Bill Maher fumed Friday at President Donald Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency over an aggressive administration move aimed at rolling back climate change regulations.
“Trump has always said it’s a hoax, the whole thing with climate change,” Maher said on “Real Time.” “He said, scientists, he says, are ‘stupid people.’ He says, the idea that greenhouse gases cause climate change, there’s no basis in fact.”
The comedian quipped, “He thinks it’s just some bullshit that people made up out of nothing to get rich. You know, like crypto.”
The day before, the Trump administration rescinded a 2009 EPA finding that stated carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health. The finding was the legal underpinning of almost all climate regulations for power plants, vehicles and other sources of pollution.
“And, yes, his EPA director, Lee Zeldin, said this is the single, this is a quote, ‘single largest deregulatory action in American history,’ Maher said. “Probably true. Also the biggest dick move in American history.”
Donald Trump, left, and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced this week that they rescinded a scientific finding underpinning nearly all climate change regulations for polluters.
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Later in the episode, which aired the day before Valentine’s Day, Maher discussed a different kind of “dick.” The host argued that what women “really want” is for men “to grow up and start being men again,” and he used Taylor Swift’s engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce as a prime example.
“Taylor Swift went from writing songs about what a dick this guy was to her, and what a dick this guy was to her, to what a dick this guy has,” he said, an apparent reference to the pop star’s song “Wood,” widely believed to be about the football player’s penis.
Bill Maher cited Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce as evidence that women want men to “to grow up and start being men again.”
Claiming that Taylor dated “a procession” of “tortured poet metrosexuals in America in Europe,” Maher concluded, “The second she got some old-school wood from the heartland, it was game over.”