US President Joe Biden was subject to a brutal roasting from HBO host Bill Maher despite the broadcaster also having some kind words for the Commander-in-Chief.
Maher couldn’t resist taking digs at Biden’s old age despite opening up his monologue by praising his conduct in Israel.
On Friday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time, he told the audience that Biden’s trip to Israel marked his “best week as president”.
“Joe Biden, our president, went to Israel this week - nothing to do with the war, he just wanted a break from the tension in [Washington] DC”, he joked.
Bill Maher has brutally mocked Joe Biden's age
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“But I think this was his best week as president, Joe Biden. This was his finest hour.
“And then he gets his a***e on a plane, it can’t be easy. He’s not a young man - he remembers when the Dead Sea was alive”, Maher remarked at the 80-year-old’s expense.
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Maher has been a vocal supporter of Israel since terror group Hamas launched its deadly October 7 surprise attack.
He has taken aim at pro-Palestine demonstrations, questioning whether the country’s culture, which is at odds with many Western values, is something that people should be aligning themselves with.
Maher pointed to an open letter signed by 34 student groups at Harvard University, which said they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence” after the Hamas attack, claiming it was Israel’s treatment of Palestinians that prompted the massacre.
The deadly surprise attack, launched by Hamas on October 7, has seen more than 1,400 people in Israel killed, most of whom civilians murdered in the initial attack by Hamas militants who stormed a music festival close to the Gaza border.
Joe Biden speaking with Benjamin Netanyahu in IsraelGB NewsIn addition, the Israeli military said 203 people including children were captured by Hamas during the offensive.
Hamas on Friday freed two American hostages who had been held hostage in Gaza since the beginning of the war.
Natalie Shoshana Raana, 17, and her mother Judith Tai Raanan, 59, arrived back in Israel on Friday, the Israeli government confirmed.
They left Gaza without visible physical injuries, getting out of a car before swiftly getting into a Red Cross vehicle for treatment.
The governor of Illinois said the pair are now receiving medical treatment after the deal to free the pair was carried out by Qatar.
Israel have continued to carry out its siege of Gaza in response to the attack while taking additional measures such as cutting off water supply.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said that at least 4,132 people have been killed in Gaza and 84 in the occupied West Bank over the past two weeks.
Provisions have been taken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt, with a two-truck UN convoy carrying over 44,000 bottles of drinking water from the UN children’s agency.
