On Actual Time on Friday, Invoice Maher kicked off his opening monologue by rehashing President Donald Trump’s “massive journey” to the Center East and his cozy relationship with Saudi and Qatari leaders.
“Lots of stuff occurred,” Maher mentioned. “He was in Saudi Arabia — boy, they’ve a bromance occurring over there. Nicely, they do. I imply, bromance diplomacy, I name it. However you recognize, Trump has a singular bond with the Saudis: They each reshaped the Manhattan skyline.”
The comic added, “I’m telling you that Trump loves these wealthy Arab guys. He mentioned he mentioned to Crown Prince MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] over there, he mentioned, ‘I such as you an excessive amount of.’ He did and now Putin isn’t returning his texts.”
Trump has a singular bond with the Saudis; they each reshaped the Manhattan skyline. pic.twitter.com/AJ7PcJnW4b
— Invoice Maher (@billmaher) Could 17, 2025
Trump did certainly say these phrases to Prince Mohammed, 4 years after a U.S. intelligence group report alleged that the crown prince accepted the assassination of Washington Publish journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ABC Information reviews.
“After which — I really like this — as Trump is leaving Saudi Arabia, [he] shakes arms with MBS after which they play ‘YMCA’ in a rustic the place you might get the dying penalty for being homosexual,” Maher mentioned on Friday’s present. “I do know they are saying, Village Folks, that’s not a homosexual anthem, however individuals assume it’s, OK? So to play that whereas he’s in Saudi Arabia, however you recognize, that’s Trump after which it was on to Rome to satisfy the brand new pope to the tune of [‘WAP’].”
Maher additionally mentioned Trump visiting Qatar and receiving a $400 million aircraft as a present from the nation’s royal household. “You realize whenever you journey, you want to go away with a memento, proper?” the Actual Time host mentioned. “So he obtained a $400 million aircraft that they gave him. They gave him a $400 million aircraft, which he accepted.”
And Maher mentioned that Trump’s plan to make the posh Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet a alternative for Air Drive One can be “moot” since, because the BBC reviews, consultants say the aircraft possible wouldn’t be prepared for official use by the top of his time period.
“So it must be non-public, which then it will be unlawful,” Maher mentioned. “However you recognize that it doesn’t matter. Trump says he won’t be utilizing it when he leaves workplace, and other people don’t imagine that — not the utilizing it half, the leaving workplace half.”
Actual Time With Invoice Maher, Fridays, 10/9c, HBO