Howard Stern On Hubbub Over Shock Jock Donning Blackface In ’90s: It’s Donald Trump Jr.’s Fault

Howard Stern, the shock jock who is never at a loss for words, was suddenly speechless on Monday morning after a slew of headlines over the weekend about old videos that emerged showing him dressed in blackface and using the N-word over and over.

In one clip, Stern, wearing minstrel-style makeup, is seen mocking actor Ted Danson, who wore blackface as a “joke” at a New York City Friar’s Club event in 1993. Danson was roasting his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg.

On his XM-Sirius radio show on Monday, Stern didn’t apologize. Instead, he said, “the big headline is this: and this is my fear in all of this. I was able to change my approach, and able to change my life and, you know, how I communicated. You know, if I had to do it over again, would I lampoon Ted Danson, a white guy in black face, doing, you know — yeah, I was lampooning him, saying, hey, f***, I’m going to shine a light on this, but, would I go about this the same way now? Probably not.”

Then Stern added: “Not probably. Wouldn’t.”

Before he looked inward, the self-crowned “King Of All Media” blamed Donald Trump Jr. for digging up the old videos. What the president’s son did: Retweet a Twitter post about the videos. Stern implied that President Trump was involved in the hit, too.