'I'd have voted for Trump over Hillary Clinton,' admits Ivan Yates
But the broadcaster also admits he now is now “glad to see the back of Trump”. The former TD-turned-media personality interviewed Mr Trump on Newstalk when he visited Co Clare in early 2016, before he was elected. “My attitude is that, first of all, he won, and that was fine,” points out Yates, who also spent nearly four months in America on the election trail in 2016. “I think that the worst of Trump came after last year’s election. "He didn’t handle himself at all well in terms of accepting the result and then the whole episode with the Capitol, he went from bad to worse.”