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Does This Change Your Opinion On Bill Maher?
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Maher made the announcement on his “Club Random” podcast, released Sunday, March 23, during a conversation with fellow comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz.
“Kid Rock was here a couple of weeks ago, and he said, ‘I want you to meet Trump.’ He said, ‘I’m gonna take you to the White House,’” Maher recalled, via Yahoo News. “So, now we’re gonna do that.”
Maher did not reveal a date for the meeting. But he's far from the first self-described liberal media figure to meet with the president since his re-election in November, including MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.
Maher has criticized Trump since long before his political rise. In 2013, Trump sued the HBO host for $5 million over a joke made on “The Tonight Show,” in which Maher told host Jay Leno he’d donate $5 million to charity if Trump could prove he wasn’t the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan,” Politico reported.
The gag mocked Trump’s own $5 million offer to then-President Barack Obama to release his college records. Trump later dropped the lawsuit.
Maher said his White House visit would likely provoke a backlash from the political left, comparing partisan hostility to high school cliques.
“And there will be lots of people on the Left who will be like, ‘How dare you talk to this man.’ It’s like, f* you, I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play,” Maher said, according to The Daily Wire. “Oh, you know what? You can’t sit at my lunch table because I’m just not talking to you. Not talking to you? You lost the election. Who the f* do you think you have to talk to?
“It’s one thing if you win it. It’s another thing if you lose it,” he added. “You have to talk to people.”
Maher joked that he would dress appropriately for the White House meeting — a dig at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who conservative media criticized for not wearing a suit to the Oval Office.
Kid Rock hinted at the upcoming meeting previously while speaking with Glenn Beck, according to Mediaite.
“I’m actually going to try and unite this country, and I’m starting at the end of the month," Rock said. "I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner — this guy who has done nothing but talk smack about the president since day one."
The Detroit rocker said he hopes the meeting sends a message about reconciling a deeply divided nation.
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