Liberal comedian Bill Maher defended President Donald Trump this week after he mocked a reporter who asked about visiting the site of a plane crash that occurred in the water.

Maher made his comments on his HBO show Real Time, responding to the exchange between Trump and the reporter in the Oval Office following the tragic plane and helicopter crash.

Here’s how the exchange went:

REPORTER: Have you spoken to any of the families of the victims of the plane crash?

TRUMP: I don’t want to comment on that.

REPORTER: Do you have a plan to go visit the site?

TRUMP: I have a plan to visit, not the site, because you tell me — what’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?

Maher said that Trump’s response to the “stupid question” was “exactly right.”

“They asked him a question about the crash and they said, ‘Will you visit the crash site?’” Maher said. “Now, every other politician would go, ‘Of course, it was a tragedy.’”

“And he went, ‘It’s the water. What do you want me to do, swim there?’” Maher continued. “Yeah. And I was like, exactly! F*** right! You’re exactly right. It’s a stupid question.”

“And you got just the answer you deserve,” he added. “And that is why they like him.”

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Bill Maher scorches the reporter who asked President Trump a “stupid” question about whether he was going to visit the crash site of the American Eagle DCA plane crash.

Maher: “Yeah, I get it. You know? I mean, they asked him a question today…about the crash and they said, will… pic.twitter.com/CFK6BPilKH

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