“It’s why you’d be a good candidate, you play this game well,” Bill Maher instructed Gavin Newsom tonight on HBO with the savvy California Governor the newest 2028 contender to look on Real Time this yr. “Your future is not in California, your future is in Iowa,” Maher added later, asking Newsom to “dispense with the bullsh*t” and admit if he’s working for President or not.
“We need someone who’s going to be the champion. Are you going to do it or not?”
“I can’t stand the bullshit as well, and I mean that,” the two-term Democrat replied with obvious candor earlier than pivoting. “So, look, but it’s not my purpose or passion. It’s not my meaning. It’s not everything,” Newsom proclaimed.
Newsom then pivoted once more to make asking the query a case of lacking the purpose.
“I deeply respect that the question, but I don’t have any grand plans with respect to that,” the more and more single-minded Governor instructed Maher. “I try to do best I can. I also try to be accountable. By the way, you want things to change, you got to change. And that’s what the podcast is about. That’s my recognition of why we’re weak, and I’ve got to call balls and strikes.”
Summary: I’m working for President, however I’ve obtained plenty of rebranding to do earlier than I make it official.
“You look great, you always do,” Maher gushed to the good-looking Newsom from the drop of their interview. Slipping on his curmudgeon cloak, Maher then proceed stick it to the Governor over the variety of inspections the host’s new roof required. Taking the bureaucratic griping and working with it, the poised Newsom turned his give attention to the failings of “liberal governance” being “process focused and not outcome focused” for a wider viewership of potential major and basic election voters.
The time period restricted Newsom has definitely been enjoying the contrarian the previous couple of months together with his This is Gavin Newsom podcast, Pulling in excessive profile friends from MAGAland’s Charlie Kirk and Steven Bannon to progressives like 2024 VP candidate Gov Tim Waltz of Minnesota and NYT columnist Ezra Klein, the Golden State governor’s podcast has attracted media consideration, profuse reward and scathing criticism – typically from the identical circles.
Which is strictly what the blatantly bold and media divining rod two-term Democrat is aiming for – to be within the dialog together with his conversations. To that, noting that he’s the newest Democrat to audition for the get together devoted and moderation Republicans on Maher’s present, Newsom named dropped a possible rival and previous Real Time visitor, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro tonight as if to supply a passive agressive old school hip hop dis.
More to the purpose, providing Maher some love for his upcoming Kid Rock orchestrated DC go to with Trump, Newsom tuned up the quantity on his new-ish refrain that Democrats must be rooted in the true world within the Trump 2.0 period.
“I’m serious about this, it’s not zero sum,” he mentioned, enjoying political music to Maher’s ears “We’re not winning right now, he won by 2.3 million votes. We lost the House and the Senate, and we’re in a panic. I get it for good reasons. This guy’s not screwing around, but we need to own our mistakes, we need to own what’s wrong with our party.”
After Maher’s monologue and a lame display time joke was interrupted by a “rude as shit” viewers member taking photographs in studios, Real Time swung type the West Coast to the East Coast later within the present tonight After Maher’s sit-down with Newsom, the episode’s panel featured New York Times opinion author John McWhorter and New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott
At the highest of the present, Maher ripped the “idiots” on the National Security group for his or her extraordinarily ill-consider a.okay.a. moronic transfer to discussing a navy assault earlier this month on the Houthis plugging up delivery lanes within the Middle East. Sitting down with the Whorter and Schlott, the Real Time frontman went tougher. Looks like Pete Hegseth picked the mistaken week to give up consuming,” he deadpanned of the faceplanting and inexperienced Defense Secretary who put categorised data on the Signal app chat, then denied it after which mentioned the {hardware}, timing and extra have been simply “attack plans” and no massive deal.
No surprise, Maher on the finish of the present went after Trump, his sycophantic cupboard and the MAGA crowd for threatening our former closest ally Canada and overtly speaking a couple of third time period.
“There’s no fuzz on it, Presidents get two terms,” Maher sternly mentioned. “This is the moment when Rome stops being a Republic,” he concluded telling Republicans to “grow a pair.”
After tonight, Real Time with Bill Maher is off till April 11.