Bill Maher Calls Trump ‘Full of Sh*t Crazy Person’ While Defending Dinner

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher called President Donald Trump a “crazy person” and “full of sh*t” even as he defended having dinner at the White House and described Trump as much more normal in person.

Maher was a guest on this week’s edition of NPR’s Newsmakers, during which host Steve Inskeep asked him about the dinner, which Maher speaks about frequently:

STEVE INSKEEP: I want to follow up on one of many things you’ve done in the last couple of years that have made news. You had dinner with President Trump.

BILL MAHER: Yes.

STEVE INSKEEP: Talked about it on your program, gave a report of what you did. Many people hated that you met him. Some people liked that you meet 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.

BILL MAHER: Yeah, right.

STEVE INSKEEP: But we’ve had another year of his presidency to observe, and you’ve been critical of a lot of it. Um, do you stick with that conclusion that he’s a sane person who is just acting crazy?

BILL MAHER: He’s so more self-aware than he lets on in public. That’s another thing I said, and ab– absolutely so much more self-aware, not belligerent. And by the way, everybody who meets him says the same thing.

STEVE INSKEEP: Why do you think he would play a crazy person on TV? He has that choice.

BILL MAHER: Well, he is a crazy person in the extent that he definitely has a form of Tourette syndrome. He just blurts out whatever is on his mind often.

It’s funny, he’s both, at the same time, the most full of sh*t person and also the most honest.

You know, I saw him at a, he was doing an interview very much like this recently with somebody and he didn’t like something she said and he just went, you’re a terrible person.

Now, that’s just not how we act. Even though to be honest I’ve thought that. Not necessarily about you. We’ll see how this goes. We may get to that.

STEVE INSKEEP: Yeah, there’s time.

BILL MAHER: But just, there is something different about the mind that does that. Yeah, he just speaks his interior monolog, which is just, you know, that is a certain type of mental disorder. But… It seems to be come out when he feels in any way attacked, which is like outside of his comfort zone.

You know, what can I tell you? I mean, I just found a very different person. You know the people who attack me have no argument. They just have a feeling. Their feeling is I never want to come in second in a I hate Donald Trump the most contest.

Boring, okay. Nobody has been harder on Donald Trump. That’s why the dinner happened to begin with. It was sort of a Nixon to China thing, you know.

STEVE INSKEEP: Yeah.

BILL MAHER: Let’s just talk to each other instead of hurling insults. Well, he’s back to hurling assaults because I never once changed my tune. When I got back to work, I didn’t ever said I would. And there are other argument is you’ll elevate him. Oh my God, when is he gonna become president?

STEVE INSKEEP: He’s pretty elevated now, got it.

BILL MAHER: Isolate him? He’s got a lot of friends, you know. He doesn’t read the briefing books. He does everything by people 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.

Watch above via NPR’s Newsmakers.

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