeGeneres, who has welcomed Republican politicians on her show like John McCain and former President George W. Bush, has been critical of many of Trump’s policies.
“For me to have someone on the show, I have to at least admire them in some way,” she explained to Kelly. “And I can’t have someone that I feel is not only dangerous for the country — and for me personally as a gay woman — but to the world. He’s dividing all of us … I just don’t want him on the show.”
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