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Bill Maher has spoken out on how his recent meeting with Donald Trump went down.
On March 31, Republican supporter Kid Rock went to the White House alongside Maher, who has long voiced his dislike of President Trump.
With this in mind, the country singer wanted to 'unite' the US by having the pair meet face-to-face to see how things went — and much to everyone's surprise, it went quite well.
Apparently, Maher and Trump even had things in common. Chatting on Varney & Co the day after their momentous get-together, music star Kid Rock (real name Robert James Ritchie) said: "We talked about a lot of things that he had in common. Bill Maher is a big supporter of Trump's stance on the border, of ending wokeism.
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"The president even asked him about policy and what he thought with Iran getting nuclear weapons."
The singer was quick to give everyone an update on how the meeting that he put together went, but Maher remained schtum and saved his thoughts for his newest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, which aired last night (April 12).
Starting his 'Book Report' segment, Maher said he and Kid Rock agreed that 'there's gotta be something better than hurling insults at each other from 3,000 miles away' in reference to the swipes both he and Trump have made at one another.
He continued: "For all the people who treated this like it was some sort of summit meeting, you're ridiculous. Like I was gonna sign a treaty or something? I'm a f***ing comedian, I have no power.
"He's the most powerful leader in the world, I'm not the leader of anything, expect maybe a contingent of center-ist minded people who think that there's got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute."
Maher's sentiments were met with a round of applause from the audience.
The comedian then shared that he took a list of 60 insults that the president has said about him — including calling him a 'dummy' — for Trump to sign, which he did 'with good humor'.
He went on to say that he 'didn't go MAGA' but he didn't feel any pressure from Trump to do so.
"The guy I met isn't the same person who, the night before the dinner, sh*t tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how he thought this dinner was a bad idea," Maher continued.
Elsewhere he insisted that Trump is 'much more self-aware than he lets on in public' and that everything he ever disliked about him was 'absent' at their dinner.
What do you think about it all? Could Trump and Maher become friends?
