Comic, pundit, and podcast host Bill Maher was disgusted when iconic 80s star Jon Cryer blamed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on bigotry rather than “wokeness.”
Cryer — former star of the long-running television hit Two and a Half Men and originator of the role of Duckie in Pretty In Pink — was the guest on this week’s edition of Maher’s Club Random Podcast, during which the election came up.
Maher — a frequent critic of what he views as excessive “wokeness” in liberal politics — scoffed when Cryer pushed back on the notion that the phenomenon WAS to blame for Trump’s victory and attributed it to a hatred of trans people and Black women instead:
BILL MAHER: I don’t know. Sometimes people say things that trigger me. And of course, we just had the election. And I feel like I– my conscience is very clear. I warned everybody about Trump, and then I warned them that I warned them about what would get him reelected, which was stupid wokeness, which is what got him reelected.So I feel my conscience is very clear that I–. I told you and I told you and I told you. And I lost fans for it. You know, lots of the super woke that like, I’m not I’m not woke enough. Yeah, but like I think I had it right. Like that kind
of stuff is what lost the election from the Democrats. It’s in all–.JON CRYER: Maybe part of it? I don’t know. I think a lot–.BILL MAHER: They have polling on it. It’s–.JON CRYER: Well, I think it’s inflation. I think Americans hate inflation.BILL MAHER: Certainly was part of it–.JON CRYER: They hate inflation. They hate riots and they hate Black women. And they hate trans people.BILL MAHER: God, Jon, we’re not going to–.JON CRYER: Dude they just spent hundreds of millions of dollars.BILL MAHER: They don’t hate Black–.JON CRYER: –demonizing trans people and and that’s disgusting.BILL MAHER: Oh– Yeah. We shouldn’t talk politics.JON CRYER: Okay. We shouldn’t. I mean great. I don’t, we don’t have to.BILL MAHER: And this you know, I mean I have this kind of relationship with people on the right also who like like yeah it’s just going to take so long to even have this discussion.And I like, I want just like I would like to deprogram them. I feel like there’s things that don’t get in your bubble on the left that I would love to deprogram, but it’s probably not the place to do it.Yeah, but you can try it. Ifyou, if that’s how you want to spend your leisure hours, I mean. Deprogramming Duckie. (laughs) There’s– there’s a spinoff.
Watch above via Bill Maher’s Club Random Podcast.