Peter Werbe
Peter Werbe
Peter Werbe, who has been hosting a phone-in radio talk show on Sunday nights on WRIF-FM since 1970, says he'll quit if Donald Trump is elected president.
Werbe, 76, a long time fixture of Detroit radio, said he was hoping to host his show, "Nightcall," through at least 2017 to mark a half-century.
But he says a Trump presidency would change all that. He's obviously not a big fan of the GOP hopeful. (See video below)
"if Trump gets elected, I'm quitting," he told Deadline Detroit Thursday night at a 50th anniversary celebration of the left-leaning Fifth Estate newspaper at the Detroit Historical Museum. "I know at my age they call it 'retired.' But I have no intention of retiring. So, this would be absolutely quitting."
He says he just couldn't stomach discussing the Trump presidency every week on the 11 p.m.-2 a.m.show.
"I just couldn't deal with coming in there every Sunday night and dealing with President Trump and the latest outrage or war or lie or whatever."
Besides hosting the show, Werbe works as the public affairs director for the local Greater Media stations, which include WRIF, WCSX and 105.1 FM. He says he would leave that post if he quits the Sunday night show.
Werbe writes for the Fifth Estate, which started as an underground paper in the 1960s and now publishes four times a year as an "anarchist" magazine. He was one of the original writers in the 1960s.
If he quits, he said he'd spend more time working for The Fifth Estate.
