Trump does friend Kid Rock a favor by agreeing to meet with MAGA-hater Bill Maher

President Trump said he is doing a “favor” for his friend Kid Rock by meeting with comedian Bill Maher in the White House.

“I got a call from a very good guy, and friend of mine, Kid Rock, asking me whether or not it would be possible for me to meet, in the White House, with Bill Maher, a man who has been unjustifiably critical of anything, or anyone, TRUMP,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting.”

Mr. Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” has been a frequent critic of Mr. Trump since he first burst onto the political scene with his 2016 presidential campaign.

Kid Rock is a longtime friend and supporter of Mr. Trump. He was a guest on Mr. Maher’s show last month.

“The problem is, no matter how much he likes your Favorite President, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc., very much like the Democrats at my recent Address to the Joint Session of Congress, where I stated, correctly, that no matter what I said or did, they wouldn’t stand, they wouldn’t applaud, they wouldn’t smile or laugh and, certainly, they wouldn’t be in any way ’nice,’” Mr. Trump wrote.

“Who knows, though, maybe I’ll be proven wrong? In any event, I’m doing a favor for a friend. I look forward to meeting with Bill Maher, Kid Rock and, I believe even the Legendary Dana White will be present,” he said. “It might be fun, or it might not, but you will be the first to know!”

Mr. Maher said on Chris Cuomo’s podcast that if he meets with Mr. Trump, it is “not going to be healing America.”

“But if two guys who’ve been at each other for so long, I mean – it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing,” Mr. Maher said.

“I have the credential. There was nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about the fact that he wasn’t going to leave office voluntarily than I was,” he said. “I feel like I have the credentials, but they also respect me because I’m honest about the woke train to crazy town and I don’t shrink from that.”

Talking to fellow comedian Andrew Schulz on “Club Random,” Mr. Maher said he wasn’t worried about criticism from the left for meeting with Mr. Trump.

“There will be lots of people on the left who will be like, ’How dare you talk to this man.’ It’s like ’f—- you, I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play,’” Mr. Maher said. “’Oh, you know what? You can’t sit at my lunch table, because I’m just not talking to you.’ Not talking to you? You lost the election. Who the f—- do you think you have to talk to?”