Dr. Phil Spoke At Trump Rally Because Harris Ignored Him

Dr. Phil McGraw got here below fireplace a couple of weeks in the past after he railed in opposition to variety, fairness and inclusion throughout a speech at Donald Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally — and now he’s telling Piers Morgan he solely spoke on the occasion as a result of Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign ignored him.

“That was an act of rebel on my half,” McGraw instructed Morgan in an interview launched Tuesday. “I requested 25-plus occasions to talk to Kamala Harris. I provided to provide the similar speech at a Harris rally.”

McGraw stated he would have fortunately crossed off Trump’s title and changed it with Harris’ had he been given the chance to talk in entrance of her supporters.

Nonetheless, it’s presumable it wouldn’t have gone over nicely, particularly contemplating how McGraw criticized DEI initiatives throughout his MSG speech, saying that America was “constructed on exhausting work” and “not on DEI.”

The TV persona additionally insisted to Morgan that his speech didn’t imply he endorsed Trump, even though talking at a political rally for a candidate working for workplace is, in most individuals’s eyes, the very definition of an endorsement.

McGraw additionally dubiously claimed {that a} day after he spoke on the Trump rally, a Harris staffer acquired involved about probably talking at considered one of her rallies.

“I stated proper again, ‘Completely, inform me when and the place to be, and I’ll deliver a transcript of the speech and provides it at a Harris rally,’” he recalled telling the staffer. “And he or she answered accordingly — crickets. Never heard one other phrase as soon as they came upon I used to be severe.”

JHB reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for remark, however nobody instantly responded.

You’ll be able to see McGraw and Morgan talk about the MSG speech under.

McGraw’s reasoning for talking on the Trump rally incited loads of snarky remarks on X, previously referred to as Twitter.