--- title: Watch Bill Maher on Jimmy Kimmel on Trump Cabinet VIDEO description: The comedian and HBO show host appeared on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' to lambast the president-elect's cabinet choices and unpredictability. canonical: https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-19T17:21:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:17.323Z og:title: Watch Bill Maher Get Real About Trump's Cabinet Picks og:description: The comedian joked that the cabinet is "from Opposite World" og:url: https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bill Maher Get Real About Trump's Cabinet Picks twitter:description: The comedian joked that the cabinet is "from Opposite World" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Bill Maher on Trump's Cabinet: 'Everybody's in Charge of a Department They Want to Get Rid Of'  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 19, 2017 5:21 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 19, 2017 5:21 PM UTC On Wednesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel_ _Live!_, [comedian and commentator Bill Maher](http://time.com/4498243/bill-maher-donald-trump-campaign-evil/?iid=sr-link1) didn’t hold back about his feelings on the President-elect—and the cabinet that surrounds him. “I’m getting Donald Trump for my birthday,” he deadpanned; his birthday falls on the inauguration this Friday. “I keep saying, ‘God, why?’ and then I go, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. For the last 25 years I’ve been making fun of you on TV.'” As a talk show host himself, Maher had some pointed advice for his fellow TV hosts too, if and when they get the new president in the guest’s chair. “I know he’s actually a game show host from Queens. But now he’s the president of the United States. If you’re gonna have him on, hold his feet to the fire… Don’t let him use you,” Maher insisted, sincerely. “What kind of guy is he? That’s the point, we don’t know. He’s completely unpredictable.” Maher also said no one was able to predict how Trump’s new cabinet will act, calling it a “cabinet from Opposite World.” “Everybody’s in charge of a department they want to get rid of. The head of the EPA [doesn’t believe in global warming](http://time.com/4635162/scott-pruitt-science-denial/?iid=sr-link1). ‘Trump wants to get rid of the EPA and replace the environment with something terrific,'” he joked. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Maher on Trump's Cabinet: 'Everybody's in Charge of a Department They Want to Get Rid Of'","datePublished":"2017-01-19T17:21:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:17.323Z","description":"\"this cabinet from Opposite World\"","url":"https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4639284/bill-maher-kimmel-trump/","name":"Watch Bill Maher on Trump's Cabinet: 'Everybody's in Charge of a Department They Want to Get Rid Of'"}}]}] ```