Dan Le Batard has long made it clear that he wouldn’t be sitting out this election cycle.
And considering that his liberal political leanings have long been established, by his own admission, that makes him a “loser” on Wednesday.
Still, rather than avoid the reality of Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris, Le Batard is taking it head on. Over the course of a nearly-three-minute monologue on Wednesday’s episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, the Meadowlark Media co-founder reflected on the election’s outcome and what he believes it says about the United States.
“If I am to discuss what people are here today for because they want liberal tears, and in some ways I do weep for my country liberally,” Le Batard said. “America has spoken and America has spoken resoundingly that what they want representing our country in office is that. Is everything that represents.
“Whether you want to say, ‘hate wins’ or whether you want to say, ‘the white man’s got a dynasty.’ And there was that one loss, the Washington Generals/Barack Obama, put on them one time. But they are the Harlem Globetrotters — they do not give up the power. And it’s a dynasty that will stay in power at least four more years because people have spoken and men have spoken. ‘You will not take this power from us. We will overtake the woman’s body and we’ll be a threat to minorities and others.'”
“If I view that as a threat, and then you view that as your preference, you become a threat. That’s the America that I live in.”
Dan shares his thoughts on Donald Trump’s “resounding” win of the 2024 election.
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Le Batard continued: “One of the reasons that it’s such a difficult day for me and people like me who are losers today is that if I view that as a threat and then you view that as your preference, you become a threat. Like that’s the America that I live in and I didn’t think it was the America that I lived in.”
The former Miami Herald columnist admitted to being “naive” about the likelihood of Trump’s reelection, despite having nearly a decades-worth of warning signs that should have told him otherwise. And considering that he was surprised that the polls projected the election to be as close as it was heading into it, that only made the “resounding” nature of Trump’s win all the more stunning to him.
“What America has decided today is that it’s OK with a king. It’s OK with a religious king,” Le Batard said. “No matter what he stuffs in the bible as a disguise that’s criminal, immoral, that’s near Jeffrey Epstein, that has credible accusations from 20-plus women, that is rapist-y and racist-y and just doesn’t like others — that wins today.
“And I can’t help but feel like I will keep fighting for these things, even if they lose and even if it becomes more threatening now in America than it was yesterday that you are a voice for these things that is appalled by what it is that was just elected into office.”
Considering that he was still at ESPN in 2016 — and in the lead up to the 2020 election, for that matter — this marks the first presidential election that Le Batard has been able to speak freely about on-air in real time. And despite its outcome and the polarizing presence of politics on his own show, it doesn’t appear that’s something that will be changing throughout Trump’s second term.
