Maher: Military Parade Is A Bad Idea, But “The Left Does Not Appreciate America Well Enough”
HBO Bill Maher said on Friday’s “Real Time” that while he disapproves of President Donald Trump’s military parade, it once again shows that the left does not “appreciate America well enough.”
BILL MAHER: Trump said, we’re going to celebrate our country for a change. Like so many things with him, like he very often has an idea which in the ether is not a bad idea. I’ve said for years, done many editorials about it, the left does not appreciate America well enough. They don’t have no perspective about it. They think we’re irredeemably racist and horrible and colonialist, as if every other country in the world at one time or another wasn’t like us or even worse. So they just- IAN BREMMER: So let’s learn from the French. MAHER: Why? What do you mean? BREMMER: That’s where Trump got the parade idea from, when he went over and Macron showed him. He’s like, ah, let’s do something the French do. No! But we don’t need to learn from the French. Bad idea. MAHER: As always. But he, like, should we appreciate America more and in more perspective? Yes. But not tanks in the streets. This really worries me. I mean, I just feel like you’re getting- I don’t even know if that’s his grand scheme that’s thought out that much, but you’re getting people used to a sight that we have never seen in this country before. And there are Republicans who speak out against this, too. Senator John Kennedy did. Rand Paul did. Yeah. They’re pretty forceful. So it’s one reason why you should talk to Republicans. They’re not all beyond hope. So what do you think? Am I making too much of this or is it just a parade?
