So Kid Rock turns out to be friends with both Bill Maher and Donald Trump, and decided it would be a great idea to bring the two together. The great summit took place last week, and on Friday, Maher revealed details of his meeting with the left’s Emanuel Goldstein, the focus of evil in the modern world. To the severe disappointment of a great part of Maher’s fan base, however, while Maher was in the Oval Office, Trump didn’t murder any illegal migrants or behead any men who think they’re women. Yeah, I know: he was probably saving all that for later. Maher, however, came away thoroughly gobsmacked: Trump was not at all like what he expected him to be. You’d almost think that the establishment media has been lying about him all these years. Nah, that couldn’t be right. Could it?
Fox News reported Friday that Maher admitted that Trump wasn’t the monster he expected, but clearly the often sensible leftist was a bit defensive about straying from the reservation in this way. "You can hate me for it,” Maher said, “but I'm not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured.” Anticipating the howls from his leftist friends that are indeed certain to come, Maher then tacked back to leftist orthodoxy, acknowledging that Orange Man Bad is often a meanie: “And why isn't that in other settings — I don't know, and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high."
Again demonstrating his embarrassment at being in a position where he felt it incumbent upon himself to admit that Trump was a perfectly reasonable human being, Maher downplayed the significance of the entire meeting, saying that it was “ridiculous” to think that it was "some kind of summit." Maher insisted: "I have no power. I'm a f---ing comedian, and he's the most powerful leader in the world! I'm not the leader of anything, except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there's got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute." No doubt about that.
Maher seems to have gone into the meeting itching for a confrontation, as he printed out of a sheet full of negative things Trump had said about him. He presented this to the president, apparently expecting Trump to get angry or grow defensive himself. Instead, Trump reacted with "good humor" and autograph the page. Maher commented: "And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I'm gonna do is report exactly what happened."
Still trying to reassure his jittery left-fascist base, Maher insisted that he "didn't go MAGA. And to the president's credit, there was no pressure to." And he continued to explode the left’s Trump myths, noting with surprise that Trump actually laughs: "He does, including at himself. And it's not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it." Good gravy, has the man never watched even thirty seconds of a Trump rally? Trump’s ability to laugh, including at himself, is one of his most endearing qualities, and is on abundant display virtually every time he appears at a rally — and yet here is Maher being shocked (shocked!) that the man ever cracks a smile. It’s testimony to the power of leftist propaganda.
Maher also said that Trump was "much more self-aware than he lets on in public," and "didn't get mad" even when Maher asserted that he had actually lost the 2020 presidential election. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Bill that he thinks Trump doesn’t appear to be “self-aware” in public not because he really isn’t self-aware, but because that’s how the leftist establishment media constantly portrays him.
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Foreseeing further fuming from his friends, Maher said: "Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists. Because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent at least on this night with this guy.” Maybe it was never there in the first place, Bill. Maybe you’ve been lied to on a grand scale.
"I've had so many conversations with prominent people,” Maher continued, “who are much less connected, people who don't look you in the eye, people don't really listen because they just want to get to their next thing… None of that was him, and he mostly steered the conversation to ‘What do you think about this?’ I know, your mind is blown. So is mine."
Maher deserves credit for being honest about what happened at the meeting. If only his friends and allies were that inclined to tell the truth, come what may.
