Nikki Haley Says She’s Voting for Trump but Hasn’t Forgotten He’s a Massive Prick

Nikki Haley announced on the debut episode of her new podcast that, while she’ll be casting her vote for Donald Trump come November, it’s not because she thinks he’s a great guy or anything like that. In fact, she pretty much finds him to be a total asshole, and has not at all forgotten the many shitty things he did to her on the campaign trail.

Speaking to listeners of Nikki Haley Live, the former South Carolina governor, who dropped out of the primary last March, explained her stance, saying: “So I said exactly what I thought about Joe Biden, about Donald Trump and about Kamala Harris. If I thought either one of those candidates were great, I wouldn’t have run for office. So that is where we are. I don’t take anything back. I stand by that. And so you’re going to see me be honest on the show, as well. But I think that it’s also important to say that on this show, you’re not going to hear me say glowing things about Donald Trump’s personality. I have issues with him, as well.”

She added: “I have not forgotten what he said about me. I’ve not forgotten what he said about my husband or his, you know, deployment time or his military service. I haven’t forgotten about his or his campaign’s tactics from, you know, putting a bird cage outside our hotel room to calling me ‘bird brain.’ I haven’t forgotten any of that.”

As a reminder, in February, Trump questioned why Haley’s husband, Michael Haley, was not on the campaign, musing to supporters, “What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone. He knew. He knew.” In response, Haley wrote on X: “Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about.” Several months before that, in an apparent reference to Trump’s exceedingly derogatory name for her, the campaign reportedly left this outside of Haley’s hotel room:

Prior to dropping out of the race, Haley called Trump “unhinged,” “not qualified,” and unlikely to abide by the Constitution. She also said the prospect of making Trump the party’s nominee “is like suicide for our country.”

All of which one would think would disqualify Trump in Haley’s mind, or, at the very least, prevent her from using her vote on him. But of course, that is not what happened. Instead, the former governor not only endorsed Trump in July, but urged her delegates to vote for him at the Republican National Convention, something she did not need to do. But apparently she maintains that he’s a real prick, and would like people to know that.

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