Invoice Maher fact-checked Donald Trump over his current feedback about their much-ballyhooed dinner, setting the document straight after the president accused the “Actual Time” host of being “nervous and scared” on the casual White Home assembly.
Maher received into it Friday evening on his HBO present, saying he awoke final Saturday morning to seek out the dinner – which passed off in April, and for which Maher took plenty of warmth – again within the headlines.
“(Trump) was very mad at me as a result of I didn’t get his joke about how China is gonna make Canada hand over hockey,” Maher mentioned. “, I believe we’re going to need to workshop that one for some time. So he went off on me and mentioned, you already know, the dinner we had was a waste of time. Effectively, I didn’t suppose it was.”
Trump’s Fact Social publish on Valentine’s Day morning painted Maher as being “extraordinarily nervous, had ZERO confidence in himself and, to appease his nerves, instantly, inside seconds, requested for a ‘Vodka Tonic.’” He additionally known as Maher “a extremely overrated LIGHTWEIGHT … Invoice continues to undergo from a extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS!), and there’s nothing that can ever be executed to treatment him of this very severe illness.”
Maher mentioned Friday that Trump turned on him “as a result of I by no means stopped criticizing him. I by no means mentioned I’d. And I understand how girls really feel now. A man buys you dinner after which expects you to place out. OK? I’m not that man.”
Maher mentioned he deliberate on responding in full to Trump’s rant in an upcoming episode of “Actual Time,” which is again March 6 after a one-week hiatus.
“I’m going to deal with this on the finish,” Maher mentioned. “His entire lengthy screed. Sure, and show that I don’t have Trump derangement syndrome.”
There was one other element that Maher felt the necessity to appropriate: “That, you already know, I instantly requested for a drink. He instantly needed a vodka. OK, it was a margarita. It was not a vodka, and it wasn’t instantly. I had a drink earlier than dinner, as folks do.”
As for being nervous and scared, Maher known as an outright fabrication.
“Bulls–t! It’s so humorous, as a result of I received a lot s–t from the left for reporting actually that, in individual, he was very totally different, very good, very gracious,” Maher mentioned. “After which he says, no, he was scared. I’m just like the Democrats with an election. I simply can’t win!”
Watch the video clip over on mediaite.
