Bill Maher On Total Solar Eclipse: Trump Voters Even More In The Dark

During Friday's episode of his HBO political talk show, "Real Time," comedian Bill Maher continued to malign President Trump, this time seizing on the president's post-Charlottesville comments that there were "fine people" on both sides of the deadly violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally.

"I didn't agree with everything George Bush did after 9-11, but he didn't side with al Qaeda," said Maher. "He didn't say, 'Some of the hijackers were fine people.'"

The lowest point of the Trump administration was Tuesday, Maher said, when Trump have a press conference in which he doubled down on his earlier statements. (For more national political news, sign up for the free White House Patch email newsletter.)

"As he launched into his defense of neo-Nazis, who were chanting, 'Jews will not replace us,' standing beside him was his Jewish Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, and his Jewish economic council head, Gary Cohn. Now, neither one of them has plans to quit, but if they do, Jews will replace them," joked Maher.

After riffing, "Speaking of getting rid of racist eyesores, Steve Bannon is out," Maher noted that 92 percent of the counties in the path of totality of Monday's total solar eclipse voted for Trump.

"Just what we need, these people even more in the dark," he said.

Watch Maher's monologue below:

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Photo credit: YouTube screen capture/ Real Time with Bill Maher