“Real Time” host Bill Maher vowed that he wouldn’t “pre-hate” the incoming Trump administration despite his own personal animosity towards President-elect Donald Trump. “They are calling themselves the ‘disruptors,'” Maher began during a panel discussion Friday night.“The country does need disrupting.
I mean, the country needs a colonic and a slap in the face so bad.“This is not who I would choose to administer the colonic but it’s not like the bureaucracy isn’t bloated.It’s not like the debt isn’t $36 trillion.
it’s not like there aren’t thousands of regulations that do stop people from living lives that they could live better and don’t do anything.There is woke in the military.
Whatever they’re going after… I’m not going to pre-hate anything,” Maher said. “Do I have really good, optimistic feelings about it? No, I don’t.I’m just not gonna pre-hate.
I can’t get into that mind[set].Let’s see what the disruptors can do.
Because, quite frankly, the experts have just sort of, like, let something go for so long that it’s just sclerotic now and constipated.”The HBO star offered some skepticism towards how effective the “disruptors” will be when the “corn lobby,” “pharmaceutical industry” and “defense contractors” begin voicing their objections towards the administration’s policies. “Let’s see what happens,” Maher said. Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update.Please provide a valid email address.
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Later in the conversation, Maher conceded that Trump was correct in his assessment on how to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war after mentioning the Biden administration allowing Ukraine to fire US-made missiles into Russia, fueling fears of further escalation by the Kremlin. “It just looks like everybody’s coming on board...