This past Friday night, in addition to getting bested by Steve Bannon, Bill Maher also welcomed Fareed Zakaria as his guest on HBO’s Real Time. Zakaria returned the favor, hosting Maher on his Sunday morning CNN show.
And just as Maher opened his interview with Bannon—“your boy had the best week so far”—he told Zakaria he thought it was Trump’s “best week ever,” and therefore his own “most depressing week” of the Trump presidency.
From the “Teleprompter Trump” that America saw at the State of the Union to “veiled threats” against political enemies at his impeachment victory lap speech two days later, Maher said, “The worst thing that could possibly have happened, that we all feared and talked about, has happened. He’s normalized. Anything you see enough becomes normal. You don’t notice it.”
