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Barack Obama talks partisanship, presidential election on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’

Barack Obama finally conceded.

After years of denying requests to appear on Bill Maher’s show, POTUS appeared on Friday night’s “Real Time” in a taped 40-minute interview from the Roosevelt Room.

An atypically serious Maher ran through hot-button topics including healthcare, marijuana reform and atheism in America before moving on to the current election.

“Look, if I watched Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me either,” Obama joked in a conversation about partisanship.

“This whole conversation that’s been had lately in the aftermath of the rise of Trump, it’s this notion that part of what’s happened is that both Republican and Democratic elites have neglected the white working class.

“Every policy I’ve put forward would make a huge different class with the white working class and the black working class and the Latino working class, whether it’s raising the minimum wage or the Affordable Care Act or making sure that unions are strong so that you can have a little more leverage at the workplace.”

As for a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Tuesday, Obama said it “should be really clear,” citing the work done on climate change, Wall Street and immigration reform.


“Every single issue we’ve made progress on in the last eight years is going to be on the ballot in the form of this choice,” he said.

“Anybody who’s sitting on the sidelines right now, or deciding to engage in a protest vote, that’s a vote for Trump. And that would be badly damaging for this country and badly damaging for the world.”