
Stern, who maintained a friendship with Trump and frequently hosted him on his show before he entered politics, supported Clinton in 2016 and President Biden in the 2020 White House race. “Trump got to be president, and he lost by 3 million votes,” Stern said. Then-candidate Trump won the Electoral College vote in 2016 but lost the popular vote to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. It is rigged - except it’s rigged for assholes,” Stern said. “We have a system, as President Trump said, the system is rigged.

Stern also railed against Texas’s controversial law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. “You had the cure and you wouldn’t take it.” And I’m really of mind to say, ‘Look, if you didn’t get vaccinated you got COVID, you don’t get into a hospital.'” “So like, if you have a heart attack or any kind of problem, you can’t even get into the E.R. “The other thing I hate is that all these people with COVID who won’t get vaccinated are in the hospitals clogging it up,” the radio host, dubbing vaccine opponents “imbeciles,” exclaimed. I want my freedom to live,” Stern, 67, said. However, public health professionals and proponents of the inoculation argue that vaccines protect both the recipient and the general population from spreading disease. Opponents of the vaccine argue that it is a matter of personal freedom what substances they are allowed to put in their body. It is now the dominant strain in the U.S. Efforts to stamp out coronavirus have been complicated by the spread of the highly contagious delta variant first found in India.

as the country continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy remains an issue in the U.S. You had to get a mumps vaccine,” Stern said. “As I remember, when I went to school, you had to get a measles vaccine. “When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated?” Stern said to listeners on his eponymous SiriusXM program. Radio host Howard Stern blasted opponents of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, stating that “nutjobs” are trampling on his “freedom to live.”
