Invoice Maher is flabbergasted by the folks President-elect Donald Trump needs in his Cupboard.
Trump has picked a flurry of controversial Republicans for key White Home jobs within the weeks since he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris: Fox Information host Pete Hegseth, World Wrestling Leisure co-founder Linda McMahon, impartial candidate and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and firebrand former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), to call a couple of.
“Linda McMahon is in a lawsuit about enabling sexual shenanigans of some type with the wrestling world,” Maher said on “Real Time” Friday in his opening monologue. “After which there’s Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, and oh, RFK, who admitted to groping a nanny.”
Hegseth, Trump’s choose for Protection Secretary, was accused of sexually assaulting a girl in 2017, in keeping with a police report filed on the time. The Fox star was by no means charged, and has claimed the encounter was consensual. However Maher mentioned the allegations raised one other query: “Has anybody ever had intercourse with somebody from Fox Information and preferred it?”
The Democrat and comic did applaud the opposite aspect of the aisle for pushing again in opposition to Gaetz, who confronted a Home ethics probe for allegedly having intercourse with a 17-year-old and utilizing illicit medicine, solely to resign from Congress earlier than the probe’s report could possibly be launched. The previous congressman, who withdrew from consideration Thursday amid mounting objections from Democrats and Republicans alike, was changed inside hours by former Florida lawyer common Pam Bondi.
“The Republicans mentioned, ‘Sure, too despicable, even for us,’” Maher joked, “which I respect.”
Maher visibly struggled to include himself whereas establishing a few of these bits, significantly in noting {that a} wrestling government was nominated to be secretary of schooling, and requested rhetorically, “Do I actually have to put in writing jokes for this?”
“I’m not saying this crew won’t be good at their jobs, however they would be the first cupboard that’s requested to remain [outside] 500 ft of a faculty,” he joked later within the present. “You realize that ineffective sexual harassment seminar that all of us must do at work? We lastly discovered an workplace that wants it.”
