John Kerry criticised for telling TV host Bill Maher that Donald Trump has ‘insecurity of a teenage girl’
Some responded by citing examples of teenage girls who are not insecure, from Malala Yousufzai to anti-gun-violence activist Emma Gonzalez
Former US Secretary of State John Kerry is being criticised for comparing President Donald Trump to a teenage girl during an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Kerry visited the late-night talk show Friday to promote his new memoir, Every Day is Extra. Soon after Kerry sat down, however, host Bill Maher brought up a Trump tweet from the day before, in which the president had accused the former secretary of state of having “illegal meetings” with the Iranian government.
“BAD!” Trump wrote at the end of the tweet.
“What did you do, John F. Kerry, that was ‘BAD’?” Maher asked Kerry.
He really is the rare combination … he’s got the maturity of an eight-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl
“I think I told the truth,” Kerry replied. “He’s the first president that I know of who spends more time reading his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books or the Constitution of the United States.”
The crowd cheered. Kerry continued to lament what he thought was the deleterious effect of Trump’s lies on American democracy.
“Unfortunately, we have a president, literally, for whom ‘the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ is three different things. And you don’t even know what they are,” Kerry said. “I don’t want to get into a real riff on this, but I gotta tell you …”
“Do it!” someone in the audience shouted, egging him on.