For once, Bill Maher said what millions of Americans have been thinking: the media’s obsession with Donald Trump has reached Olympic levels of absurdity. On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comedian and HBO host mocked the nonstop outrage from the press over the former president’s renovation of the White House — specifically, the construction of a new ballroom that required partial demolition of the East Wing.

Maher made it clear he wasn’t buying the so-called scandal. “The ballroom? I don’t give a s***,” he said flatly. “It’s just a building. They’ve done s*** to the White House before.” Finally, a moment of honesty from Hollywood — and it didn’t even come from the right.

Maher went on to call out the predictable media double standard: “It shows you how the media is. Everything is always on one side or the other. When [Trump] first mentioned it, it was all, ‘Oh my God, he’s desecrating the White House.’ Then I finally read, ‘Well, they’ve done s*** to the White House before.’” In other words: facts first, hysteria later — or never.

He even pointed out the practical reason for the renovation, explaining that the U.S. doesn’t have a proper space for state dinners. “They’re doing it in a tent! This is America!” Maher said. “So do I give a s*** that he’s doing this to the White House? I really don’t.” It’s refreshing to hear someone, anyone, admit that maybe — just maybe — improving the people’s house isn’t an act of tyranny.

Maher’s only complaint? That Trump didn’t have to crawl through the same bureaucratic nightmare that every other American faces. “As the guy who took three years to get my f***ing solar panels in, I’m kind of jealous,” he joked. “In LA, you need 13 permits to put a bird feeder on your deck.”

Meanwhile, Trump also announced that the Lincoln Bathroom had finally been renovated — for the first time since the 1940s. But sure, let’s pretend the real crisis is that a billionaire president made some upgrades to a 200-year-old mansion.

Leave it to Bill Maher — of all people — to say what so many are too afraid to: the media’s anti-Trump obsession has become a parody of itself. And honestly? He’s right. Who cares about a ballroom when the country has bigger problems to fix?