Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO Late Night series, Real Time with Bill Maugh.

All right, here we are. He's an author and a staff writer for the Atlantic in Alberta,

and he's the Daily Wire co-founder's new book. It's called Lions and Scavengers Ben Shapiro.

Okay, here are the questions from the people.

What does the panel think about a West Point alumni group canceling an award who was planning to give to Tom Hanks?

Oh, yes, I have all this information on this.

An actor that Trump has called Woke and Destructive. Yes.

Well, let me read you. I actually have the...

They were going to give Tom Hanks an award

from West Point, uh, the Solvanus Thayer Award. It said, Tom Hanks has done more for the

positive portrayal of the American service member, blah, blah, blah, which is so true. I mean,

when you think about, I mean, my favorite movie of all time is saving private

rights. All time. But I mean, he's played, you know, from the earth to the moon. I mean,

Greyhound, yeah. I mean, a million things where he's, he's a patriot. For the military alone,

I mean, he used to be a big part of bringing these honor flights of vets to D.C. every year.

Well, Trump says, we don't need destructive woke recipients getting our cherished American

awards. So, you know, it's just so typical of how things are probably not going to get

better in this country because it's like, wait, Tom Hanks, oh, we forgot, he's on the blue team,

fuck him.

No. Do not like. Okay. This is disapproof. By the way, I will also say this. I didn't like it when Tom Hanks went on Saturday Night Live and did a sketch where he was wearing a MAGA hat and wouldn't shake hands with a black person. Not helpful.

I disagree.

I thought it was a great sketch because it was a continuation of the earlier sketch where he's dug. But you think that's a fair portrayal of MAGA? No, that's not what the point was, though, Bill. The point was that that sketch was meant to show that Doug, in the continuation of the original sketch, that Doug, on Jeopardy, as a working-class, rural white guy with his MAGA cap on, actually had a tremendous amount in common with the black panelists that he was competing against. And that was the entire idea of the skit was that actually whatever... But why would he not shake hands? Right. That that's the moment that Bill's objecting. No, I understand.

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