Real Time with Bill Maher - Overtime – Episode #684: Rep. Byron Donalds, Tara Palmeri

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Bill Maher and his guests answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 2/7/25) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're made for negotiate. And the T.D. is there to you Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series, Real Time with Bill Maugh. All right, Congressman from Florida Byron Donald's and Puck News of Senior Political Correspond and a host of the Somebody's Gonna Win, Pomcast, Tara Palmary.

Okay. All right. Will Kendrick Lamar perform not like us, his disc track aimed at Drake at the Super Bowl? Important questions all, these people. You got to? You got some. It's a great song. It's a great song?

Great song. Okay. Great song. And what is his beef with Mr. Drake? Damn, if I know, but it's... You just like this song. I just like the song. Okay.

What do you think of Ron DeSantis' wife, Casey, potentially running for Florida's governorship herself? Wouldn't be the first time, George Wallace. Remember George Wallace? The racist governor of Alabama and his, I think his... wife took over when he was very claire underwood what do you think you may be running uh for uh governor yourself i mean nobody's in a race right now so we'll see what happens oh you mean you might jump in there you got to ask the reporter my sources tell me that fire and donald is a favorite uh Casey

is doing well too in the polls and matt gates surprisingly yeah he does well in the polls in florida He does. Yeah. We'll see what happens. I had him on my podcast. You know, everybody's a monster until you talk to them. Yeah.

No, I'm sorry. What I meant to say is everybody's a monster, period. What do you think of the Trump? What do you think of the Trump White House admitting more influencers and podcasts to, oh, into the press corps? Yeah, the press room is different.

I mean, it reflects America. I think it's great. Yeah, you do? But it's mostly right-wing. influencers and podcasters, obviously, but I think it's a good step. I mean, this is how people are getting their news. It is. I mean, how can you deny it?

I was actually over there the other day, and it's packed in there. And I think even though all the reporters, whether you're legacy or the podcasting people, they're all happy, and then they have, like, the one rotating chair, which I guess is pretty cool. So there's always, like, somebody new that comes in. You're at the White House? You're at the White House? You're talking about?

Yeah. Yeah. But it was Axios that they gave the new media seat to, and that is to Mike Allen, who is like an established reporter in Washington. Axis has been around for like five years, sold for $500 million. I don't really consider it new media,

and I thought it was interesting that that was their first new media... It is. It is going to be it, because old media sells for a dollar. That is true. What do you mean by that? Well, that's what Bezos bought the Washington Post for. He bought up like a dollar, didn't he?

So, you know... Well, that's because he's... He's worth like half a trillion dollars. So it was... Yeah. It's all relative. But I'm interested in... this, you're at the White House? What were you just

hanging around? I know some people over there. You know. No, I'm asking. You're like, you have that kind of carte blanche? You can just walk. Oh, no, no. No, I was there for, I think it was an education event that the president did. And a lot of the staff, I know from the campaign trail. Right. So walking in there, it was like I was on the campaign trail,

so everybody's just saying hello, hugging, let me show you my office. So I was kind of walking around. Got a stand to see the, you know, the press room. They go, stand at the podium. I'm like, no. I'm not going to do that. Give them four more years, right? Well, then maybe you can answer this one.

Has Mar-a-Lago culture, to actually addressed to you, come to D.C.? Are the cruel kids popular? Yeah, I mean, I think just the aesthetic of Mar-a-Lago and the people around Donald Trump, they haven't even just changed D.C. They've changed Palm Beach. It's like the long platinum blonde hair, the big eyelashes, the bucle fat removal. the lip filler.

They look like Christy Knoem. Or, um, I don't know. Sounds like Hollywood. Mara Trump. Yeah, it's a look. It's very, Kim, Gilfuel. And actually, in Palm Beach,

they're calling it, like, the Mar-Lago look, and they're asking plastic surgeons for it. It's only a matter of time before it comes to D.C. And everybody's looking like that. In red, tight red dresses, you know. I'm getting excited.

I don't know. The blazer will be gone. Byron, can you get me? Listen, I'll talk to the president. We'll get you in. I was kidding. It's never too early to plan your summer story in Europe with WestJet, from rolling countryside to cobblestone streets. Begin your next chapter.

Book your seat at westjet.com or call your travel agent. WestJet, where your story takes off. Do you think Trump will attend the White House correspondence dinner in April? Well, I mean, many people say attending the correspondence date, that year that Obama made fun of him from the podium is what was the motivator for him to get into the presidential race to begin with. I mean, he had been talking about it for years, so I don't think it's just that. But what do you think? I think he will probably do it this time, and I think he'll go there and just like spank the press and be absolutely ruthless. Whereas last time,

I don't know why he didn't go last time. I think he just has this different sort of energy. He feels like he owns the press. No, I think he was really just piss. with the press and it was like, why am I showing up? But I think now, he's in this, I think for him, he's in this mode of I'm president again. You were all against me, but I won. So I'm going to do the victory lap.

So I can see him definitely going, hitting the press a little bit, but then also being a little magnanimous and enjoying the event and taking off. Not that part. That part is not happening. But, look, I mean, everybody did count them out. You know, everybody said it would never happen again.

I mean, I didn't count them out. Right, no, no. And that's why you get to walk around whenever you want. He loves loyalty. We know that. Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that Trump is serious. Yes, I saw that. He thinks Trump is serious about annexing Canada and making it a 51st date.

I mean, really, walk me through the mechanics. Okay. Greenland, Gaza. Now? The question is, how many electoral college votes are they going to get? That's the real question,

because there are a lot of liberals up there. Not all, though. That's true. Canada is not quite the place you think it is everywhere, especially the western... Lumberjacks and, like, yeah.

Lumberjacks are conservative. That's why I think it should be a territory. Why take the chance? A territory? You're kidding, right? Oh. See, I don't know when you guys are kidding or not. That's the thing.

There's no parody that rises above what the reality is. So you're going to have to tell me if you're kidding or not. I think everything is on the table until it's not. Including taking over Canada. No, no, no, no. We like the Canadians. So they can be a sovereign country? Yes, they can be.

We like the Puerto Ricans too, right? We love Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's great. Well, Puerto Rico is, they're already American citizens. Of course they are, yeah. That's right. I mean, we'll see what happens. We wouldn't throw paper towels are just anybody.

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