Dr. Phil Spoke At Trump Rally Because Harris Ignored Him | EUROtoday

Dr. Phil McGraw got here underneath hearth a couple of weeks in the past after he railed towards range, fairness and inclusion throughout a speech at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden 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 rebellion on my part,” McGraw instructed Morgan in an interview launched Tuesday. “I requested 25-plus times to speak to Kamala Harris. I offered to give the identical speech at a Harris rally.”

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

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

The TV character additionally insisted to Morgan that his speech didn’t imply he endorsed Trump, even supposing 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 obtained involved about probably talking at one in all her rallies.

“I said right back, ‘Absolutely, tell me when and where to be, and I will bring a transcript of the speech and give it at a Harris rally,’” he recalled telling the staffer. “And she answered accordingly — crickets. Never heard another word once they found out I was serious.”

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

You can 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 known as Twitter.