"Elvis had his Memphis Mafia. Michael Jackson had a doctor who never said, 'Gee, Mike, your nose just fell off again. Maybe cut back on the plastic surgery.'" And President Donald Trump has minions like Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus, who make a living telling everyone the insane bullshit that spews from Trump's mouth is actually a fountain of truth.

"He's just telling it like it is," they say. "He's a straight shooter." But Bill Maher called out Trump's enablers on Real Time Friday night, comparing Trump's minions to the character of Max from Sunset Boulevard, the loyal servant who enables and encourages Norma Desmond's delusions that she is still famous and adored when, in reality, she is a washed up has-been.

Maher noted that Sunset Boulevard is a particularly apt comparison because it is about an "aging, unstable drama queen who is able to maintain a fantasy world because... Norma Desmond is pure around-the-bend, batshit nuts... she has Max there, and he keeps the real world far out of sight."

Just look at the similarities:

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And, like Norma's Max, Trump's enablers—his daughter, his son-in-law, his vice president, his staff—they are all feeding Trump's delusions that he is the greatest thing to ever happen to America and the most amazing, intelligent person to enter the Oval Office.

"I'm sure last week when Trump's healthcare bill went down in flames," Maher continued, "he was surrounded by enablers who all nodded when he said, 'I'm still big league. It's the Congress got small.'" The line, of course, echoes Sunset's Norma, who famously said, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

Sure, Trump. Whatever you say.

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