Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime - Episode #440: Trump Feuds, Leftist Dems, Sleaze

Episode Date: October 7, 2017

Bill and his guests – Russell Brand, Olivia Nuzzi, Steve Schmidt, and former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. – answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 10/6/17) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night series Real Time with Bill Maugh. We're back here with everybody on the internet. Oh, it's better on the internet. Oh, so much better.

Oh, television. It's too much bloody regulation like in your monologue. Overegulated. Now we're free, finally. There's nothing in that. A little bit. Right.

We are, we could be completely free. Open your shirt if you... Yeah, another button. It's... Oh. Okay. All right. Can we talk about anything serious?

Because I'll compose myself if we are. No. Fuck no. It's an entertainment show. Olivia, what do you make of the strange relationship between Trump and Scarborough and Brzezinski? Those are the hosts of our morning news show called Morning Joe.

I went on that before. You did. Memorably. It was memorable. I remember it. Yeah, he antagonizes them. you're president that you've got? Well, he used to be friends, right?

Is that the deal? And then they became unfriendly and he accused her of having a bad facelifted. It was just... That was the gist. Yeah, I mean, they were friendly. Joe Scarborough was accused of being too kind to him

throughout the election when it really mattered in terms of people taking him seriously at the beginning, especially. But he turned. Joe turned. Yeah, they did become critical and sort of

in a very emotional way. personal. Personal from them or Trump? Both. I mean, really? Trump was, you know, Trump started attacking them in a really

vitriolic way, you know, even more than a year ago, insinuating that they had some kind of, you know, personal relationship that was untoward in some way. Which they did. And, you know. Right? And.

Aren't they a couple? Yeah, but untoward, I said. He was kind of, he was sort of, he was suggesting that there was something going on that wasn't okay. What's an untoward? What's a... Anyway, it became personal. Something sleazy.

Something uncomfortable. Monkey business. Callabaloo. Filth. Smat. Mucky business. It's got to be stout down. Like what?

It became very... I don't know. We've got to get to the roots of it. It became very personal. And then as president, you know, he attacked her for having plastic surgery and claimed, incorrectly, there were photos of this event that she was bleeding at Mar-a-Long- Yeah. So... He's obsessed with that, isn't he? He's obsessed with the iconography of femininity.

That's actually true misogyny. Yeah, no, he's a bad, he's a bad dude. I'm getting the idea you don't like him. I don't like him and I... He sued me once, you know. Honest? Yeah, absolutely. Soothed me. What form, mate?

You can't, yeah, I could not even... I'll try to tell you. He... You know, he had a birth thing. He accused Obama of not being born here. I remember that. We saw that in England. We were bemused. Okay.

So, so... After Obama released his birth certificate, then Trump went after his college records, as if it was suspicious that a black eye would be in college. He's working his way through his life. He starts at the birth certificate, then the college, and then who knows what next? So I said, and he offered... At least it's chronological. Right. That in a way is more than I thought him capable of.

He understands how time works. At least one aspect of it, linear time. Linear time. I'm right. So listen to the... Al, beyond. I'll sue you. This is America, in it? That can happen.

Yeah, it totally could happen. That's why we need a little less regulation. But what the fuck was saying that Trump sues you. You get sued by Trump in this story. All right. Let me finish. All right. So, he offered... He offered Obama.

Trump offered Obama $5 million if he would release his college records. I know that itself is. GOST offered the President. It's vulgar. It's vulgar. That wouldn't happen with the queen. He's a vulgar man. Okay. So I, as a joke, offered Trump $5 million if he could prove he was not the son of an orangutan.

Because we showed this picture... Because he has the same color hair as the orange hair and orangutan. Yeah, there it is. Well, we had this... There it is. That's good. So... So...

So, this moron, there's... sues me to because he went into court with his birth certificate. I made Trump produce his birth certificate because he's such an idiot. He went in as if it was going to say orangutan on the as if that was even possible for a human to have a baby with a... And so he sued me for the $5 million because he proved he wasn't an orangutan. He's also... I can't, and now he's the president. I can't even... He's also fundamentally misunderstood the theory of evolution. Among many other things. I feel like it explains so much

about Trump though, it's so stupid, but he just loves to fuck with people. And I think you can really, you can look at so many things that he's done now in the White House and explain it by saying, oh, well, he's just fucking with people, which is not what you want in a president, obviously, which is not a partisan thing to say, it's just factual.

It doesn't mean I'm on a team. It's just factual to say, to criticize it. Okay, we're not on the same team. It's just, it's not a team. It's just not a team. Right, let's not have team. I'm so anti-team. You know, I don't have a team. Yeah, it's just like reality and then other stuff. Right.

And anyway, I go with whoever makes the most sense, which is mostly the Democrats. Not always. Harold, is the Democratic Party moving too far left? Some parts of it are. I define left by just sort of being unrealistic about what can get done.

Democrats came out, I guess it was a few months ago, with a plan called a Better Deal to help what our plan was to help grow the economy and create more jobs and raise wages. That'll start a fire. Right, and it didn't really resonate with anybody. I think we've got to talk about growing again. We've got to talk about protecting people's privacy.

This Equifax thing where people, 140 million Americans had their data stolen. We as a party have got to stand up for that, but at the same time figure out how we're going to grow businesses, grow wages, and for that matter, grow the economy. And we can do it without taking from people. We can do it by growing the economy. And we do that, I think we'll begin to get on path to getting something that will resonate with more Americans. Because something, as much as we talk about this guy, and is out of control as he is on foreign policy, and economic ideas, he won the race. And it was nine months, it seems like it was nine years ago.

It was only nine, ten months ago that he was installed as president. We've got to understand we're not going to win again just by complaining about him. If he offers a tax plan, we've got to counter with a tax plan. If he offers a health plan that's bad, we've got to offer a health plan that's better. I think what Bernie Sanders did around the single-payer plan, I like Obamacare. I think parts of it are working. We've got to figure out how we shored up and strengthen it to abandon it like Bernie wanted to do right away.

I don't think it was the right thing to do, and certainly not what the Republicans proposed doing. So we've got a ways to go. We'll find our way there, and we might even get Russell Brand to help us articulate some of this. Oh, Lill. That's what's required. All right.

I don't understand a word you're saying, but I love listening to you, so I understand everything. Thank you, Bill. Thank you. Sounds to me that some mistakes were made around the time of the Boston Tea Party. Old mad King George don't seem so mad now. That's great.

All right, final question. Russell Brand, what is the sleazyest thing you ever did? Oh, don't say that. I've done some ever-such sleazy things, and now I'm thinking about purity. You just said you. Oh, sleazy. You know, in your past. Like, what was the craziest orgy or whatever, you know? What is the moment?

Bill, if you're referring to the Russell Brand Easter hot tub party, then I'm telling you that was a religious festival. The fact that by the end of it, that hot tub looked like oatmeal is a different matter. All right, thank you, everybody. You ask for sleaze. You've got sleeves. Catch all new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher every Friday night at 10. Or watch them anytime on HBO on demand. For more information, log on to HBO.com.