Kid Rock says a White House dinner between Trump and Bill Maher was a huge success. He called it a step toward “a little more civility in this country.”
“It could not have been better,” Kid Rock told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
He organized the dinner. Trump, Maher, and UFC CEO Dana White all sat down together.
Maher’s been a longtime Trump critic. He’s called him “everything wrong with a human being stuffed into one man” and said he feared Trump “on a very personal level.”
Trump hasn’t held back either. He’s called Maher “Crazy Bill” and said his show was “boring.” Claimed Maher had “Trump derangement syndrome.”
But on Monday night, the tone shifted. “Everyone was so surprised, so pleasant,” Kid Rock said.
“We talked about things we had in common: ending wokeness, securing the border,” he added. “The president was asking him what he thought about policy, going on with Iran and Israel and things. It blew my mind.”
“Nothing happens if people don’t break bread together and meet face-to-face,” Kid Rock said.
Despite Maher being “one of the president’s hardest critics,” the dinner “could not have been better,” he said. Maher’s rep hasn’t commented yet.
Before the dinner, Maher compared it to Nixon’s 1972 trip to China. “I don’t have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America; I can’t,” he told Chris Cuomo last week.
Trump posted before the meal that he “didn’t like the idea much” but figured it “might be fun.”
Kid Rock said Trump was “so gracious” during the visit. He showed them the private residence, the Lincoln Bedroom, and the Gettysburg Address.
“Everybody’s mind was kind of blown, even the president’s, I think,” Kid Rock said. “The president called me late night last night.”
“Even the president kind of alerted to me a little bit like, ‘What do you got me doing?’” Kid Rock recalled. “I go, ‘Man, we’re just trying to show people that even though we’ve been pretty hard on each other, that when you get face-to-face, maybe we can have a little more civility in this country and try to bring people together.’”
“That was my whole intention,” he said.