Maher let loose on a Larry King in an interview set to air Tuesday afternoon . Maher: Trump's 'racist,' Clint is an…

Bill Maher has previously called businessman Donald Trump a racist for some of his criticism of President Barack Obama, and he was pressed on that claim by Larry King in an interview set to air Tuesday afternoon on Hulu.com.

“It depends on how you term racist. It’s funny how racism has evolved in America. One hundred fifty years ago, a racist was a guy who said, ‘Yes, I am going to be keeping my slaves.’ One hundred years ago, racism was Jim Crow, somebody who believes that blacks perhaps should not be allowed to vote but they’re not for going all the way back to slavery. To me, where racism is today, it’s denying that racism exists. That, to me, is very racist. If you ask people on Planet Tea Bag what the problem is racially in America, it’s probably reverse racism, Larry. That’s where the problem is, white people who cannot get a break because of all these affirmative action laws. They really believe that. So is Donald Trump a racist? Not an overt one. As he has said many times, ‘The black people love me.’ ‘The blacks love me.’ And, by the way, they love being called ‘the blacks,’ also. So he’s one of those racists who doesn’t know he’s a racist, but yes, he is.”


King also used the sit-down to get Maher’s thoughts on other current events, including actor Clint Eastwood’s recent speech at the Republican National Convention.

“I liked his performance as a comedian. What I admired was a man who could get on stage with no teleprompter and just a chair as a prop and get big laughs for fifteen minutes, sort of off the cuff. That is not easy. I mean I’ve been a standup comedian for 30 years, I know what it’s like and I know what it’s like to bomb from my earlier days. For him to do it as a non-comedian in that setting with those limitations, I was very impressed. Now, the content of what he said shocked me because I did not know that Clint Eastwood was such a down the line, right-wing a—hole. I knew he was sort of conservative, you know. But I had no idea that he was such a typical teabagger, doesn’t know the facts, had everything all wrong, just this old white guy who feels the claw being plied off the lever of power.”