On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher dodged multiple questions about whether the country was better off under President Joe Biden and concluded by saying, “We’re worse off than we were in 2018.” No,” he said.
Maher began by saying that Trump “couldn’t even think of a piece of paper” when it came to health care. They didn’t even have a plan. So, to me, that’s exactly what Donald Trump is, a con man who promises something and then gives nothing. Obamacare, on the other hand, was real. ”
Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Unger Sargon asked, “So, Bill, do you think this country is better off now than it was four years ago?” Regarding this immigration, can you really say with a straight face that economically we are better off now than we were in 2018? I think I’m better now than I was four years ago, really? ”
Maher responded, “Well, in the middle of all that, the pandemic happened, and we completely overreacted to it.” He also said there was a recovery from the pandemic orchestrated by Biden.
Prime Minister Unger-Sargon asked again: “Do you think this country is better now than it was four years ago?”
Maher said: “Then we had these…two big economic crises in this century, I think. One was the meltdown of 2008, where Obama came out, and people like Mitt Romney, not Drama Obama, destroyed the auto industry. I told them to let him die, but they didn’t. This country didn’t go into a recession, and it could have if the president was wrong. I also think I got the president wrong. Our country didn’t go into recession. has bounced back from the pandemic better than any other large country in the world. So I think it matters who the president is.”
Unger Sargon then asked, “Do you think we are better now than we were four years ago?”
Maher replied, “Four years ago was 2020?”
Unger Sargon rephrased the question, saying he was asking whether the situation was better than in 2018, not 2020.
Continuing his response to the 2020 question, Maher said: “I don’t know, I was wearing a mask. I hated my life.”
Unger Sargon asked again, “In 2018, are we better now than in 2018?”
Maher replied: How are we getting worse, in what ways are we getting worse, what is so bad that didn’t happen in 2018? ”
In response to a question from Maher, Prime Minister Unger-Sargon said: “Ask the American people: Inflation, immigration crisis, 8 million people who are here illegally and we don’t know who they are. “I am.” he answered.
Maher replied, “Well, crimes are committed all the time.”
Unger Sargon added, “People can’t afford to buy a house because of the high mortgage interest rates.”
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) then interjected, saying, and Maher agreed, that if Trump builds a wall, there may not be as many people left in this country. Ryan and Marr then said Trump did nothing on immigration and watered down the Senate’s border bill because Republicans wanted to keep the border issue an issue.
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