Comedian Bill Maher has been heavy on the explosion of an oval office between President Trump, Vice President Vance and Ukrainian President Voldy Zelensky, calling the controversial meeting “the real housewife of the White House.”
“I'm sure Trump thinks it's good TV to be left to the screams,” Maher said in HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher” edition on Friday night.
The talk show host then showed a clip of a passionate exchange in which Trump told Zelensky “will not tell us what we are feeling,” after Zelensky insisted that he did not feel the direct consequences of the Russian-Ukrain war across its distance from Eastern Europe.
Maher then characterized Spat as “the real housewife of the White House” referring to the popular reality television show that first aired in 2006.
The Trump and Zelensky bilateral meeting held at the White House on Friday fell off the rail when the president claimed he was running diplomacy to seal the peace deal and later claimed he was “disrespectful” by discussing with two leaders in front of a news outlet.
The Vice President said Zelensky should “be grateful to the President for trying to end his conflict.”
Zelensky's claim that the US does not feel the consequences of the conflict because it is on another continent sparked a strong response from Trump.
“You don't have a card now. Trump warns Zelensky once again to the head of Ukraine, “You are gambling with millions of people, you are gambling with World War II.”
Maher summed up the confrontational huddle with the word “deplorable.”
“The best day to become an American. So my first thought is that he's raising this big brow with a guy who speaks English as a second language. I just – it's just. So, we all agree that this is deplorable,” Maher said Friday night. “You know, I have not tried to use as much deplorable words as possible, but when it is deplorable, it is deplorable!”
“And the person who likes it. So that's a lamentable perspective,” he added.
Hours after the White House meeting, Trump insisted that Zelensky was not ready to sign a peace deal, and later Kiev leaders told reporters that he “overestimated his hand.”
Zelensky told Fox News that he would not apologise for his meeting, but in his view it was bad for both sides.
The Ukrainian president tried to repair relations between Kiev and Washington on Saturday morning, writing that a lasting peace agreement, along with our involvement, was “difficult.”
“It's difficult without the support of the US. But we cannot lose our will, our freedom, or our people. We've seen how Russians came to our homes and killed many people,” Zelensky wrote on X on Saturday morning. If it is not accepted by NATO, a clear structure of security guarantees from US allies is required. ”
