wledged about Trump. One, he's not a monster in person because they had dinner together. Now, he says, "I still disagree with all of his policies, a bunch of policies, but I have to say that in person, he's not Hitler." So that's a start. Then correct me if I'm wrong, Bill Maher agrees with Trump on the trans issue in sports. He believes that Trump did a good job on the border, if not a great job. He praised Trump for the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities. I think Maher was way on board with that. He likes the fact that Trump is pushing American patriotism. I think he likes that. And he does believe that the Republicans, weirdly, are the free speech party now and that all the wokeness and all that stuff was coming from his own team and that the anti-semitism might be coming from his own side. So I may be mischaracterizing some of his opinion there. So don't blame him if he heard it from me.

But here's what jumped out at me. Apparently, Bill Maher had a very firm opinion about what would happen with tariffs and he thought it would tank the economy and that by now we would see all that chaos it caused, which he acknowledges didn't happen. And so my question is this, why did he have certainty that turned out to be wrong? Why did he have certainty about tariffs? What would cause you to have any kind of certainty about which direction that was going to go? You could have optimism. You could have pessimism. But it almost sounded like he had something closer to certainty that it was a mistake. Where would he get that certainty? From watching TV and watching and reading the New York Times, right? And whatever else. You don't get that certainty on something you've had no exposure to and nobody's ever done and there are smart people on both sides. You don't get certainty from that.

I'll say again that the wisest opinion I heard on tariffs the entire time, the wisest opinion was Dana Perino who said, "Can't tell. We'll just wait and see. No way to know. Just wait and see." And so I adopted her opinion. I said the same. I was like, "Don't ask me. We've never done this. We don't know how Trump's going to play it. We don't know if it's just a negotiation. We don't know if he's going to be flexible. We don't know how many times he's going to be unpredictable and change things. We don't know. It could work and it might not." So to me, that was the only reasonable take. It might work. You just don't know. And now we know that it did.

You just watch what is left of all the things that Bill Maher once thought about Trump. He also used to believe that only the Republicans doubted the elections. And then it was Megyn Kelly who showed him a compilation clip of Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders doubting that Trump really won. So he knows that. He also knows the fine people hoax was a hoax. What's left? What does he have left? That he wishes Trump didn't cut healthcare. But even the cuts to healthca