Bill Maher has an idea for a new show: “The Real Housewives of the White House.”
The Real Time host opened the latest episode of the HBO show by sharing his reaction to the “shouting match” that took place earlier Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“What else is going on? Not much. Nothing comes to mind,” Maher quipped to laughter from the audience. “Oh, in World War 3 news, we’re on the other side now.”
The three leaders got into a tense back and forth during a meeting in the Oval Office, which ultimately led to Zelensky being asked to leave the White House. While Trump, Vance and Zelensky initially met before signing a minerals deal (which never got signed) that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia, according to the Associated Press, Trump ended up berating Zelensky the last 10 minutes of the meeting.
“You’re gambling with World War III, and what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country that’s backed you far more than a lot of people say they should have,” Trump told Zelensky at one point. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that Zelensky’s main objective going into the meeting was to press Trump not to abandon his country and to warn against moving too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Before showing a clip of the heated engagement on Real Time, Maher prefaced, “It devolved into this shouting match, w