Invoice Maher calls himself a 'hero' for a way he dealt with Trump assembly

[ad_1] "Actual Time" host Bill Maher mentioned Thursday that he needs to be thought to be a "hero" for a way he dealt with the White Home assembly along with his political foe, President Donald Trump.

Showing on the "2 Angry Men" podcast , Maher was requested concerning the public response to his dinner with Trump final week.

"I am not pulling punches, both on my present or once I was with him or after" Maher advised podcast hosts Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos. "And I am proud that I used to be in a position to enter the White Home and say to the President of america, look him within the eye and say, 'You are scaring folks. You recognize, it does not hassle you that you just're scaring so a lot of your personal residents?'"

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Invoice Maher went viral for calling President Trump "gracious and measured" throughout his go to to the White Home. (Screenshot/HBO)

Maher addressed the backlash he received from the left for his monologue recapping his optimistic Trump assembly.

"I might say to them, ‘Versus what?’ I had the chance to go to the White Home and discuss to the president and never quit my rules. It looks as if no person observed that," Maher mentioned. "I did not go MAGA. I had the chance to speak to Donald Trump and say issues to him that possibly he by no means hears, actually to talk reality to energy. I should not take that chance?"

"So, I needs to be a hero for going there and doing these issues and saying these issues to the president. I am not the villain right here," Maher mentioned. "I imply, there's two methods you are able to do the Oval Workplace: the best way I did it, truthfully, or, like Gretchen Whitmer, who held up a bunch of binders in entrance of her face."

"I needs to be a hero for being one of many individuals who obtained contained in the inside sanctum and was in a position to say to this individual – who is aware of how a lot he ever hears something that is not coming from the cult – and say these issues and persist with my weapons."

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Maher mentioned he was "proud" to confront President Trump on numerous subjects and prompt he needs to be thought to be a "hero" for a way he dealt with the White Home go to. (Screenshot/HBO; Getty Photographs)

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Maher made headlines on Friday for calling Trump "gracious and measured" on the assembly and suggesting the person within the Oval Workplace will not be the person the remainder of the world sees on TV.

"I by no means felt I needed to stroll on eggshells round him," Maher advised his "Actual Time" viewers. "And truthfully, I voted for Clinton and Obama, however I might by no means really feel comfy speaking to them the best way I used to be in a position to discuss with Donald Trump. That is simply the way it went down. Make of it what you'll. Me? I really feel it is emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular nowadays."

Whereas conservatives celebrated Maher's White Home go to, liberals had been irked by his feedback, many accusing the HBO host "falling into the trap" of the president's "PR stunt."

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Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions might be despatched to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.