Bill Maher Draws Vehement Defense Of Trump By Mocking His ‘Vaguely Fascist Parade’

Comic and political pundit Bill Maher drew a vociferous defense from Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) when he accused President Donald Trump of blowing his own “vaguely fascist parade.”

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Dave Barry, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist and author of the new book “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up.”

The panel guests were Paul Begala, Democratic strategist and political contributor at CNN; and Rep. Wesley Hunt, Republican congressman who represents the 38th district of Texas.

During one exchange, Maher slammed Trump over the execution of his military parade, to which Hunt responded with an impassioned defense:

BILL MAHER: He does not always have bad ideas. Sometimes he has ideas… You agree, right?PAUL BEGALA: Of course.BILL MAHER: I mean, like, close the border, or get order on the border and, like get the gangs out of the country and make Europe pay for their own defense. And, you know, go back to equality instead of always equity and universities are out of control. A lot of these things.But what I can always depend on that administration to do is to reliably fuck up the execution.DOGE. You know, like all these things I can, all these issues I’ve mentioned, you know, should we see if the government has too much bloat and fat in it? Yes, but

reliably, like clockwork, like you can depend on it, they will fuck up the execution just like they did with the parade!Like do I think it was a good idea to have a parade? No, but if you’re going to do it, if you are going to have vaguely fascist parade, do it right!PAUL BEGALA: Yeah, he, in his first term he did two things that were great, honestly. Two things that are great, the first one, warp speed. He created the best vaccine in the world faster than anybody else for COVID, the COVID vaccine. And then he now never talks about it and his team all renounces. He puts a guy in charge of the health department who’s a vaccine skeptic to say the least. Right, he never talks about the best thing he ever did.The other thing he did was the USMCA, updated NAFTA, US-Mexico trade deal. What did he do the first time he comes back? He blows that up, too. So even the stuff that he does that is good, you’re right, he just destroys it. I don’t understand why it would take the entire staff of the Harvard School of Psychology to explain to me.REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX) But I do want to say something about that parade. I want to talk about the parade to offer another opinion from our side of this whole thing, and that is it

was the 250th birthday of our United States Army.As I said, thank you very much. And somebody that served this nation as an Apache pilot, again, my brother and sister going to West Point, six years in military service, mostly in the Army. My great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War.And you know what I saw? I saw the president salute the Corps of Cadets as they walked past him. I watched him salute the 75th Ranger Regiment as they walk past him, I sat there and watched the fireworks behind the Washington Monument. And you what I thought?Damn, that’s absolutely outstanding. And it’s far better than Joe Biden checking his watch when bodies were being returned to Dover.PAUL BEGALA: Wait a minute.REP. WESLEY HUNT (R-TX) This is a cut hold on this is a contrast that we were talking about and why you lost because we are talking about a man that’s talking about patriotism and in parades like that when I was growing up I served because I used to go these parades and watch my dad participate in them.I saw the Blackhawks landing, I visited my sister at West Point I said by God I want to serve this country too.And so the dichotomy of what we’re seeing with President Trump and his patriotism saluting the flag actually making an effort rather you like it or agree With the execution,

the effort is there, that’s all we want to see.BILL MAHER: Well, execution does matter. First of all, thank you for your service.

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