Trump regime courting Michael Savage, fringe radio host who claimed autism, PTSD, and depression are fake

Vice President Mike Pence and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt are appearing on Michael Savage’s radio program in the wake of criticism surrounding the administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Savage is a climate change denier who has used his radio program to attack people with autism, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression, and has advocated for killing “100 million” Muslims.

Savage has no credibility to talk about anything of substance, as Media Matters has documented. He’s called autism “a fraud” and “a racket”; said people with PTSD and depression are “losers”; advised people not to get flu shots because you can't trust the government; theorized that liberals have been driven insane because of seltzer bubbles; and claimed that the “asthma epidemic amongst minority children” is actually “a money racket” because “the children got extra welfare if they were disabled.” Like President Trump, Savage believes that manmade climate change is a “scam” and a hoax.

He has also pushed numerous conspiracy theories and has advocated killing “100 million” Muslims. The radio host once worked for MSNBC but was fired when he told a critical caller to "get AIDS and die.”

In 2008, he warned, “I fear that Obama will stir up a race war … in order to seize absolute power.”

Savage also claimed that Obama “wants to infect the nation with Ebola” and the then-president was gearing up the government to “fight a war against white people.” Savage accused Obama of engaging in “genocide” against the white race during the last year of Obama’s presidency.

Pence is scheduled to appear on Savage’s radio program The Savage Nation later today. He previously appeared on Savage’s program in early March and was urged by the radio host to limit immigration before the country turns into “a one-party state” like California. During that interview, Pence said that he knows how much Trump “appreciates and respects, and admires you and your voice in the national debate.”

Pruitt appeared on Savage’s June 1 program, where they both praised Trump’s decision to remove the United States from the Paris accord. During the interview, Savage falsely claimed that “much of the science today that’s being quoted” on climate change is “fake science.” Pruitt, a climate change denier, agreed with Savage by saying that the “American people deserve truth” and suggested there should be a debate about climate change science. Savage concluded the interview by thanking Pruitt for driving the debate “in the right direction.”

Savage said in February that he “sat with the president for well over an hour, alone” at Mar-a-Lago” and related that he told Trump “the story about global warming” by pushing junk science about climate change. (Savage's wife, Janet, is a member of the club.)

Trump has been a repeat guest on Savage’s program and told him (according to Savage) that “without you I wouldn’t be president.”