Bill Maher shared his insights on Donald Trump with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday, saying he believes the president actually loathes “boring *ss kissers.”
Maher said that even though Trump continues to attack him with insults and tried to prevent him from getting the Mark Twain Prize, he’d still accept a dinner invitation.
“I’d rather be involved. You know, I’d rather have the conversation going. I still want to talk to him,” Maher said.
“If he if he invited you to dinner, you’d still, you’d go?” Zakaria asked.
“Totally, absolutely. Because look, not talking guarantees you nothing. And he is not a guy with a lot of fixed opinions. You know, people do change his mind all the time.”
Maher continued:
The first time I was with him, I tried to tell him that I thought the Obama [Iran] deal should have at least been given a chance, but he was fine talking about it. Didn’t agree. That doesn’t mat — it’s water under the bridge, fait accompli, we’re in a different place. But yeah, he does not read the briefing books. Everything is done by, “People are saying,” so, be one of the people saying. You know, he needs more people like me talking to him, not less. He, I think he actually doesn’t like the fact that all he has around him are boring *ss kissers. He’s that guy who wants you to kiss his *ss, but then he doesn’t respect you when you do, you know?
Maher added, “People don’t fear him like they once did.”
“So, you really think this is peak Trump and we’re just going to see him decline?” Zakaria asked.
“I don’t know what he can do,” Maher said. “I mean, if it really was going to be as bad as I thought it was going to be 10 years ago, he would have shut down The New York Times. The New York Times has never stopped printing everything it ever wanted to say about him. I have never pulled one punch, which is why he got mad at me again. You know, he had on somebody recently was interviewing him and they mentioned the No Kings day. And he said, ‘If I was a king, I wouldn’t be talking to you!”
“He’s funny. You got to give him that,” Maher said.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
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