Bill Maher shut down former CNN host Don Lemon’s racist comments about black supporters of President Donald Trump when he said a “huge faction of the MAGA movement” are “really f***ing racist” and that you can’t be black “and be a rational MAGA person.”
During Lemon’s appearance on Maher’s “Club Random podcast,” the two talked about Tom Hanks’ “Black Jeopardy” sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” in which he reprised his role as a Trump supporter wearing a red MAGA cap.
“I get all the bad things about the [Trump] administration, but if you think they don’t shake black people’s hands, it’s just, you’re wrong,” Maher said in response to the sketch. “It’s just not helpful to think that half the country, that’s where they are.”
Lemon said part of the sketch is comedy, but “let’s be honest,” there’s a “huge faction of the MAGA…