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Was Bill Maher ’s White House shoot the breeze just one part of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav ’s overall outreach to the Trump Administration ?
" Let me first say that to all the people who treated this like it was some sorting of summit meeting , ' You ’re ridiculous . Like I was going to signal a treaty or something ? I have no mightiness . I ’m a fucking comedian , " shared HBO’sReal Time with Bill MaherhostBill Maheron his late - night show , volunteer his rule book write up on how hisKid Rock - order meeting with POtuSDonald Trumpat The White House went . This is the same Maher who gets paid a whole pile of money by Warner Bros. Discovery CEODavid Zaslavto be more than just a " fucking comedian , " someone who has enough " power " to draw in a long ton of viewer every week . Put a pin in that because we ’re go to come back to that .
" The guy I met is not the guy who , the night before the dinner party , asshole - tweeted a bunch of nasty bullshit about how this dinner party was a bad idea and what a deranged asshole I was . Just for starter , he laugh . I ’ve never reckon him express joy in populace . But he does , include at himself . He ’s not fake , " Maher continued , calling someone " not bogus " even though only second before he offer an example of how " fake " Trump is – either when he was hate - twinge or playing nice - overnice with Maher .
" appear , I get it . It does n’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comic . It matter who he is on the world level . I ’m just taking it as a positive that this somebody exists . Because everything I ’ve ever not like about him was — I depone to God — absent , at least on this night with this guy . " Maher added . " A crazy person does n’t live in the White House . A soul who plays a crazy person on TV a mass lives there , which I hump is fucked up . It ’s just not as have it away up as I thought it was . "
Were we surprised to get the report card from Maher that we did ? Nope . The measure that was set was so low that – short of him literally throwing his own quarter at everyone else in The Oval Office – there was no direction that Trump was n’t going to clear it . I intend , Kid Rock ’s unity was on the line here , masses ! So , it was a winnings for Trump because it made him look in force , and it was a win for Maher because he can keep promoting himself as a " moderationist " while making sure he ’s still aim the invites to the party on both sides of the aisle . But was Maher ’s visit also part of a bigger play on Zaslav ’s part to diddle nice with the Trump Administration ?
A profile of Zaslav byMichael WolffforNew Yorkmagazine claims that the multimedia company confirm that a WBD representative reached out latterly " to the Trump eye socket essay advice about how the company might well interact with the White House and improve its trumpet - age odor . " Some of the responses include possibly givingDonald Trump Jr. “a hunt and fishing show on the Discovery Channel " and CNN host " more pro - Trump part " – with Amazon bigwigJeff Bezos ’s recent $ 40 M investiture in a documentary aboutMelania Trump .
" Michael Wolff is a lying sack of tinker’s damn and has been proven to be a fraud . He routinely fabricates tarradiddle develop from his macabre and warped imagination , only potential because he has a severe and debilitating compositor’s case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut - sized psyche , " respondedSteven Cheung , White House Communications Director , when asked for a comment on the reportage byThe Hollywood Reporter .
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