Overview
- Maher, whose Real Time monologue aired Friday, cast the Trump–Xi meeting as a lovefest and said China played to Trump’s taste for parades and red‑carpet ceremony.
- He mocked Fox News host Sean Hannity for lobbing softball questions in a friendly interview tied to the trip.
- He took aim at the tech entourage, joking about Elon Musk showing deference in Beijing and ribbing Apple CEO Tim Cook.
- He called the lack of any step on artificial intelligence his biggest disappointment from the summit.
- The White House highlighted talks on market access and Chinese investment, while multiple reports said there were no concrete moves on Iran, Taiwan, or trade and that Taiwan was barely mentioned publicly.