Invoice Maher had a fiery alternate with Washington Put up columnist Josh Rogin after the latter accused him of getting “fallen into the lure” by just lately assembly with President Donald Trump on the White Home.
The pair’s spat got here after Maher, a vocal Trump critic who has sometimes scolded the left-wing, informed his “Actual Time” viewers throughout Friday’s episode that he had a “gracious and measured” dinner with Trump, Child Rock, and UFC Head Dana White earlier this month.
“You possibly can hate me for it, however I’m not a liar,” Maher informed the group. “Trump was gracious and measured. And why isn’t that in different settings? I don’t know, and I can’t reply, and it’s not my place to reply. I’m simply telling you what I noticed, and I wasn’t excessive.”
A “mind-blown” Maher admitted that Trump’s residency within the White Home isn’t as “fucked up” as he thought and applauded the president for his “willingness to hear and settle for me as a potential pal though I’m not MAGA.”
After Maher stated that he reported on his eating expertise with Trump “as sincere as I might be” throughout a panel dialogue later within the present, Rogin challenged him concerning the assembly, telling the “Actual Time” host that whereas he believed he was in attendance in “good religion,” Trump would possibly’ve had sick motives.
“I feel you’ve fallen into the lure, and I feel I symbolize 99% of the web once I say this: you’ve performed the sport of proximity is precept,” Rogin stated. “I’m not questioning your motivation; I’m questioning Trump’s, OK?”
Rogin then tried to ease the blow of his phrases by gushing over Maher’s skills, which apparently set the political commentator off.
“You don’t must patronize me, dude. I don’t know you. I’ve by no means met you,” Maher fired again at Rogin. “Not all people has to love it. That’s what we stated. There are individuals who didn’t need it to occur in any respect. You sound like one among them, it’s OK.”
After Rogin tried to speak over the comic in response, Maher firmly replied, “Did you hear what I stated? What’s the various to not speaking? Simply sit at your lunch desk and don’t speak to anyone?”
However Rogin didn’t let up, telling Maher, “I agree with the precept of engagement. I’m simply saying from [Trump’s] perspective…all Individuals know that for him this was a PR stunt, and in his view you have been a prop in that PR stunt.”
Piers Morgan, one other visitor on the panel, minimize in on the dialog to aspect with Maher.
“I don’t agree with that…If you happen to go on social media for 5 minutes now, you simply have this tribal fury raging all day lengthy. Everybody’s acquired to be implacably there, implacably right here, and really, most Individuals and most Brits; they’re not like that,” Morgan defined. “After which, the concept that Invoice Maher is now going to cease criticizing Donald Trump… is preposterous!”
Elsewhere within the episode, Maher shut down Rogin’s tackle his assembly with Trump.
“The truth that you started your little rant with ‘the web’ ― that tells me every thing. You’re taking your cues from the web. Good luck,” he informed Rogin.
Watch a clip from Maher’s “Actual Time” beneath.
