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Donald Trump is \u201can unserious man\u201d and a \u201csore loser\u201d who aspires to dictatorship, Vice President Kamala Harris<\/strong> warned the satellite radio host Howard Stern<\/strong> in a Tuesday afternoon appearance.<\/p>\n \u201cDonald Trump<\/strong> has this desire to be a dictator,\u201d Harris said. \u201cHe admires strongmen. And he gets played by them, because he thinks that they\u2019re his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n Harris made the comments on Stern\u2019s Sirius XM show as part of a breakneck media blitz that has also included recent stops on the podcast Call Her Daddy<\/em><\/a>, CBS News’ 60 Minutes<\/em> and The View<\/em>. The wide-ranging, sympathetic interview with Stern\u2014in which the former shock jock unequivocally pledged his vote to Harris\u2014covered topics from abortion and election denial to Harris\u2019 preferred breakfast cereals (Raisin Bran and Special K) and typical morning workout routine (30 minutes on the elliptical machine).<\/p>\n The two also returned repeatedly to the subject of Trump\u2019s character, which Stern knows firsthand as a former friend and fellow traveler<\/a> of the 45th president. \u201cHow could anyone justify any of this? I don’t get it, it’s madness,\u201d Stern said of Trump\u2019s behavior. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve known Donald Trump for so many years\u2014he was at my wedding and I always had a good time with him. But not as president of the United States.”<\/p>\n Stern has repeatedly pilloried Trump over his handling of issues including abortion and the Covid-19 pandemic, both of which cropped up in his conversation with Harris. Of abortion, Harris said, Trump \u201chand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court to do exactly what they did: Take away the right of an individual to make decisions about their own body.\u201d<\/p>\n The pair also discussed a damning new report<\/a> on Trump\u2019s relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/strong>. Trump, according to a new book<\/a> by journalist Bob Woodward<\/strong>, secretly sent Covid-19 test machines to Putin during the pandemic and has had private conversations with the Russian dictator as recently as this spring. (The Trump campaign has said the book contains<\/a> \u201cmade up stories.\u201d)<\/p>\n Trump \u201cadmires dictators,\u201d Harris said, and has promised \u201cto be a dictator on day one.\u201d Stern asked Harris if she would feel safe remaining in the US should Trump win; Harris dodged the question, saying instead that she is \u201cdoing everything I can\u201d to win the election.<\/p>\n But that battle has grown \u201csurreal,\u201d the vice president acknowledged, as her opponent continues to veer into conspiracies and untruths. Harris described feeling a sense of unreality during her September 10 debate with Trump, when the former president spouted a baseless internet rumor about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs. \u201cThis was a very serious moment to earn the votes of the American people,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd he was talking about things that were factually untrue and quite ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n The unscripted, hour-long appearance with Stern represented something of a deviation for Harris, who has historically kept the press at arm\u2019s length and has sat for only three TV interviews in the month of September. She plans to do twice as many in the first week and a half of October, according to the Washington Post<\/em>, which on Monday reported that Harris\u2019 sudden media blitz<\/a> was designed to engage voting blocs that haven\u2019t fully embraced the vice president.<\/p>\n To that end, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz<\/strong>, have hit a series of podcasts and other digital media ventures that don\u2019t typically make the campaign circuit, including Call Her Daddy<\/em>, All the Smoke,<\/em> and SmartLess<\/em>. Call Her Daddy<\/em> is the single most popular podcast among women in the US; All the Smoke<\/em> is a sports podcast aimed at Black men, and SmartLess<\/em> is a comedy podcast hosted by Jason Bateman<\/strong>, Sean Hayes,<\/strong> and Will Arnett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n