Donald Trump Is “A Colossal A**hole,” Jeffrey Katzenberg Says; Hasn’t Yet Reached Out To Taylor Swift To Endorse “Decent” Joe Biden
06.05.2024 - 07:25
/ deadline.com
Jeffrey Katzenberg is a man known for choosing his words very carefully most of the time, and tonight the WndrCo boss was pretty candid when it came to Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
“I’ve known Donald Trump for 50 years,” Katzenberg told a well-heeled West Hollywood crowd on Sunday of first meeting the former president and 2024 GOP de facto nominee via his father back in the 1970s. “The only thing I can say is he was a colossal asshole then and nothing has really changed.”
“I’ve known Joe Biden for 40 years, maybe 45 years,” the Biden/Harris campaign co-chair added in contrast. “He is actually one of the most decent human beings I know.”
Calling the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host a “catastrophe on a level that I don’t think people have fully paid attention to,” Katzenberg went on to give Trump the severe backhanded compliment of almost always openly saying “what he’s thinking and what he is going to do.”
To that end, citing Trump’s recent wide-ranging interview with TIME, longtime Democrat Katzenberg made a comparison between the much indicted GOP leader’s ever increasing harsh rhetoric and plans for a second term and the horrors of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
“When I was in high school, we were studying Third Reich Germany and the rise of Hitler, and over the holiday, our teacher suggested to the class that, to the degree which we could, please go home and talk to your grandparents,” Katzenberg told the poolside Axios gathering tonight on the eve of Milken Institute conference. “Ask them, what did they read? “What did they see? What did they hear? What they do?”
“In the case of my family, on my mom’s side, they came from France and on my dad’s side, from Germany and they all said exactly the same thing,” the