Johan Derksen makes mincemeat of Renze Klamer. He finds the brand new talk show host of RTL 4 very unnatural as a presenter. “He plays a wrought-up role.”
Where the own opinion of a talk show host is normally subordinate, Renze Klamer does not exactly hide his. According to Story boss Guido den Aantrekker, he is very left and very woke. At the moment Renze is especially annoyed by the protesting farmers. He says that they even make him ‘nauseous’.
Vicious Renze
It disturbs Johan Derksen immensely how Renze behaves. He’s made very much, according to the Today Inside star. “What did disturb me: that boy who does that talk show on 4, what’s that boy’s name? Renze, yes. I have nothing against Renze, you know. He also seems like a very nice boy, but he lets himself be sewn up by his editors.”
He continues: “You can occasionally hear and see in that program that it is not Renze the way he is characterologically, but that it is a worked-up Renze who then suddenly tries to do very hard, vicious interviews for the ratings. Wilfred is very good at that, but Renze does not master that.”
“He plays a part!”
It does not suit Renze at all to play the razor-sharp interviewer, says Johan. “The friendly Renze then suddenly plays a role that does not suit him and that is very uncomfortable to watch.”
Johan thinks that types like Renze don’t understand the farmers’ feelings either. “There is a very big cultural difference between the countryside and the Randstad. It’s easy for those people at those talk show tables from the Randstad to talk. They think it is a shame, because in their luxury apartment (…) they don’t know what farm life is all about.”
Flag upside down
Renze is annoyed, among other things, by the fact that farmers hang up flags on highways. Johan thinks that flag protest is logical. “Farmers are people who work very hard, never have a day off, are busy from early in the morning until late at night and can never go on holiday. Those people are just being liquidated now, aren’t they?”
Those flags can’t hurt at all, says Johan. “I think that’s a very peaceful way of protesting. I don’t have a flag, but otherwise I would have hung it upside down by the front door.”
Coffee with Johan
Coffee with Johan, the online section in which Johan makes his statements: