Chris Wallace Surprised When Bill Maher Says Trump Will ‘Probably Be President Again’

CNN anchor Chris Wallace was taken aback when comedian and TV host Bill Maher told him former President Donald Trump will “probably be president again.”

Wallace interviewed Maher for this week’s edition of his Max series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on a variety of topics, including politics. his affinity for marijuana, and his new book.

In one preview clip obtained by Mediaite, Wallace was surprised when Maher casually predicted a Trump victory over President Joe Biden :

WALLACE: Starting in 2018. You started predicting with some regularity, that if Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020 that he wouldn’t leave.

MAHER: I said it before he was elected the first time. I kept saying slow moving coup – it’s happening and it’s going to happen and it’s and we see it, I mean, the stages of it. We just keep going down this road and I noticed that the right wing now has sort of talked themselves into this idea that he’s just this buffoonish comedian and he says crazy things. You know, he always has said things. He, it’s like he’s not serious, so they don’t take it seriously. And that’s the problem we have is that this is very serious, and he’s running a much more serious campaign this time.

WALLACE: So what do you think happens if he loses this time?

MAHER: Well on January 20, 2025, he’s gonna show up on inauguration day whether he wins or loses because he will claim that he won. That is the one thing I can absolutely predict with utter certainty. He will never, as I kept saying all those years, he will never concede an election. He’s certainly not going to concede this one.

WALLACE: So you also have a podcast called Club Random and on it recently, you told Jerry Seinfeld that if he wins, not loses but wins, you’re not going to go nuts again. So is it that you think Trump 2.0 wouldn’t be as bad or you just don’t care as much?

MAHER: Oh, I care I just what I’m not going to do is just lose my nervous system at every step of the way. I think he just thinks of power. He just wants to get that back. He, this is the guy who’s going to be probably President again.

WALLACE: You think so?

MAHER: I think it probably odds on yes. I mean, he’s certainly winning now. And Biden does not look like a very good candidate.

WALLACE: So January 20, or or maybe Election Day, I mean, that’s when you lose your mind?

MAHER: We could lose a lot more than my mind.

Watch above via Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace .