Howard Stern Responds To 1993 Blackface Sketch Posted By Donald Trump, Jr.

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As racial tensions rise to an all-time high throughout the United States, Donald Trump, Jr. has decided to take this time to reignite his family’s feud with Howard Stern.

Trump tweeted out a clip of the radio personality in a sketch from a 1993 pay-per-view New Year’s Eve special. In the sketch, Stern was doing an impression of Ted Danson—a white man—in blackface, while Sherman Hemsley portrayed Whoopi Goldberg, who was Danson’s girlfriend at the time. Stern also uses the n-word countless times throughout the sketch.

Following the resurfacing of this old skit, Howard Stern addressed the backlash on his SiriusXM radio show this morning. He explained that the sketch was a parody of Goldberg and Danson’s decision to wear blackface during the 1993 Friars Club roast. Even so, he says that he regrets the decision and has since evolved.

“The s**t I did was f***ing crazy,” Stern said according to Deadline. “I’ll be the first to admit. I won’t go back and watch those old shows; it’s like, who is that guy. But that was my shtick, that’s what I did and I own it. I don’t think I got embraced by Nazi groups and hate groups. They seemed to think I was against them too. Everybody had a bone to pick with me.”

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When discussing the old sketch and how it got brought back to light, Stern went on to say that the “big headline” is his 1993 antics, when it should really be how the Trump administration is ruining the country.

“If I had to do it all over again, would I lampoon Ted Danson, a white guy in blackface? Yeah, I was lampooning him and saying, I’m going to shine a light on this. But would I go about it the same way now? Probably not,” he explained “At the same point, I will say, it f***ing distresses me that Donald Trump Jr, and Donald, themselves won’t go into psychotherapy and change. Why not change the way you’re approaching things because, wearing a mask is not a bad thing. Telling people the actual size of the crowd at your inauguration is okay. Attacking me during the coronavirus and Black Lives Matter is absolutely f***ing crazy.”