Though Bill Maher swears he “didn’t go MAGA” throughout his go to to the White Home, he appears to have a brand new favourite dinner host.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comic shared his “guide report on my go to to the White Home,” after their mutual pal Kid Rock beforehand extended the invitation out of their shared perception “that there’s gotta be one thing higher than hurling insults from 3,000 miles away.”
“Lemme first say to the entire individuals who handled this prefer it was some form of summit assembly, you’re ridiculous… like I used to be gonna signal a treaty or one thing,” he mentioned. “I’ve no energy, I’m a f—ing comic, and he’s probably the most highly effective chief on this planet.
“I’m not the chief of something, besides possibly a contingent of centrist-minded individuals who suppose there’s obtained to be a greater strategy to run this nation than hating one another each minute,” added Maher.
Maher mentioned he “by no means felt I needed to stroll on eggshells round him,” including: “And truthfully, I voted for Clinton and Obama, however I might by no means really feel comfy speaking to them the best way I used to be capable of speak to Donald Trump. That’s simply the way it went down, make of it what you’ll.”
“I’m simply reporting precisely what I noticed over two and a half hours,” he famous. “I went into the mine, and that’s what’s down there. A loopy individual doesn’t stay within the White Home. An individual who performs a loopy individual on TV loads lives there, which I do know is f—ed up. It’s simply not as f—ed up as I assumed it was.”
Along with difficult him on subjects like Iran, Gaza, the Syrian refugee disaster and his proposed third time period, Maher mentioned he heard Trump admit he misplaced the 2020 election.
“I don’t keep in mind precisely what we had been speaking about however it will need to have been one thing concerning the 2020 election, as a result of I do know he used the phrase ‘misplaced,’” he recalled. “And I distinctly keep in mind saying, ‘Wow, I by no means thought I’d hear you say that.’ He didn’t get mad. He’s way more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
Maher clarified he nonetheless doesn’t “have an excellent feeling” concerning the Trump administration “and might be vital about a variety of what he’s doing … However I additionally suppose he now understands that I’ve a job to do.”
He praised Trump for giving him a “beneficiant period of time, and a willingness to hear and settle for me as a attainable pal despite the fact that I’m not MAGA, which was the purpose of the dinner.”
“Trump was gracious and measured, and why he isn’t that in different settings, I don’t know and I can’t reply and it’s not my place to reply,” added Maher. “I’m simply telling you what I noticed, and I wasn’t excessive.”
