Physicist Stephen Hawking had harsh words for Donald Trump and his legion of supporters during an interview on British television. But one subject he doesn't understand is the allure of Donald Trump . Hawking called Trump "a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator" and said he couldn't explain the popularity of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in an interview that aired Tuesday on ITV's Good Morning Britain. "There's still a very strong contingent of people who are in denial about climate change," Nye told CNN. H/T PoliticoEditor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

Source: Huffington Post May 31, 2016 18:56 UTC