Bill Maher praises Trump as ‘graceful’ during his visit of the White House

New rule: if I am going to criticize the president of the United States, I will eat with the president of the United States. That may just as well have been one of the no-no to start the episode of Friday of “Real Time with Bill Maher”, who opened with the host of his visit of March 31 at the White House to meet President Trump. Maher, who has been a pronounced critic of the supreme commander since his first presidential term, told the evening in a long monologue at the top of the show.

“Let me say first to all the people who treated this as if it were a kind of top meeting,” you are ridiculous, “Maher started.” As if I was going to sign a treaty or something? I have no power. I am a damn comedian. ”

Maher then praised that he led the president to sign a sheet of paper with a list of countless insults that Trump had imposed against Maher over the years, including “Low-Life” and “His show is dead.” But the tone of the host changed shortly thereafter.

“The man I met is not the man who tweeted a lot of annoying nonsense the night before dinner about how this dinner was a bad idea and what a disturbed bastard I was,” said Maher. “Only for starters: he laughs. I have never seen him laughing in public. But he does that, even with himself. He is not fake.”

Maher noticed a striking moment while he toured the White House: ‘I no longer know what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 elections. Because I know he clearly used the world’ lost ‘. And I said, “Wow, I never thought I would hear you say that.” He didn’t get angry. He is much more self -conscious than he leaves in public. “

The host also shared that he remained “not Maga” and that the conversation dealt with his own criticism of the Trump -Admin, including the collapse of President Obama’s 2015 with Iran to limit the country’s nuclear program. He also said that he praised Trump for the signaling of Dei who “gone too far,” legislation against transatletes and continuous support for Israel’s military action in Gaza. Maher noted that his pick -up meals of the privateness of the president were “emblematically why the Democrats are not so popular today.”

“Look, I understand. It doesn’t matter who he is during a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I just consider it a positive that this person exists. Because everything I never liked was him – I swear against God – absent, at least on this night with this guy with this kid with this guy said with this guy as this guy said with this guy as this guy as this guy as this guy,” “Grocirean”. ‘He usually sent the conversation to:’ What do you think of this? “I know: your mind is blown. ‘

“A crazy person does not live in the White House. A person who plays a madman on TV lives there a lot that I know is messed up,” said Maher. “It’s just not as ruined as I thought it was.”

Maher had previously plagued that he had much to share about his meeting on March 31 with Trump, sPull a message on X The next morning to say: “Hey everyone, thanks for every interest in my dinner with the president last night – I promise that everything will be revealed on the next [‘Real Time’] … because it is today April 1, nobody would believe what I said today! “

The dinner was organized by musician Kid Rock, an old supporter of Trump and one of his more pronounced fans from the entertainment industry. Kid Rock was present for the meeting between Maher and the president.

Since the meeting of Maher with Trump, the administration has had to deal with increased criticism of raising mass rates against all American trading partners, a movement that led to historical daily collapses at the global stock market. After announcing the policy on 2 April, President Trump has since had a 90 -day break at the command of global rates, although the manager has increased the policy against China to 145%, stimulating retribution rates from the country and the two largest economies in the world are placed in a trade war.

Maher acknowledged the change in the news cycle at the top of his monologue: “He brought rates for every country in the world and of course the stock market dived. And the next day he went,” well, I didn’t say “says Simon.”

Guests in this week of “Real Time” were Steve Bannon, Piers Morgan and Josh Rogin.