Bill Maher Admits Trump Had a Point About California Forest Management

(Mediaite)

Bill Maher admitted that even though he made jokes about it at the time, President-elect Donald Trump had a point in his criticism of California’s forest management.

On Friday’s Real Time, billionaire and former Los Angeles gubernatorial candidate Rick Caruso joined Maher to discuss California’s response to expansive fires that have destroyed thousands of homes. During their discussion, Maher conceded that Trump had a point about “raking” vegetation during California wildfires in 2020.

“I remember when we had a fire when Trump was president, and he came in and he said, ‘you don’t rake, you’re not raking. And I did — we all did jokes about it. But, we’ve got to get over this thing,” Maher said. “Is he wrong, usually? Yeah. But I’m not going to — I remember when he took Ivermectin or something and then Ivermectin, which won the Nobel Prize, and it was like that became snake oil. No, just because Trump says it doesn’t mean it’s automatically wrong. Did he have a point about that?”