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Days after publicly endorsing Donald Trump for president in the 2024 election, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy isn't mincing words when reacting to Trump winning the presidency for a second time.
As Americans all across the country — and people all across the world — were glued to their TVs from Tuesday, November 5 to the early morning hours of Wednesday, November 6, Portnoy, 47, took to Instagram as the election results were coming in.
Trump "didn't just win," the controversial podcast host told his 5.2 million followers in the social media video, which he captioned "Knee jerk Reactions to Donald Trump demolishing Kamala Harris."
"He won for fun: he won the electoral [vote], he won the popular vote, he got more votes than last time he was president," Portnoy declared, adding: "Just a total ringing endorsement for the Republicans and Donald Trump and an indictment against the Democrats."
Portnoy opined that the reason Trump received more votes this time around is because, for independent voters like himself, "Democrats gave us no choice."
He went on to claim that Harris' campaign was one filled with "arrogance" and "moral superiority," denouncing the way, in his view, Trump supporters have been treated by Democrats.
"You're a Nazi, you're Hitler, you're garbage [if you support Trump]," he mimicked.
Portnoy recently revealed that he turned down Harris' requests to appear on several Barstool podcasts, while also explaining he wouldn't have had Trump on, either — due to, in his own words, his own lack of political knowledge.
"My issue with Trump or Kamala ... if you're asking people things and they're answering them and you don't know if the answers are true or not and you don't have enough information to push back if you just kind of accept if you're doing that, that I don't like. It's a real fine line," Portnoy stated on The Unnamed Show last week.
"I'm just not deep enough, and you don't know what to believe, so you don't want to just be lied to and not have ammunition," he said.
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