Invoice Maher and Michael Douglas are lastly discussing their ideas on the 2024 election outcomes, which noticed Donald Trump defeat Kamala Harris.
The Actual Time with Invoice Maher host kicked off the most recent present along with his opening monologue, saying, “Lots of people are freaking out. You understand what? I opened the window right now, the solar was nonetheless shining, the birds had been nonetheless singing, my gardener was packing for Mexico, that’s the factor.”
“I didn’t vote for the winner,” he continued. “We’ll see what the winners do, now that they gained. Now they’ve actuality they need to take care of, . We’ll see what they do, see in the event that they stay as much as their phrase. Trump says he’s gonna deport 12 million individuals. How are you gonna get 12 million individuals again into Mexico? And right now Trump stated, ‘I’m method forward of you. Why do you suppose I left so many holes within the wall?’”
The comic added, “For months, Democrats have been saying, ‘How is that this even shut?’ They usually’re proper, it wasn’t. They might not conceive of a second Trump time period, however they need to have. When does America ever flip down seconds?”
Maher later introduced in his first visitor, Douglas, who expressed his disappointment on the final result of the presidential election but additionally shared a optimistic second he had this week amid the chaos.
“The opposite factor I simply need to share, after Tuesday night time, Wednesday morning, [I’m] simply so pissed at this razor-thin race,” the Oscar winner stated. “It was gonna be so shut, with all these polls … and it’s a wipeout. I had no concept how that would occur. So, I am going down Wednesday morning to play golf simply to clear my thoughts. I am going play 9 holes, and I get a hole-in-one.”
Elsewhere throughout their dialog, the actor additionally introduced up inflation and the demise of the center class, telling Maher, “The actual fact now that we are able to speak about Republicans as being the social gathering for the individuals, and we’re this elitist social gathering on the left, Democrats, is wild.”
Earlier this 12 months, Douglas portrayed Benjamin Franklin within the Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin. He additionally produced and appeared within the documentary America’s Burning, which dives into the nation’s financial divide.
The opposite friends featured on the most recent episode of Actual Time had been John Heilemann and Sarah Isgur.