Maher would sit with Trump

BILL Maher (below) would rather sit next to President Trump at a dinner party than Pope Francis, “because I think I know what the pope thinks,” he says.

“But Donald Trump is still a bit of a mystery to me. I would love to sit next to him for an hour and try to get into whatever is going on under that blond wig.”

Maher, interviewed by Bob Guccione Jr. for WonderlustTravel.com, admits to being a homebody, although he does stand-up tours regularly between Los Angeles tapings of his HBO show “Real Time,” on which he is equal parts Trump hater and religion hater. The comedian also confesses he used to pilfer hotel toiletries, starting in 1982, when he opened for Diana Ross in Las Vegas. “I’d peek out the door, and when the maid left her cart in the hallway and wasn’t there to guard it, I would filch the soap and shampoos off the cart, and went home with a suitcase full of these. Those were tough economic times for me. Towels were harder to get into the suitcase.” The New York native surprisingly likes the Deep South: “I love playing Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, you name it, because they are more en- thusiastic than a liberal state, where it’s expected I would go.”

Maher said he almost moved to Atlanta. “I remember the girls were very friendly, more friendly than those on the East Coast . . . I played the hot club — and by ‘hot’ I mean the owners tried to pay you in cocaine.”

He doesn’t worry about the people who disagree with him: “If I offend people, it’s usually because I’m making a point, and a point they don’t like. And usually a point that is true, which is why they don’t like it, so they can just live with that.”