"I met the dude at [a] dinner with his wife, who was genuinely a wonderful person and he was thinking of moving to Los Angeles and being a movie producer, Allen said. Really? an amused Maher said. Allen said the dinner with the president and Melania Trump happened around his last or second-to-last season starring on The Apprentice which would put the meal in the 2014-15 range. And he was talking about movies. He said I really like the film business.'"
"This is what the left hated me [for] that I went to the White House and talked and did not lie and say Here's a monster in the White House,' Maher said. You got to deal with him on a personal level. Later in the episode, Allen said he noticed Trump lost the twinkle in his eye for Tinseltown when they talked more about the moviemaking business."
"He wanted to know what you do if ticket sales are bad on a $200 million flick. When Allen said there wasn't much you can do, Trump asked, Yeah, but you got to make up the loss somehow. How do you make up the loss? The comedian told him there were small tax breaks, but otherwise studios just lost their money."
Tim Allen met Donald Trump and Melania Trump at a dinner around 2014–15 when Trump expressed interest in moving to Los Angeles to become a film producer. Trump showed enthusiasm for the film business and admired Allen's comedic talent. Trump asked practical questions about recovering losses on a $200 million movie and pressed on ways to make up a box-office shortfall. Allen explained that aside from small tax breaks, studios typically absorb losses. Upon learning that, Trump immediately decided not to enter film production. Bill Maher observed that Trump listens and can be engaged on a personal level.
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