Bill Maher doesn’t care what Larry David or anyone else thinks about his controversial dinner with President Donald Trump – he’s ready for a second course.
Back in March, Maher accepted an invitation to dine at the White House with President Trump after their mutual friend, rapper, singer and right-wing loudmouth Kid Rock, offered to bridge the gap between the politically opposed boomer ignoramuses. Following the across-the-aisle dining experience, Maher praised Trump on his show Real Time, calling Trump “gracious” and claiming, “He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
In the following days, Maher faced mass scrutiny from a public who felt that he was cozying up to a far-right despot whom he had spent the last decade criticizing, simply because Trump knew how to host a decent banquet. David, especially, roasted Maher’s meal diplomacy in his satirical essay “My Dinner with Adolf.”
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During a talk with fellow friend of Trump Cheryl Hines on his podcast Club Random, Maher continued to rage against David’s hilarious critique of his big table approach to politics, even going so far as to say that he intends to dine with Trump a second time, so long as the White House kitchen doesn’t suddenly decide that serving vegetarian food is too woke.
As Maher explained to the wife of Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his eagerness to return to the White House for a second serving – possibly in the new ballroom that Trump is currently building in the smoldering ashes of the historic East Wing – stems from a certain piece of merch that he brought to his last dinner with the President.
“You see this? The thing he signed when I went to him?” Maher said to Hines, motioning to a framed piece of memorabilia on the wall of his garish boomer mancave, “That’s every insult he’s ever said about me publicly. I had it printed out, and he signed it, God bless him!” However, Maher doesn’t hold any of Trump’s public attacks towards him against the President – in fact, he believes that he deserved the kind of abuse that Trump hurtled towards him over the last ten years. “I earned every one of those,” Maher admitted of his signed insult list.
“It’s not like I was ever deceived, before or after I had dinner with him, and I want to have dinner with him again,” Maher continued, “I think he needs more people – and he likes talking to people!”
“I think he actually wants more people around him for stimulating conversation!” Maher postulated about the Commander in Chief, apparently under the assumption that he could stimulate anything more than the cheeks of Trump’s ass with his big mouth.
I wonder what new token of friendship Maher will have autographed during his next White House dinner – perhaps he’ll walk away with a chunk of the East Wing.
