New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman suggested why former President Donald Trump might appear on former boxer Mike Tyson’s podcast.
Haberman, speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday, noted that Trump and Tyson are longtime allies of Trump, “actually sort of an advisor” to the athlete in the 1980s, who became one of his staunchest defense attorneys when the boxer was convicted of rape .
This Trump is per policyallegedly in talks to appear on “Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson,” is “not entirely surprising,” Haberman said in a video shared online Mediait.
It also served as a “reminder that Trump has this unique niche that he’s trying to address purely in terms of the cultural aspects of the country,” she added.
“He was a socialite, he was a celebrity. He was also kind of an athlete. And he was, or at least connected, to the world of wrestling, to the world of boxing,” she continued.
Trump’s campaign team has “long seen this as an advantage to exploit, particularly when trying to target men,” Haberman said, acknowledging that there is “a potential recipe for things to get a little complicated in an interview.” , but we will see.” .”