Comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher took aim at the Conservative Political Action Conference, insulting its attendees during his show.
“It was a virtual Woodstock of the mentally impaired,” Maher said Friday, naming speakers Glenn Beck, Devin Nunes, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and President Trump.
The liberal comedian said that people shouldn’t be surprised that President Trump thinks “he’s God’s gift to America” because he is constantly receiving that message.
“Stop acting so surprised that Trump thinks he’s God’s gift to America because that’s exactly what Evangelicals keep telling him he is,” Maher said.
Maher then played a clip of the speech at CPAC by businessman Mike Lindell, the inventor of MyPillow and an avid Trump supporter.
“I see the greatest president in history. Of course he is, he was chosen by God,” Lindell said in the clip.
Last week at the annual conservative conference close to Washington, D.C., Trump gave a two-hour speech, the longest speech of his presidency.
Maher, who in 2012 donated $1 million to a political action committee founded by Obama, has a history of outrageous statements. He came under fire earlier this year for making a joke to a black Republican congressman about fried chicken, previously earned criticism for comparing Melania Trump to Holocaust victims, and was condemned by HBO for a “completely inexcusable and tasteless” incident where he used the N-word during a conversation with Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.
