“Real Time” host Bill Maher called out President Donald Trump Friday over his series of “bullshit” claims about the ongoing war on Iran, calling his baffling declarations of victory a “problem” as negotiations amid the current U.S.-Iran ceasefire have yet to produce results.
Maher noted during his opening monologue that Trump has “erratically” veered from threats to destroy Iranian civilization earlier this month to being “so chill” about the conflict. Trump indeed claimed Thursday that he is “the least pressured person ever to be in this position.”
Trump has frequently described his war as an “excursion” or “military operation.” He openly admitted last month that there’s “a legal reason for that,” stating that a U.S. president requires congressional approval before officially — and legally — declaring war.
“And now it’s like, is it really a war?” Maher asked Friday. “It’s more of a ‘situation,’ really, I think. And the problem is he keeps saying we won, and we didn’t. We didn’t. Hormuz is not open. The people did not do an uprising. The regime is still in place. We did not win. Sorry!”
He continued, “And in social media, he keeps rubbing their noses in the victory we don’t have. Every day — every day — he tweets out stuff that’s inflammatory and contradictory, all these bullshit claims. I gotta say, you can say what you want about his negotiating tactics.”
