Bill Maher: Donald Trump's Wall Emergency Is Part Of Slow-Moving Right-Wing Coup

Bill Maher began Fridays broadcast of Real Time with a blistering dissection of President Donald Trumps Rose Garden declaration of a national emergency to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

He did it, fucko did it today, said Maher, who described Trumps address as just completely crackers.

I know Ive said that before, but this was just one long, baseless, incoherent, stream of consciousness, call-the-nursing-home rant, he added.

Maher later repeated his theory, which he previously made in the days before the 2016 election, about how a slow-moving right-wing coup is taking over the country. This is democracy-hanging-by-a-thread kind of stuff, he added.

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