Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Oh, it's okay. You guys said I appreciate it.

No, there's so much to talk about. I tell you, watching news in the Trump era,

it's like picking up rocks after a heavy rain.

You know you're gonna see something gross under there.

So our president outdid himself, you know what he did this week, right?

On Monday he called the widow of a fallen soldier to console her.

And by Tuesday he was calling her a liar.

Who knew empathy was so complicated.

And then on top of all that, he turns it into an insult on Obama.

Is this Obama didn't call anybody?

You know Truman had that sign on his nest, the buck stops here.

Trump has a sign, keep going buck.

So we found out that he is just as good with Gold Star families as he is with hurricanes.

On the bright side, maybe we have hit upon a way to keep Trump from starting a war.

Tell him, hey, think of all the calls you're gonna have to make.

But of course here in California, we've got our own problems.

We have 15 major wildfires that have burned over 200,000 acres.

In fact the smoke got so thick that the executives at Miramax couldn't see what was going on right in front of their face.

Of course this is California where a political correctness is kind of thick too.

So we couldn't actually start fighting the fires until we had a big debate about the term flame retardant.

Now we're good to go.

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