'Might be fun': Trump accepts meeting with Bill Maher and Kid Rock
Both President Donald Trump and comedian Bill Maher had low expectations of their dinner meeting at the White House with musician Kid Rock, but the singer and Trump supporter said it could not have gone better.
Kid Rock, who supports Trump, pushed for the meeting with Maher, who has been vocally critical of "anything Trump."
"I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting," Trump said on Sunday before the meeting on Truth Social.
"It might be fun or, it might not, but you will be the first to know!” he added.
"Proven wrong?"
Trump said he thinks no matter how well the dinner goes, Maher will "publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am," but acknowledged, "Who knows, though, maybe I’ll be proven wrong?"
For his part, Maher told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo, “Look, it probably will accomplish very little, but you got to try, man, you got to try.”
Trump and Maher have a good bit of animosity between them, including a $5 million lawsuit by Trump against Maher for an insulting joke about his mother. The suit was later dropped and no money changed hands.
But after the meeting took place on Monday, Kid Rock said on Fox & Friends, “It could not have been better.”
"A little more civility"
His idea in bringing the two adversaries together was to model "a little more civility in this country.”
UFC President Dana White, a personal friend of Trump, also attended the dinner.
“We talked about things we had in common: ending wokeness, securing the border. The president was asking him what he thought about policy, going on with Iran and Israel and things. It blew my mind,” Kid Rock said.
The singer described Trump as "so gracious" during the meet and said he showed his guests the private residence, the Gettysburg Address, and the Lincoln Bedroom.
Maher has not commented on the dinner yet, but would look a little hypocritical now if he said negative things about it.
“Nothing happens if people don’t break bread together and meet face-to-face,” Kid Rock said.