ALBAWABA - Political commentator Bill Maher dined with President Donald Trump at the White House, earning both condemnation and praise for his actions and statements afterward.
“Many people hated that you met him,” NPR’s Newsmakers host Steve Inskeep said in an interview with Maher, “Some people liked that you met him. I’m thinking about the conclusion you drew, which was that, if I can summarize, you found a sane person at dinner who plays a crazy person on TV, as opposed to an actual crazy person.”
Maher said that the condemnations came from emotions rather than any articulate logic, saying that he was being made part of a competition between detractors to see who hates Trump the most.
“He is a crazy person in the extent that he definitely has a form of Tourette syndrome,” Maher replied to Inskeep. “He just blurts out whatever is on his mind often. It’s funny, he’s both, at the same time, the most full of s**t person and also the most honest.”
But what was curious was Maher’s insight into how Trump makes his presidential decisions,
“He doesn’t read the briefing books.” Maher said, “He does everything by, ‘people are saying.’
“Be one of the people ‘saying.’ Be one of those people who talk to him because he does look you in the eye and listen and he does change his mind sometimes because he has no fixed beliefs. They need more people like this, me talking to them, not less.”
In response to critics telling Maher that he would be ‘elevating’ Trump by sitting and dining with him, he shrugged it off sarcastically saying, “[I’ll] elevate him? Oh my God, what is he gonna become president?”
