Bill Maher can’t believe President Donald Trump’s second term is only “11 fucking days old.”
In his “Real Time” monologue on Friday, the host tore into Trump and his newfound confidante, Elon Musk, in light of Wednesday’s deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. That night, a military helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet, killing 67 people.
Maher noted that Trump was initially correct in stating immediately after the crash that its cause was still unclear, only for the MAGA chief to blame federal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives “10 seconds later.”
The cause of the mid-air collision is still unknown, but Maher called the ongoing blame game “frustrating.”
“Everything is just such an overreaction,” he added. “Nothing ever stops in the middle. DEI, we overreached with that, now we have an accident like this, and Trump’s view is, ‘Well, the air traffic controller was distracted because he was a Haitian eating a cat at the time.’”
He noted that Democrats are blaming Elon Musk, who in September urged then-Federal Aviation Administration head Michael Whitaker to resign. Whitaker notably fined Musk’s SpaceX company $633,009 last year and stepped down on Inauguration Day.
“This administration is 11 fucking days old … and already they’ve gotten rid of the head of the FAA, the head of the TSA, eliminated the aviation security committee,” Maher continued. “I know you guys are very big on firing, but maybe keep the people who talk to the aeroplanes.”
Trump gutted a key aviation safety committee and fired the head of the Transportation Security Administration one week before the crash.
Maher went on to imitate the Nazi-esque salute Musk gave at an inaugural event in January, but stopped short of calling him a Nazi. Maher previously interviewed the tech mogul in 2023 and agreed with him that a “woke mind virus” had captured the Democratic Party.
He also criticized the Trump administration for planning to turn Guantanamo Bay into a detention center for migrants who are living in the U.S. illegally, but suggested some of the blame must land on lawmakers who claim to oppose Trump — but can’t act on it.
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“We just spent 20 years finally almost emptying the place,” he said Friday. “Now he wants to send 30,000 illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay. I get it, you guys, this is what people voted for. But I kinda feel sorry … for the pitiful, powerless people he is pushing around.”
Then came the punchline: “I’m referring to Congress.”