How does René van der Gijp look back on the big Today Inside interview with Geert Wilders? The football analyst is impressed, but also surprised. “He didn’t look at me!”
Geert Wilders has scored points in his supporters with his long-awaited performance in the talk show Today Inside. The leader of the PVV was able to show his human side – there was a lot of laughter at René van der Gijp – but he was also able to express his views on content. At one point he even clashed hard with Johan Derksen. “This is stupid!”
Gijp looks back
How does René van der Gijp look back on it? “Champions League, huh? I actually listened to it for ten minutes yesterday and it really is verbally Champions League. This afternoon I was also thinking about how it happened…’, he analyzes at the table Today Inside.
How come? “Look, what he doesn’t do… We’ve had Timmermans here, Caroline and Dilan. They will contact you. So when they talk, they reach out. Not him.”
Rutger Castricum: “Yes, he talks straight to himself.”
‘Don’t look at you’
René states that Wilders never looked at him for a moment. “So you hardly say anything back, because he doesn’t make contact. Only when you make contact do you realize when someone says something that makes you think: well, here he is hesitating or you know. But he doesn’t!”
Rutger: “Is he afraid of a reaction?”
René: “He doesn’t make contact and I think that when he looks at you, he looks right through you.”
Johan Derksen: “He is not afraid of anything.”
Witty
Rutger also thinks Wilders is a special portrait. “He is a control freak and Wilders does not want to be contradicted in the media.”
Johan: “He is so incredibly quick.”
They also point to Wilders’ performance in the SBS 6 election debate, where he joked to Frans Timmermans: “You can demand until you weigh an ounce and that will take a while.”
It causes hilarity in the VI studio.
Special man
René also finds Wilders’ debating attitude special. “Did you just see that when he talked about Timmermans, he didn’t look at him? He didn’t look at him.”
Johan: “No, he talks to himself, except when he told me I was stupid, then he looked at me.”
Wilfred: “Hahaha. And then he kept looking at you for a long time!”
René: “He is a very special man.”