“Real Time” host Invoice Maher took goal Friday at President Donald Trump’s supposedly “manly administration” and mocked Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, who held a purportedly pressing assembly Tuesday with high U.S. army officers — and body-shamed them.
Maher started his opening monologue on Friday by broaching the ongoing authorities shutdown, joking that Trump will negotiate the problem “in good faith” by persevering with his renovations on the White Home ballroom, that are estimated to price $200 million.
“Trump knows how to negotiate this,” Maher joked Friday concerning the shutdown. “We’re going to get over this, you know how you do it? You get everybody in a room — preferably a ballroom — and you say, ‘Nobody’s leaving here until you check out these cherubs.’”
“Cherubs, oh, this is a manly administration,” he continued.
Trump introduced the renovations in July and, regardless of the federal authorities formally stalling on Wednesday amid persevering with price range disagreements, has since declared that the mission received’t be slowed — and has posted a stream of baffling memes on social media.
Maher mocked one other instance of the administration’s supposed manliness, noting Hegseth ordered greater than 800 U.S. army generals and admirals Tuesday to Quantico, Virginia for an emergency assembly Maher argued has since been proven to be something however.
The previous Fox Information persona had assembled America’s high brass to champion their “warrior ethos” — solely to scold “fat generals and admirals,” “dudes in dresses” and the “unprofessional” grooming of service members with beards, or so-called “beardos.”
“Because that is the thing you want to do most,” Maher stated Friday. “You want to get your most critical people in the command structure all gathered in one room. Hopefully with the doors locked from the outside. And then Pete gave them a TED Talk.”
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“Are you kidding?” added the comic and political pundit. “This is supposed to be an exercise in morale building. Because nothing pumps you up like taking a 22-hour flight to be yelled at by a Fox News dry drunk about your love handles.”
Hegseth’s alleged alcohol abuse was reportedly so rampant that his former Fox Information colleagues voiced their concern following his nomination by Trump in November. Hegseth has additionally confronted sexual abuse allegations. He has denied each.
His speech on Tuesday drew notable criticism from considered one of his former colleagues.
“It’s funny, half the speech was about a ‘warrior ethos’ that we want, and manly men,” Maher stated Friday. “And the other half was grooming tips. Because nothing says ‘warrior ethos’ like, ‘What products do you use?’ So, to recap: No gays, just buff, hairless men.”
