Bill Maher closed Friday's edition of Real Time by pleading with President Trump to take $1 million in cash and resign from office. Maher initially proposed making a bet with the President: "I will bet you a million dollars right now that if you lose the 2020 election, I'm right and you won't leave." Maher changed his mind about offering Trump a bet because he found it unlikely that "he'd ever pony up even if he lost a bet." At this point, Maher rolled out a revised proposal: "Just take my check for $1 million...I bet I could get another thousand people just from here to the beach, including Malibu...who would pay that much to see you resign." As he plead with the President to leave office, Maher declared: "it's really very simple. You love money, we hate you. Take the money...You could finally be the billionaire you always pretended you were." While Maher only committed to giving President Trump $1 million, he predicted that he could raise $1 billion from anti-Trump celebrates such as Oprah, Madonna, Cher, and Beyoncé. Maher made sure to remind the President that "singers, actors, athletes; everyone f***ing hates you." Maher also predicted that "millions and millions of not so rich and famous people who despise you too" would "happily chip in five, ten, twenty bucks, or pawn their wedding rings" just to donate to the effort to oust President Trump. Maher concluded his closing monologue by announcing "the formation of my national crowdfunding platform to bribe President Trump to leave," giving it the name "Prickstarter."
