Dr. Phil admits he's not 'qualified to talk about politics' after promoting ICE raids
Dr. Phil McGraw insisted that he was not "qualified" to talk about politics just weeks after tagging along with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on migrants.
McGraw made the remarks in an interview with The New York Times that was published on Sunday.
"I don't think I'm qualified to talk about politics," he said despite becoming a MAGA mouthpiece in recent months.
After a lucrative career as a TV host, the once-licensed psychologist has baffled friends and acquaintances with his new path.
"Still an advocate, he says, for legal immigration and gay rights, Dr. Phil believes he has nonetheless lost friends from his bygone life in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he keeps a home," the paper noted. "He has failed publicly as never before, after a long talk-show reign at No. 1, for the high privilege of clawing into the living algorithm of ubiquitous news chatter."
"I don't have to be doing this at all," the TV personality quipped. "This is not a got-to job. This is a get-to job."
Over the weekend, HBO host Bill Maher confronted McGraw for partnering with the Trump administration.
"Why are you going on these ICE raids? I don't understand that," Maher said. "You're a guy who, for so many years, has been working to put families together, to bring families who are apart and heal them. And now you're going on raids with people who are literally separating families. Explain that."
"Now, that's bulls—!" McGraw exclaimed. "If you arrest somebody that's a citizen that has committed a crime, or is DUI with the child in the backseat, do you think they don't separate that family right then, right there?"