Political comedian Bill Maher made an endorsement of sorts Friday night, urging Republicans to choose Ted Cruz over Donald Trump.
Trump, the businessman-turned-candidate, “might be our last president,” Maher warned.
Maher, a self-proclaimed liberal, does not want either GOP candidate to win the election, but in a message directed to both liberals and Republicans, the comedian and political commentator said “there always is a more-correct choice.”
“[Democratic candidate] Hillary Clinton is not a sure thing. You need a fallback besides suicide and Canada,” Maher said.
In an announcement preceded by a dramatic drum roll, Maher said, “I fore-squarely choose Ted Cruz” over Trump, before pouring a mouthful of “bleach” into his mouth and swishing it around before spitting it out. He then pretended to vomit off the side of his desk as he reiterated his “support for Cruz.”
The reason for his decision to choose Cruz over Trump, Maher said, is that Trump is “a lunatic.”
Maher said he couldn’t rule out making people “disappear.” Maher also wondered what a Trump might do to him as commander in chief, in light of a 2013 lawsuit in which Trump said Maher breached an agreement after the comedian said he would donate $5 million to a charity if Trump could prove he was not the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”
“Donald Trump is like Ebola. He’ll violently kill you right away,” Maher said. “Cruz is more like the Zika virus. We won’t see the damage until future generations.”
He quipped that Trump is the most “thinned-skinned person in human history and reacts to the smallest slight with the hair-trigger wounded ego of a male flight attendant.”
Meanwhile, he said Cruz is “immune to insults, because he’s learned to live in a world where everyone, everywhere has always hated him,” a riff on his critics’ claim that Cruz is “the most hated man in the Senate.”
“Ted Cruz will be our worst president, but Donald Trump might well be our last,” Maher concluded. He then put on a hat that read, “Better Ted than Dead.”
