Bill Maher says he will do everything in his power to prevent former President Trump from returning to the Oval Office.
Regarding Trump’s victory in the rematch with President Biden, the host of HBO’s “Real Time” said, “We will do everything we can to prevent that from happening, but none of us have much influence.” . in an interview In Variety, published Wednesday.
“What I’ve decided to do is not preemptively surrender my nervous system to Donald Trump like I did last time, or maybe the last two times,” said Maher, 68.
“If he wins, he wins,” he added.
“This country is polarized. It’s like a prison yard. You’re either on one team or the other,” he says, promoting his new podcast network, Club Random Studios. Maher said.
“Everyone says they want to be in the middle, but really they just go to the corners.”
The liberal commentator and frequent critic of President Trump, who has called the former commander-in-chief “wrong with all the cramming of human beings into one man,” said he is concerned about the November election. He suggested to Variety that he is trying not to sweat the results.
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“So either Trump wins or he doesn’t win,” Maher said.
“And if he becomes president, he’s going to blow up the world or put me in Guantanamo Bay or whatever, but I can’t worry about that all the time.”
Maher has said in the past that he is “afraid” of President Trump “on a very personal level.” “I don’t know what I’ll do in a second term,” the comedian said last year.
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