On Actual Time on Friday evening, Invoice Maher mentioned his viewers was fired up due to their upcoming three-day weekend. “You’re going to have Monday off, proper?” he mentioned in the beginning of his monologue within the HBO present’s February 14 episode. “[It’s] President’s Day. All authorities workplaces shall be closed, though I believe that was the plan anyway.”
Certainly, Maher devoted a lot of his monologue to the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal authorities staff. “That is week 4 of Hulk smash,” Maher quipped. “The administration that dissects a frog with a hand grenade. That is their methodology.”
He went on: “America is in shock that the man whose catchphrase was ‘You’re fired’ is firing everyone in authorities. ‘He desires to suck our blood? That’s not what I voted for after I voted for Dracula.’ Possibly this is the reason Gen Z’s approval ranking of Trump has dropped 30 factors in a single month. Hey, children, slightly tip, the time to concentrate is earlier than the election.”
Maher mentioned he himself believes authorities is simply too bloated. “However the best way they’re doing it’s ridiculous and horrible,” he added. “And now they went — perhaps that is the one which’s too far — they went and fired virtually everyone within the company that’s accountable for sustaining our nuclear weapons. Fired. After which, after all, they needed to stroll that again, as anyone mentioned, ‘It is a nationwide safety disaster.’ Duh.”
The comic additionally referenced Elon Musk and his staffers’ entry to authorities methods. “We have been so scared that the federal government was going to show into The Handmaid’s Story that we didn’t see that the large menace was from the blokes on The Large Bang Idea,” Maher mentioned.
Later within the episode, visitor Child Rock left Invoice Maher speechless with a diatribe about Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present. The singer and rapper claimed he understands hip-hop tradition “slightly bit extra” than different white individuals.
“I’m like, [Lamar] just about got here out figuratively with each center fingers within the air, doing what he does for the individuals who love what he does, unapologetically,” he mentioned. “And I don’t assume he offers a frog’s fats ass what anybody thinks about it. … So I’m going, huh, it’s just about how I constructed my entire profession. I gotta respect it.”
However then Child Rock mentioned Lamar and halftime-show producer Jay-Z owe a debt of gratitude to Colin Kaepernick, the previous quarterback who famously kneeled through the nationwide anthem at NFL video games to protest racial inequality and police brutality.
“I believe Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar ought to each ship Colin Kaepernick a Bundt cake and a six-pack of beer and a thank-you word with a bunch of cash in it, as a result of with out him kneeling and getting everybody’s panties in a bunch over the anthem, [myself] included, I don’t assume that occurs.”
Child Rock additionally mentioned Lamar’s efficiency was “the epitome of [diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts] blowing up.”
He defined: “Jay-Z in there reserving this, and, like, Kendrick Lamar goes on the market and mainly turns DEI into an IED. It’s like all Black individuals or all individuals of shade, talking to his crowd within the hood, Black individuals. It was like probably the most unique factor ever, and I’m like, ‘F*** yeah, that’s superior.’ I’m laughing my ass off.’”
Maher, in response, chuckled and stammered as he tried to course of Child Rock’s evaluation.
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Fridays, 10/9c, HBO