During his HBO show last night, Bill Maher finally shared the details of his White House meeting and dinner with President Trump and while he makes it clear that he is not going MAGA, the event did affect his perception of the man.
Maher explains how surprised he was by the difference between the Trump he sees portrayed in the media, and the person he met at the White House. He says he found Trump gracious and able to laugh easily, even at himself.
FOX News has details:
Bill Maher reveals Trump was ‘gracious and measured’ at White House meeting, says he’s not the man seen on TV“Real Time” host Bill Maher revealed details Friday of his meeting last week with President Donald Trump at the White House, saying Trump was more gracious and good-humored than he expected.”You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured,” Maher said. “And why isn’t that in other settings- I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”…Maher shared a printout of the insults Trump had leveled at him over the years, which Trump signed with “good humor.””And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened,” Maher said, adding he “didn’t go MAGA. And to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to.”The HBO host expressed his surprise about how Trump laughs, something he said he had never seen him do in public, telling his audience, “He does, including at himself.”…”I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,” he told his audience. “And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. That’s just how it went down. Make of it what you will. Me? I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.”
The segment is 13 minutes long and I recommend watching the whole thing.
As I have said from the first reports of this meeting, it is going to anger some Bill Maher fans and some Trump supporters. I still think it is a good thing. Bill Maher is never going to be a conservative and will probably never support a Republican for president, but he has made small steps to a more reasonable position than he had in 2016.
Imagine if other people in media and entertainment could do the same.
Featured image via YouTube.
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