As much as he seemingly hated to admit it, filmmaker Michael Moore is pretty certain the next president of the United States of America is going to be Donald Trump. Moore broke the light mood of Wednesday's live episode of Real Time with Bill Maher to make what he knew was a downer of a point about the election they'd been cracking jokes about. "I'm sorry to have to be the buzzkill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win," Moore said, eliciting boos from the audience.
Moore explained that, to millions of Americans, particularly in middle America, jokes about Trump are simply "music to their ears." "We've been sitting in our bubble having a good laugh at this sh-tshow," Moore said, "but the truth is that this plays to a lot of people that he has to win to become the next president."
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