Earlier than heading off for Actual Time’s vacation hiatus — throughout which he’s vowing to not weigh in on something — Invoice Maher weighed in on President-elect Donald Trump’s cupboard picks.
“The Republicans, man, after they take energy, they seize it by the p****. They don’t f*** round,” Maher stated within the HBO present’s Season 22 finale on November 22. “They’re not even in cost but. They simply received the election. Already, large adjustments within the Home. They elected the primary transgender individual to the Home, so instantly the Republicans have now banned her from having the ability to go to the restroom.”
Sarcastically, Maher added, “Yeah, thank God the adults are again in cost.”
The TV pundit received into Trump’s cupboard picks, beginning with Matt Gaetz, Trump’s unique decide for legal professional normal. “Matt Gaetz, who was put as much as be legal professional normal, has withdrawn. He’s out. The Republicans stated, ‘Sure, too despicable, even for us,’ which I respect,” Maher stated. “Matt had a novel cause for withdrawing … he stated he needs to spend extra time with different individuals’s kids. Matt has been below federal investigation. He was not charged and denies all of the allegations … however they did contain a 17-year-old. In his protection, her purchasing bag did say Eternally 21.”
Then Maher turned his consideration to Fox & Pals co-host Pete Hegseth, whom Trump tapped to be secretary of protection. “He was accused — once more, simply accused — of getting, she says, nonconsensual sexual relations,” Maher stated. “He says consensual. So once more, we don’t know. You weren’t there. I wasn’t there. We don’t know. But it surely does elevate the query: Has anybody ever had intercourse with somebody from Fox Information and favored it?”
Maher additionally talked about how Linda McMahon, Trump’s schooling secretary decide, is known as in a lawsuit for allegedly failing to cease sexual abuse in World Wrestling Leisure, and that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s decide for secretary of well being and human providers, was accused of groping a lady who labored for his household as a babysitter.
“I’m not saying this crew is not going to be good at their jobs, however they would be the first cupboard that’s requested to remain [outside] 500 ft of a faculty,” Maher quipped. “ that ineffective sexual harassment seminar that all of us need to do at work? We lastly discovered an workplace that wants it.”
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Season 23 Premiere, Friday, January 17, 2025, 10/9c, HBO