Comedian Bill Maher revealed on his Club Random podcast on Monday that he hopes to have a second dinner with President Donald Trump. Maher, who attended a March dinner with Trump at the White House, faced significant backlash from the left for the initial meeting.
Maher stated that despite his public criticism, Trump is “willing to listen” and has not sought to “cut [him] off,” a distinction Maher says he cannot make about the political left.
“I hope to have dinner with him again,” Maher said. “And he definitely doesn’t like it when you critique him and thinks you’re being unfair, but he is willing to listen… he will yell at me but does not want to cut me off, which is something I cannot say about the left. They want to cut you off.”
Maher has previously commented on the encounter, arguing on a recent Real Time with Bill Maher episode that Trump was more approachable than recent Democratic presidents, suggesting this is a reason for the Democratic party’s unpopularity.
“Honestly, I voted for [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump,” he said in April.
The dinner initially drew sharp criticism, including a satirical New York Times op-ed by Larry David, which likened dining with Trump to dining with Adolf Hitler.
Maher denounced the backlash over the summer, criticizing the left’s attitude of refusing to engage with those on the right.
“The stupidest thing the left does — and this dinner is a perfect example of it — is having this attitude toward the right that: ‘We won’t even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won’t even sit down at the same table with you!’ That is their attitude — and that makes me sick too!” he concluded.
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