Bill Maher Slams LA Mayor As 'The Nero Of American Politics' Over Wildfires Response

The "Real Time" host accused Karen Karen Bass of "fiddling in Ghana while the city burned."

Bill Maher has joined a burgeoning chorus of pundits in railing against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over an ill-timed trip to Ghana she took as her city became engulfed in ongoing wildfires.

The wildfires have devastated Southern California since last Tuesday: More than 40,000 acres have burned, with some 80,000 residents still under mandatory evacuation orders, at least 27 people dead and over 12,000 structures destroyed, per CalFire.

Bass reportedly left for Ghana on Jan. 4 to attend the inauguration of the new president on Jan. 7, and the Palisades Fire broke out later that day.

“I’m sure it’s very complicated,” Maher said on his show, “Real Time,” Friday. “That’s why I pay 13% of my income in this state every year to people who I assumed were working on things like this.”

He continued, “When asked why so many of the hydrants in the Palisades ran out of water, Governor Newsom said, ‘The local folks are trying to figure that out.’ Yeah you gotta do that before the fire.”