Comedian and publicist Bill Maher ridiculed the president Donald Trump after Trump called him a "low-ratings" host and a "fake laugh machine" on Truth Social.
Trump posted online, jubilant over his defeated opponents, writing: "Three more lame late night talk show hosts, including low ratings Bill Maher and his phony 'laugh machine,' must go.".
In Friday's episode of the program » Real Time with Bill Maher" on The former guest of the interview on the HBO channel was Vice President Mike Pence , the 48th Vice President of the United States and author of What Conservatives Believe: Rethinking the Conservative Conscience.
The guests of the discussion included: Senator Chris Murphy , a Democratic senator from Connecticut and author of the new book, "Crisis of the Common Good: The Struggle for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America"; and Susan Rice , former US Ambassador to the United Nations, former US National Security Advisor and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
During his monologue, Maher directly responded to Trump's attacks, citing the president's low approval ratings:
BILL MAHER: I can always tell when the president is in a bad mood because he starts tweeting about me. I consider it an honor to always be on his tweets, even when they're bad, and they're always bad.
This week he said I was "driving down Bill Maher's ratings with his phony laugh machine.".
(The audience howls.).
First off, low scores? Yours is 35%!
(Hurray and hello!)
BILL MAHER: What about a fake, fake laugh machine? Can we videotape our audience?
(Archival video footage)
That's all.
I know he's in a foul mood. Did you see his phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu? Wow, the language! He didn't even deny it. He told Natya, "You're fucking crazy. You'd be in jail if it weren't for you. I'm saving your ass. Everyone hates you. And your laugh machine is a fake.".
Watch the video above in the program «Real Time with Bill Maher» on the HBO channel.
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