ABBY PHILLIP: I want to just ask you, Charlamagne, I mean, you made some waves in a recent interview saying that you regret endorsing Joe Biden. Why?
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: It's not that I regret endorsing Joe Biden. It’s just that, you know, I think that we can all get burned, you know, by politicians. Because when I say endorsing, like, you know, I put my name and reputation on the line with my listeners, and when my listeners feel like he didn't deliver they come back to me, and they say “Hey, man you’re the one who told us to vote for Joe Biden. You’re the one who told us to vote for Kamala Harris.” So I care about my listeners and, you know, what my listeners think. But I do wanna say that, you know, I think that President Biden historically, has been a- lack of a better word, a shitty elected official. But, you know, Donald Trump is the end of democracy as we know it.
PHILLIP: So you’d vote for Biden again?
CHARLAMAGNE: I'm not saying either or. But I think, you know, since you all ask answers, ‘cause that's what y’all do on CNN. You like to ask answers, like you ask
PHILLIP: What I mean, it’s…
CHARLAMAGNE: What I’m saying is, you ask is- if Donald Trump was black, you know, would he get locked up? You know the answer to that.
PHILLIP: But I mean, I don’t know the answer to tha-- so you are gonna vote for Joe Biden?
CHARLAMAGNE: I think it’s simple and plain. Like, you know, if you know, um…Donald Trump is the end of democracy as we know it. I mean, I don't know what to tell people. And I know it sounds, when you say that now, in 2024 you’ve heard it so much because every time, you know, there's a Republican candidate people say “oh, it’s the end of democracy, you know, uh- he’s the anti”- people go so far as to say “oh, he's the antiChrist”. But this is one of those times where, you know, it really, actually, positively is true.