Bill Maher Says It's OK To Like Trump Now

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Meet up in person, maybe it'll be different. Spoiler alert.
It was first good sign. Before I left for the Capitol,
I had my staff collect and print out this list
of almost sixty different insulting epithets that the President has
said about me, things like stupid, dummy, low life, dummy,

(00:20):
Slee's bag, sick said, stone cold crazy, really a dumb guy,
fired like a dog, his show.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Is dead sixty.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I brought this to the White House because I wanted
him to sign it, which he did, which he did
with good humor. And I know, as I say that,
millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. Oh my god, Bill,

(00:56):
are you going to say something nice about him? What
I'm going to do is what exactly what happened. You
decide what you think about it, and if that's not
enough pure Trump hate for you, I don't give a so.
So no, I didn't go maga, and to the President's credit,

(01:18):
there was no pressure too. After we left the Oval office,
he showed me the little room off the office, you know,
the one where Clinton used to okay, okay, well not anymore.
That's where they keep the merch now it is, and

(01:48):
he gave me a bunch of hats, but he didn't
ask me to take a picture in one, which I appreciated.
Now does Trump want respect? Of course, who doesn't. My
friend said to me, what are you gonna wear to
the White House? I said, I don't know, but I'm
not going to dress like Zelenski. I'll tell you that, okay,

(02:10):
just for starters. He laughs, including it himself, and it's
not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of forty years,
I know a fake laugh when I hear it, and
I thank you for them. No, okay. Example, in the

(02:31):
Oval office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents
and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness,
you know the best thing about him his hair? I said, well,
there was also that whole bringing down communism thing. Waiting
for the button next to the diet cokee button to

(02:53):
get pushed and I go through the trap door. But no,
he laughed it. I said to him at one point,
mister president, you know the dog. That's unusual in the
White House. He said, well, a lot of the presidents
they had a dog for political reasons. I said, no,
people love dogs, that's what that is. Oh yeah, okay,

(03:15):
that's true.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
What bunny, I'm telling you what happened. You love him now.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
At one point we were walking through his amazing it
is an amazing tour of the whole house, and I
don't remember exactly what we were talking about, but it
must have been something with the twenty twenty election, because
I know he used the word lost, and I distinctly
remember saying, wow, I never thought i'd hear you say that.
He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware and

(03:46):
he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
swear to God absent at least on this night with
this guy.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Okay, So with this comedian, it's interesting Bill Maher wants
to be described that's a comedian, despite the fact that
he's done a political talk show for fifteen years since
the beginning of this show, never mind the one that
he did have on many many years ago that was canceled,
and it was canceled over political correctness. He got in

(04:30):
hot water over a joke, but he wants to be
on this particular night. And again, I'm a fan, but
this is frustrating to me of Bill maher Hey, who
cares how he behaves. Had a dinner with a comedian.
Donald Trump didn't look at his dinner with you as

(04:50):
dinner with a comedian. He looked at it. You do
an hour long you sit down with elected officials, your guests,
they're political animals. Do you have anybody ever see the
episode where and Celebrity is the one where Ben Affleck
just read the riot actor some elected official from Wisconsin

(05:13):
and was calling him gross. Your show is is it funny? Yes?
You are there jokes, yes, but stop You and John
Stewart want to blur the line when it works for you.
You can't as for all of a sudden, Zelensky's the jokes,
Ask jokes, Clinton jokes. This was a conservative's comedy monologue. Why,

(05:38):
because that's where the action is right now. Chris Cuomo
decided that too. And how did you get an audience
full of people too? Did you let them know, hey,
this is what we're looking for tonight because we're gonna
need people to laugh. Because there was a lot of
people laughing at Trump, who have to have a level
of affection for him to laugh the way they did.

(06:00):
What they did there was an ooh and anger and rage,
and all of a sudden, we're still seeing Chris Murphy.
Can't sit through that, You go nuts, So how'd you
get that audience? And then he describes a man we've
all known, Donald Trump laughs, What a revelation. I didn't

(06:22):
deduce that as I watched him on Comedy Central roasts
a dozen years ago. Does he bill that's observant? Donald
Trump laughs, and he laughs at himself. No one of
those roasts was of him.