Bill Maher visits the White House and has dinner with Trump

Not long ago Bill Maher went to the White House to schmooze and dine with, yes, Donald Trump. Trump signed a list of bad names that he called Maher over the years, showed him the small room off the Oval Office which Clinton and Monica Lewinsky made famous, and even gave Maher a MAGA hat.

Overall, Maher found Trump to be a fairly congenial host, not like his public image as a horrible person.  Maher says that Trump was “much more self-aware than he lets on in public,” and even admitted that he lost the 2020 election. He even solicited political advice from Maher about Iran and the bomb.

At about 7:10, Maher lists some things that Trump did that Maher agreed with (“biological men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports,” etc.)  Maher didn’t pander, and Trump didn’t dominate, and even laughed (have you ever seen Trump laugh).

He concludes: “A crazy person doesn’t work in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on t.v. a lot lives there, which I know is fucked up, but it’s not as fucked up as I thought it was.” But Maher certainly lists all the bad things that Trump did and is doing.  I’ll let you listen to the conclusion, which is thought-provoking. Maher concludes, “I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”

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