Bill Maher visited Donald Trump at the White House, where he not only got Trump to sign sixty of the insults he’d hurled at Maher but also encountered a president who was surprisingly self-aware and willing to listen.
Maher concludes:
The most surreal part of the whole night was when I got home. I flew back right after the dinner and I’m in bed watching 60 Minutes from the night before, and there’s Trump in one of their stories, standing at a podium in a room that looked to me like one of the rooms and podium places we’d just been in. And he’s ranting: “Disgusting.” “You’re a terrible person.” And I’m like: Who’s that guy? What happened to Glenda the Good Witch, and why can’t we get the guy I met to be the public guy? And I’m not saying it’s our responsibility to do that. It’s not.
I’m just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours. I went into the mine, and that’s what’s down there. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there — which I know is fucked up. It’s just not as fucked up as I thought it was.
Donald Trump bragging about his cognitive exam:
"Person, woman, man, camera, TV" - Trump 2020 pic.twitter.com/MqmcwPWNv1
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 23, 2020
In a cartoon version:
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 24, 2020
New lyrics for a new time. Roy Zimmerman and friends to the melody of The Lion Sleeps Tonight:
In the White House, the mighty White House the liar tweets tonight
In the West Wing, the self-obsessed wing the liar tweets tonight