Just weeks after Piers Morgan’s former friend
Donald Trump publicly ended their friendship by unfollowing him on
Twitter, the Good Morning
Britain presenter has spoken of his deep concern about the potential fallout from the US president’s handling of the
Coronavirus pandemic.
In a new interview with the Sunday Times (££), Piers also stated that Trump “doesn’t deserve” to be re-elected in November’s presidential
election.“Trump’s biggest Achilles heel has always been his complete inability to show empathy,” he tells the newspaper.
“Right now, I do not think he deserves to be re-elected.”
Piers then accuses the president of making things “deliberately worse” by “airing these stupid, crazy theories about detergents or urging people to ‘liberate’ themselves in Democrat states.”
“He is rousing people to view Democrat senators as tyrannical people,” he says.
“And they’re all heavily armed with semi-automatic weapons, and if, God forbid, they lose their jobs, have no income, are angry and are persuaded by Trump that his political opponents are being tyrannical, I can see some very ugly scenes. Aided and abetted by the president.
“And it’s shameful.”The presenter, who was always a vocal champion of Trump, now admits that he might have got it wrong.
“I found the hysteria about him, for a long time, ridiculously over the top and pathetic,” he says, before admitting: “I’m not sure it looks that way now.”
Last month, Piers called out Trump for his “senseless” coronavirus comments in his column in the Daily Mail.
Running under the headline ‘President Trump’s bats**t crazy coronavirus “cure” theories are not just shockingly senseless and stupid – they’re going to kill people’, it came after the president made a series of bizarre comments about how to treat the disease.
Trump told the assembled press: “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? By injection inside, or almost a cleaning.
“So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. Needless to say, do not inject yourself with bleach.” READ MORE: Piers Morgan Admits He Has ‘Taken Things Too Far’ In His Criticism Of Meghan Markle Amanda Holden 'Glad' People Are Seeing 'A Good Side' To Piers Morgan: 'I Adore Him' Piers Morgan Blasts Government's Apparent Ban On Ministers Appearing On Good Morning Britain