1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: We're entering the bizarro world. Bill Maher is defending Donald Trump. 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: He's been coming out more often saying things that he 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: likes about Donald Trump. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: Well, like I said, Mar is a survivalist, and I 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: think what a guy like Mar recognized is that it's 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: sort of like the Doctor Frankenstein thing, where it's fun 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: to create the monster until the monster turns on you. 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: And in the case of Mar, in the first Trump presidency, 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: he was elevating voices of insane, many insane people, and 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: really riling up crazy people because they were the fierce 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: opposition to Trump. And he liked that. The problem was 12 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: especially in the in the COVID world and afterwards, where 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: political correctness just completely took over, wokeness totally took over. 14 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: That it's like like the Batman thing with you know, 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: with Bain, where you start letting the inmates run the 16 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: and you can't control the monster anymore. And he recognized, Hey, 17 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: I'm a sixty something white guy who tells politically incorrect jokes. 18 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: Eventually they're going to come for me, right, And he 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: started trying to, you know, backpedal his way out of it. 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: And so I think you've seen a more measured approach 21 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: from mar Trump term too. He's never going to come 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: out and be a supporter, but I think he's been 23 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: more mindful of what he saw happen with these crazy 24 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: people who he knows will eventually come come for him 25 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: if he's not careful. 26 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 2: He was talking about the meeting with Putin and of 27 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: course Zelensky and all the European leaders being at the 28 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 2: White House, and he was praising Donald Trump and Trump's 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: hatred for war. 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 3: It's funny I see that today as the anniversary of Woodstock. 31 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: This is a fifty six years ago. And on the hippies, 32 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: what did they hate more than anything else? War? What 33 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 3: is it good for? Absolutely nothing? So if the kind 34 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 3: of person who says, you know, you can find some 35 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: good in anybody, this would be the good in Donald Trump. 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 3: He really does not like war. Thailand and Cambodia we're 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: having a firing at each other, Rwanda and the Congo. 38 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: Most people don't even know about these, India and the Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan. 39 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 3: He got involved in all of them. He really doesn't 40 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 3: really he wants it now the way he does it 41 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: as usual, not you know. With the Ukraine, the solution 42 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 3: was well, surrender, give Putin everything he wants, and even 43 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: that didn't work. That's the thing. He gave Putin ever 44 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 3: anything he wanted, and it didn't work. But again, let's 45 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: not have the zombie lie that he's still backing Putin, 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: because first of all, he bombed Iran. That was a 47 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 3: Putin Ally, he didn't get out of NATO. He mended 48 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 3: fences with NATO, so Andy put sanctions back on Russia. 49 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 3: So you know you're really coming around, Bill, I'm not 50 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 3: coming around. There's no coming around this just to what's true. 51 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 3: This is true, right, I don't come around. I'm not 52 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 3: anybody's team. I'm on the team. Am on what's right, 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 3: what's true, what happened, This is what happened. He just 54 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 3: doesn't like war. 55 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: I think two areas where you would say Donald Trump 56 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: has been an a in his presidency is foreign policy 57 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: and the border. I think his foreign policy, he is 58 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: the greatest foreign policy president since at least Reagan. He 59 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: may you could make a compelling case, even though he 60 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: didn't face quite the large scale foreign policy crisis involving 61 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: the US that a Reagan did, may have been better 62 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: than Reagan. And he doesn't get enough credit for that, absolutely, 63 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: Trump has done a phenomenal job of keeping the US 64 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: out of foreign conflicts of while still maintaining US dominance 65 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: around the world. And for that, especially compared to some 66 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: of these other nimrods that we've had in there that 67 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: were total warmongers, Bush, Obama, you know those guys, he 68 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: deserves a, you know, a huge pat on the back 69 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: and to raise his hand and say great job. 70 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 2: Absolutely, But it's almost like Bill Maher would explode if 71 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 2: he said I support Trump in this effort. He walks, 72 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 2: walks right up to the line, but then he won't 73 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 2: say it. Of course, Donald Trump said that he would 74 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: not send US troops into Ukraine, and then the White 75 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 2: House Press secretary said that Vladimir Putin said that he 76 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 2: would meet with Zelensky. They're trying to pick a location, 77 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: maybe in Turkey, maybe in Switzerland. It I'm so grateful 78 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump is making this effort. But at the 79 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 2: same time they had the meeting in Alaska, he had 80 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: all of those foreign leaders come to the White House, 81 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 2: and now he's saying, Okay, these two need to get 82 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 2: in a room together and then maybe I'll be there. 83 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 2: Maybe I won't, like, come on, guys make a peace deal. 84 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: Well, that's not going to happen. That's the problem. And 85 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: the biggest issue for Trump is he declared it a 86 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: one day thing. Now I get that it's hyperbole and 87 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: he does this all the time, but it's really come 88 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: back to bite him because this is very difficult when 89 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: you have a guy I think I can't remember if 90 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: it was you or Jerry we were talking about this with. 91 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: When one guy doesn't care if his guys die, then 92 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: you don't have leverage, right, part of leverage, And any 93 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: of these foreign leaders, dictators, whatever is the desire to 94 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: mitigate damage. Why does Kim Jong un actually never launch 95 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon or why would he not ever actually 96 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 1: launch a nuclear weapon because he wants to live? Why 97 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: was Saddam Hussein not actually ever a threat to America 98 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: because he wanted to live? Gaddafi all these other people, right, 99 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: they're strong men, they bark, but they care about they 100 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: care about living or dying. And in the case of Putin, 101 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: he may care about himself personally living or die, but 102 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: he don't care if those boys on a front line 103 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: live or die. And so it's hard to negotiate a 104 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: piece deal with someone who is willing to continue to 105 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: absorb mass casualties for his country. 106 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 2: But Donald Trump has said even since the debates, he 107 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: just wants the dying to stop. He has stuck to 108 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: that message this entire time, and Bill Maher recognizing that, Yeah, 109 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 2: that's actually what he believes.