Comedian Bill Maher said on Sunday that Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE’s campaign has revealed how many “vulgar, tacky, racist” people there are in the U.S.

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“What we learned is there are a lot of vulgar, tacky, racist people in this country — more than I thought, I knew there were some,” he said in an interview on CNNs “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

Maher also referred to Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables,” a term that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot Poll: 51 percent of voters want to abolish the electoral college MORE used once to describe some of the Republican nominee's followers and then apologized for.

“I know they hate that term but if the basket fits — and it does,” he said.

Maher also addressed the possibility he might launch a political career, saying he does not see the point in running for office because his atheism would most likely be a “deal breaker” in a campaign.

“It’s interesting, I could run more reasonably than I could 10 years ago,” he said. “But my standard answer to that was always, ‘I think religion is bad and drugs are good,’ and that is not a slogan that will probably get you a lot of votes in America.”

The comedian predicted that if Trump loses in November, he will go on to be the “Che Guevara of deplorables.”

“I think he’s going to be a revolutionary out there,” he said.

Maher argued that the media has not done enough to confront Trump's lies and said it should stop treating him and Clinton as equivalent candidates.

“I think the media has been going downhill for a long time, with notable exceptions,” he said. ”But I think one of their big problems is they confuse fair and balanced with false equivalency.”

“I know he’s going to stammer and yell, and he does, I saw it at the last debate. He’s like a 5-year-old,” he added, citing Trump’s complaints to the moderators at the last debate, on Oct. 10.

As for Clinton, Maher admits that the Democratic nominee is guarded but argued there is good reason for her to be.

“I don’t think there has been anyone who has been more scrutinized, over-scrutinized. I always say she’s like a black driver in a white neighborhood and the police are the Republicans — they keep pulling her over and they keep having to let her go,” he said.