Howard Stern responds to ‘woke’ claims: ‘I take that as a compliment’

Howard Stern has responded to complaints that he went “woke”, telling listeners he’s more than happy to be linked to the progressive term.

“I kind of take that as a compliment, that I’m ‘woke’,” he said on his SiriusXM show this week, after yet another internet personality used the word to describe him.

“To me, the opposite of woke it being asleep,” he continued.

“And if woke means I can’t get behind [Trump], which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender, or I’m for the vaccine – dude, call me woke as you f***ing want.”

Howard Stern is happy for you to call him ‘woke’. (Getty Images)

The term ‘woke’ has been villainised in recent

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