Bill Maher and Michael Douglas are lastly discussing their ideas on the 2024 election outcomes, which noticed Donald Trump defeat Kamala Harris.
The Actual Time with Bill Maher host kicked off the most recent present together with his opening monologue, saying, “A lot of people are freaking out. You know what? I opened the window today, the sun was still shining, the birds were still singing, my gardener was packing for Mexico, that’s the thing.”
“I did not vote for the winner,” he continued. “We’ll see what the winners do, now that they won. Now they have reality they have to deal with, you know. We’ll see what they do, see if they live up to their word. Trump says he’s gonna deport 12 million people. How are you gonna get 12 million people back into Mexico? And today Trump said, ‘I’m way ahead of you. Why do you think I left so many holes in the wall?’”
The comic added, “For months, Democrats have been saying, ‘How is this even close?’ And they’re right, it wasn’t. They could not conceive of a second Trump term, but they should have. When does America ever turn down seconds?”
Maher later introduced in his first visitor, Douglas, who expressed his disappointment on the final result of the presidential election but additionally shared a optimistic second he had this week amid the chaos.
“The other thing I just have to share, after Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, [I’m] just so pissed at this razor-thin race,” the Oscar winner mentioned. “It was gonna be so close, with all these polls … and it’s a wipeout. I had no idea how that could happen. So, I go down Wednesday morning to play golf just to clear my mind. I go play nine holes, and I get a hole-in-one.”
Elsewhere throughout their dialog, the actor additionally introduced up inflation and the demise of the center class, telling Maher, “The very fact now that we can talk about Republicans as being the party for the people, and we are this elitist party on the left, Democrats, is wild.”
Earlier this 12 months, Douglas portrayed Benjamin Franklin within the Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin. He additionally produced and appeared within the documentary America’s Burning, which dives into the nation’s financial divide.
The opposite visitors featured on the most recent episode of Actual Time had been John Heilemann and Sarah Isgur.
