Invoice Maher talked loads about how Easter Sunday is that this weekend, and unexpectedly, given his well-known affinity for hashish, he didn’t make any jokes about the way it occurs to be on 4/20 this yr. He did nevertheless make loads of Easter-related jokes about Donald Trump and his cronies, amongst them that Trump is celebrating “by locking up guys named Jesus.”
(Clearly pronounced within the Spanish model, a reference to Trump’s escalating battle on immigrants.)
“It’s good Friday, and that is the day Jesus died for all of our sins. So you recognize what? Have enjoyable. It’s all paid for. You’re enjoying with the home cash,” Maher stated initially of his monologue.
Noting this week was additionally tax day, Maher continued, “one of many issues that DOGE has completed, it’s sort of gutted the IRS. Oh, you recognize, you’re not. For those who don’t have it, don’t fear about it. Yeah. I imply, I’ll say this, plenty of the issues Trump does are actually pandering to the bottom, however letting tax cheats not have to fret about getting audited? That one got here from the center.”
Again to the subject of Easter, Maher stated, “I don’t wish to say the economic system goes into sh—er, however individuals are dying, dying — yeah, they’re dying too, however dying potatoes for Easter as a result of eggs are too costly. This appears like one thing my Irish relative did after they s— within the gap and slept within the mud.”
“So sure, we’re dying potatoes. Persons are dying abroad as a result of we minimize abroad support. They are saying… we’re going right into a recession, we now have a constitutional disaster. In the present day, Melania had a jacket that stated, I’m beginning to care,” Maher continued. “It’s Easter. It’s Easter on Sunday. Are you enthusiastic about that? Oh, my God, my favourite vacation on the Christian [calendar], the day once we rejoice Jesus being resurrected from the useless. Or, as Elon Musk sees it, an elaborate scheme to defraud Social Safety.”
“Very huge day on the White Home. Trump is honoring the day by locking up guys named Jesus,” Maher went on, additionally joking that Trump “pardoned Pontius Pilate.”
“JD Vance, our vp, He’s in Rome. You already know, he’s a convert, a current convert to Catholicism. I do know it’s married to a Hindu, goes proper to the Catholics. I don’t know what that claims, However I that he can run into as a result of he heard monks like little pricks,” Maher stated. “JD is over there. He desires to get in to see the Pope. It’s undecided he’s gone on to however he’d prefer to get in there to persuade him that Jesus was useless incorrect about being good to foreigners.”
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