The Kennedy Center, whose facade remains draped in tarps since the removal of President Donald Trump’s name following a court order, hosted the annual Mark Twain Prize ceremony, where the award’s recipient, Bill Maher, and other comics took several jibes at the president.
Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher, center left, applauds for John Mellencamp during the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Bill Maher.
Maher—who has both praised and attacked the president several times in the past year—was asked about the tarp on the red carpet and said, “I think it’s hysterical,” and only Trump could think of something like this, Deadline reported.
When asked about his mixed relationship with the president, Maher told CNN the last few times Trump has talked about him in public, it’s “all back to yelling and screaming…we’re back to that.”
Maher, however, insisted that he prefers the “fighting and yelling” if that keeps channels of communication between him and Trump open, rather than thinking the president was “too deplorable to even acknowledge.”
