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

Thank you so much. Thank you ladies and gentlemen I appreciate you putting on a brave

face because I you made it through a whole week of the national emergency and yeah

because of the invasion coming up from Mexico we have to do our part on the home front

have you seen salsa say something so Donald Trump dealing with the emergency

spent the week golfing golfing and poop tweeting and and and you know I was afraid

this is going to happen it's getting a little close to home for me now because

he's now starting to threaten comedians he was very upset about side-out live last week

and he said why isn't there retribution what the fuck does that mean retribution for

comedians and Alec Baldwin now who plays Trump of course as he now fears for his family

safety and they were scared enough already being Alec Baldwin's family so and of course

Trump somehow he has the time dealing with the national emergency to be tweeting about

Jesse Smollett or Smollett I don't know the pronounce that but he was Jesse

up for a poor day was charged with a felony for filing a false police report because if

there is one thing Trump cannot abide it is a self-serving liar

and of course of course Fox News loves this story of course because it proves

their stupid theory that racism is a hoax they're saying Fox News that the mainstream

media is uncovering the Jesse Smollett story isn't covering up seven of them just died

in a stampede but you know Jesse he wanted to raise his profile so he allegedly

paid two men thirty five hundred dollars to assault him for being black and gay something

he could have gotten for free in Texas I can't Texas I love Texas and and the too many

hired allegedly were were at least one of them was an extra an empire Jesse what

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