‘This Is Deplorable!’ Bill Maher Destroys Trump Over Bombshell Meltdown In Oval Office
Comic and political pundit Bill Maher went off on President Donald Trump over his surreal meltdown at Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, calling the performance “deplorable.”
Trump and Zelensky met in the Oval Office Friday after weeks of tension over public comments between the two — a meeting that devolved into a stunning outright shouting match when Zelensky angered Trump.
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Prime Minister of Canada candidate Hon. Chrystia Freeland was the interview guest.
The panel guests were former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, former mayor of Chicago, and former chief of staff to President Obama Rahm Emanuel; and Fareed Zakaria, author, columnist for The Washington Post, and host of the CNN podcast Fareed Zakaria’s GPS.
Maher opened the panel segment by mocking clips of the meeting and declaring “We’re all agreed this is deplorable!”:
BILL MAHER: Hey, would you want to see a little more of Trump and Zelensky? And now let’s just see where America is. Now I just want to see a little more of this place.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.
You’re gambling with World War III.
You’re in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel.
You have to be thankful. You don’t have the cards.
Then you tell us. I don’t want a ceasefire. I don’t want a ceasefire.
BILL MAHER: Great day to be an American. I mean, my first thought is he’s having this big browbeating with a guy who speaks English as a second language. I just– it’s just. I mean.
So we’re all agreed this is deplorable! You know, I’ve tried to not use the word deplorable as much as I can, but when it’s deplorable, it’s deplorable!
And anyone who likes it. I mean, it’s a deplorable point of view.
But here’s my question to you guys. I always said Trump is a coalition winner like every politician is. It’s about a third of the country that loves this and will love anything he does.
He got elected with that other part that’s not the half that’s liberal and Democratic, but thinks that he was in some way less crazy than they are. Does something like this change that? Does this move the needle on the people who are that part of the coalition he needs to stay– to stay popular?
FAREED ZAKARIA: Look, I hope it does, because I think what we’re seeing. Yeah, it’s it’s, you know, it’s funny and it’s– but it’s really tragic.
Because first of all, to see the president of the United States and the vice president bully, berate, demean, you know, cajole somebody who, you know, who depends on on, you know, the, the United States for its survival.
But more than that, you know, over the last 100 years, the United States, whether it’s supported Britain at the right moment, whether it’s supported, you know, the allies in World War One, it was always clear morally, politically whose side we were on.
We were on the side of the victim of aggression. We were on the side of the democracies. We were against the dictators. We were against the aggressors.
And to see this bizarre moral reversion, you know, I mean, was absolutely clear in that listening to to Trump. He’s much more comfortable and sympathetic with Vladimir Putin. And he doesn’t like Zelensky.
Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
