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Bill Maher admits he’s “kind of jealous” of Donald Trump’s ability to bypass red tape friday episode real time.
US President investigated this week Vandalism on the East Wing of the White House Started so teams can make space Trump’s new $250 million ballroom.
“As someone who took three years to install my solar panels, I’m a little jealous,” the talk show host quipped.
“I’m a little surprised because I live in L.A., where you need 13 permits to put a bird feeder on your deck,” Maher continued, before joking: “He says he won’t stop until he finds those Epstein files.”
Sharing a photo of an excavator tearing down the East Wing, Maher said it should be filed under “metaphors that are almost too obvious.”
trump promised in july His ballroom construction “will not interfere with the existing building.”
“It will be near it but not touch it. And completely respectful of the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” he told reporters at the time.
“So that was a lie,” fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert pointed out on his talk show earlier this week.
Colbert called Trump’s destruction of the White House “extremely disturbing” and joked, “We’re not giving them the security deposit back.”
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elsewhere real time On Friday, Maher debated with guest panelist Michael Steele over what Steele called “the destruction of a symbol of this government.”
“You’re talking about the White House?” Maher asked. “Oh, it’s a building, Mike.”
The MSNBC political analyst argued, “Well, Bill, it’s probably a building to you, but to a lot of Americans it’s not.”
Maher responded: “Presidents change buildings. Nixon built a bowling alley, Obama turned a tennis court into a basketball court. I can’t be so crazy about everything, Mike, I can’t do that.”
“The symbol is that he’s not going. That’s what bothers me. Who keeps the huge ballroom if you’re going?” He added.
On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote on Monday: “Completely separate from the White House, the East Wing is being completely modernized as part of this process, and when it is completed it will be more beautiful than ever!”
Trump also reminded followers that the project is being “privately funded by many generous patriots, great American companies, and yours truly.”
Maher, who is often a sharp critic of Trump, met the president unexpectedly in April after being invited by their mutual friend Kid Rock. host Left in the evening with a revised opinionSpeaking glowingly about the Commander-in-Chief.