Katie Couric Shocked to Hear Bill Maher Describe Trump ‘Killing It’ During CNN Town Hall: ‘He’s Not a Stand Up Comedian!’

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Katie Couric was taken aback by Bill Maher’s description of Donald Trump as “killing it” during a CNN town hall, amid a conversation on the media’s relationship with the former president.

Couric joined Maher for his Club Random podcast and broke down her long career in media. During a discussion about Trump, Maher knocked the media for not properly representing the views of the former president’s supporters.

“The audience loved him,” Maher said about last year’s Trump CNN town hall, which earned plenty of backlash from liberals.

“It was stacked with Trump supporters,” Couric said, arguing there should have been better “vetting” for the audience.

“Well, they said Republicans and independents. That’s what they said. Okay, maybe it was. How did they get in? If they did, that’s on CNN,” Maher responded.

The comedian went on to say the president was “killing it” by earning applause from the audience during the fiery event.

“Here’s what people saw in America. They saw Trump killing it. Killing it with the crowd! Then you cut to a panel of six people who all just do nothing but dump on him and call him a liar and America goes, ‘oh, didn’t you just see that we like him?’ And now —” he said before Couric jumped in again.

“He’s not a standup comedian!” she said.

“What?”

“‘He’s killing it.’ He’s not a standup comedian,” Couric said.

“No, but popularity. It doesn’t matter. The people loved him and what he was saying,” Maher argued.

Couric argued on the podcast that many Trump voters are motivated by “anti-intellectualism” and “class resentment.”

Maher called for Trump voters to be better represented in media, though he pushed back against platforming “election deniers.”

“No one’s been tougher on Trump than me, but I get it and I’m bored with it, and there’s a different way to do this, I think,” he said.

The Real Time host continued, “Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even more dangerous. Because it’s closer to home: My kid is coming home from school and he thinks he’s a racist? He’s five, what have you been telling him? Those kind of things are what they say ‘That’s why I’m voting for Trump.'”

Watch above via the Club Random podcast.