Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher said that despite being a longtime critic of former President George W. Bush, he wouldn’t mind sitting down and having a conversation with the Texas politician.
Maher, on his “Club Random” podcast, told former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush that with President Donald Trump in the White House again, he had turned around on a few issues, changing his mind particularly about how important it was to talk to people even when they hold very different views.
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I was hard [on Bush]— I’m not taking it back. I wasn’t for the invasion of Iraq, or just the basic Republican policies that he championed were not exactly my cup of tea. But I also have things more in perspective. He should know that, yes, I probably, looking back, could have been more reasonable,” Maher said.
Maher did say that he was not totally opposed to Bush’s idea to privatize Social Security: “It wasn’t like the worst idea.”
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Maher also praised Bush for encouraging former President Barack Obama after he won the 2008 presidential election. “We want you to succeed,” Bush said to his successor — and Maher couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Trump and saying that was something “you can’t imagine Donald Trump saying.”
But according to multiple sources, President Trump did leave the traditional note for President Joe Biden despite a contentious 2020 campaign — and although the contents of the note were never publicly revealed, Biden described it as a “very generous letter.” Biographer Chris Whipple took the description a step further, saying that Biden had found the letter to be “shockingly gracious.”
In a 2023 interview, Trump confirmed he’d left a “nice” letter for Biden and that he “took a lot of time in thinking about it” before he put pen to paper. He stopped short of revealing what he’d written, however, saying that it would be up to Biden to decide whether or not to do so.
