""It's been two months since Real Time With Bill Maher aired a new episode, and a lot has transpired. (Including, tragically, the death of frequent Real Time guest Rob Reiner.) Maher began the show with enthusiasm, telling the audience, "I missed you too, including the guy who yells, 'Woo!'" But the show returns during an upsetting time for the country, and Maher was blunt about it on several occasions.""
"Maher was also critical of the Trump administration's policy towards Greenland, in which the president announced the beginnings of a deal to avert a crisis that he created. "We are declaring victory for a problem that wasn't there until he made it," Maher said. "It's like when the dog throws up on the rug and then eats it." "These are very serious times, so we needed a very serious person," Maher said when speaking with the episode's first guest."
A late-night political talk program returned after a two-month hiatus amid national unrest and the recent death of frequent guest Rob Reiner. Disturbing images from Minneapolis and the killing of Renée Good were described in stark terms, and the program criticized the administration's Greenland maneuver as declaring victory over a problem created by that maneuver. A retired major general explained that governors can request Pentagon aid and cited historical disaster-relief deployments such as post–Hurricane Andrew. Commentary contrasted using troops for storms and fires with deploying force against civilians and noted differences between military and police roles.
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