Comedian and television host Bill Maher has announced that, as the second Trump administration prepares to take office later this month, he will adopt a “wait-and-see” approach. Speaking in an interview, Bill Maher stated, “I’m not going to pre-hate anything. I’ll hope for the best.”
However, Bill Maher clarified that if any significant developments occur, he won’t shy away from addressing them on his show. “If something serious happens, I’ll talk about it,” he affirmed.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The remarks reflect Maher characteristic blend of cautious optimism and readiness to engage in critical discussion as the new administration begins.
“I’m not going to engage in chasing every single rabbit that I come across down the hole like I did during my first term,” Maher expressed during his appearance on CNN’s “The Lead” this past Friday while discussing President-elect Trump.
“He’s a kooky guy who says a lot of kooky things, and I’m just not going to pre-hate anything. I’m just going to hope for the best, and then when something serious happens, I’ll comment on that,” he told CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
As Maher has been an outspoken and bitter critic of the former President Trump, he expressed his worries numerous times regarding what this could imply for the electorate if the Republican candidate were to win the presidential election of 2024. He had, back in November, predicted that he felt Trump would lose to Vice President Harris. Instead, the opposite happened from his prediction. Not only did Trump win but went on to win all seven battleground states considered crucial to the determination of who would be elected president.
In the aftermath of the election, he expressed a critical perspective regarding the Democrats, articulating that the party suffered significant losses in both chambers of Congress as well as the presidency. He attributed this decline, at least in part, to what he described as their “aggressively anti-common sense agenda,” which he believed played a crucial role in their electoral defeat.
On Friday, Maher announced that he has decided to incorporate a regular segment into his weekly HBO show “Real Time,” where he will deliver a monologue each week. During these segments, he plans to delve into and analyze some of Trump’s recent propositions, which notably include the controversial discussions surrounding the idea of purchasing Greenland and the intriguing suggestion of designating Canada as the 51st state of the United States.
Maher has repeated and further driven home what he claimed first about President Biden, that in his opinion the president is getting too old for the job as commander-in-chief. He further continued by saying it would be beneficial for the Democratic Party if the president gets out of the running for the presidency in 2024 as early as possible since this would only make it much easier for a Democratic National Convention that would better provide other people with more possibilities to get onto the ticket.
“I felt like I had standing to make that case because I had for so many years been the only person on television who was consistently railing against ageism. I have been saying for years ageism is the last allowable prejudice that we can have in this country,” Maher stated on Friday.
“You can always do the age jokes, you can always rail on people for being too old and it was as I said, a case-by-case basis. Some people at 70 act like they are 100 years old and some are like 40-year-old,” he added. “But this was a case, ok, where Biden was too old.”