Bill Maher said there was “so much bad news” to cover during his weekly monologue in the Real Time With Bill Maher episode airing on Friday (January 31). He started with the collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter — and President Donald Trump’s controversial reaction to the tragedy. “Trump immediately came out and said, ‘We don’t know what caused the crash.’ And then 10 seconds later, blamed Dei,” Maher said at the start of his monologue. “And then the Democrats blamed Elon Musk for getting rid of the head of the Faa 10 days earlier. And then Bobby Kennedy said they all died from the vaccine.” Then Maher referenced Trump’s baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets: “Trump’s view is, well, the air traffic controller was distracted because he was a Haitian eating a cat at the time.