Comedian Bill Maher declared in an interview about the second Trump administration entering the White House at the end of this month, “I’m hoping for the best,” and “I’m not going to hate anything in advance.” However, if something ‘serious’ happens, it will be discussed on air.
“I’m not going to shoo away every rabbit like I did in my first term,” Maher said of President-elect Trump during an appearance on CNN’s “The Lead” on Friday.
“He’s a weird guy who says a lot of weird things, and I wouldn’t hate anything. I just do my best. And then if something serious happens, I’ll comment on it,” he told CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
Maher, a strong critic of Trump, previously said that the situation for voters could worsen if the Republican candidate wins the 2024 presidential election. The comedian predicted that he would lose to Vice President Harris last November. Trump eventually won and swept all seven battleground states.
After the election, he criticized Democrats, saying they lost both Congress and the White House because of their “aggressive anti-common sense agenda.”
Maher said Friday that during his weekly monologue on his HBO “Real Time” show, he will discuss Trump’s latest ideas, including talk about buying Greenland and making Canada the 51st state of the United States.
“It’s perfect for comedy, but it’s not going to be taken seriously,” he told CNN.
Maher also doubled down on his previous claims that President Biden is too old to be commander-in-chief and that he should leave office sooner in the 2024 presidential election to allow for a public Democratic convention.
“I felt I could make that claim because for a long time I was the only person on television who had consistently criticized age discrimination. I have been saying for years that age discrimination is the last acceptable bias we can have in this country,” Maher said Friday.
“You can always make jokes about age and accuse people of being too old. Like I said, it depends. “Some people act like they are 100 years old even when they are 70 years old, while others act like they are 40 years old,” he added. “But this is a case where Biden is too old.”
