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BILL MAHER, HOST: I noticed that at the Super Bowl there for the first time in I think four years now the Trump administration is making them take away end racism which they had written in the end zone, right?

TARA PALMERI, GUEST: But why? It just seems silly.

MAHER: To do it or not to do it?

PALMERI: Why get rid of it?

MAHER: Oh I could tell you why.

PALMERI: I know but it's just like.

MAHER: Because it was stupid to begin with

PALMERI: Yeah, but --

Let me ask you who is it for? And if you're a racist and you see end racism in the end zone you're gonna stop being a racist?

[LAUGHTER]

PALMERI: But the sentiment is basically don't be an asshole.

MAHER: But I think it's an asshole to nag us during a football game about something that doesn't change anything or anything. If I'm not a racist and I see it it doesn't matter and if I am a racist it's gonna make me more of a racist.

REP. BYRON DONALDS (R-FL), GUEST: I think if you write "Don't Be An A**hole" in the end zone everybody will agree with that.

[APPLAUSE]

MAHER: The problem is we all think the other guy's an a**hole.

PALMERI: No one thinks they're a racist.

MAHER: Well there are some people who proudly think they're racist. The guy, the Trump kid. Did you see that tweet this week?

PALMERI: Oh yeah he said I'm proudly a racist. Something like that.

MAHER: I was racist before it was cool. This is one of the the incels. One of the geek squad incels that Musk has going through. And then Musk tweeted out "Should he stay in his job?" And 78% said yes he should.

Now again I don't think all 78% are racist. I think some of that some of them are and some of them are just like this is a revolt against cancel culture. This is my point. There's never just a reaction. It's always an overreaction. You went too far with cancel culture bullshit and this is what you get.

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