Bill Maher Torches Trump Chaos — Says Things Are So Bad Melania’s Coat Said ‘I’m Starting To Care!’

Comic and political pundit Bill Maher gave a comical description of life under President Donald Trump, then cracked that things are so bad First Lady Melania Trump’s “jacket said ‘I’m starting to care!'”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Douglas Murray, New York Times bestselling author of the new book “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization.”

The panel guests were Matt Welch, co-host of “The Fifth Column” podcast and editor-at-large of Reason Magazine; and Sen. Tina Smith, Democratic senator from Minnesota.

Maher kicked off the show with an irreverent monologue blaspheming the Christian Easter holiday and taking aim at Trump with a reference to Melania’s cryptic first-term sartorial message:

BILL MAHER: All right. I know why you’re happy. It’s Good Friday, and this is the day Jesus died for all of our sins. So you know what? Have fun. It’s all paid for. You’re playing with the house money.

Oh, just the same way it’s tax day, or was on Wednesday, and you know, one of the things that DOGE has done is kind of gutted the IRS. So, you know. If you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. Uh… Yeah. I mean, I’ll say this. A lot of the things Trump does are really pandering to the base, but letting tax cheats not have to worry about getting audited, that one came from the heart! It really did.

Oh, I don’t want to say the economy’s going in the shitter, but did you see this? People are dying, dying. Yeah, they’re dying, too. But dying potatoes, because for Easter, because eggs are too expensive.

This sounds like something my Irish relatives did after they shit in a hole and slept in the mud, you know?

So yes, we’re dying potatoes. People are dying overseas because we cut overseas aid. They say the New York Fed says we’re going into a recession. We have a constitutional crisis. Today, Melania had a jacket that said, “I’m starting to care.”

CROWD: (LAUGHTER)

BILL MAHER: All right. But, but hey, it’s Easter, it is Easter on Sunday, are you excited about it? About that.

Oh my gosh, my favorite holiday on the Christian calendar, the day when we celebrate Jesus being resurrected from the dead, or as Elon Musk sees it, an elaborate scheme to defraud social security.

And, uh, it’s a… Oh, it’ a Easter, very big day at the White House. Trump is, uh… Trump is honoring the day by locking up guys named Jesus, and… And, um, he pardoned Punch’s pilot. I’m sorry. He pardoned Pontius Pilate is what I meant to say. Get out of my mouth.

But oh, and not just Trump, JD Vance, our vice president, he’s in Rome. You know, he is a convert, a recent convert to Catholicism. He’s married to a Hindu, goes right to the Catholics. I don’t know what that says. But he converted to Catholic, because he heard priests like little pricks. So —

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.