If it hasn’t been tested then you may need to read about the first lesson from Timothy snyder’s “ On Tyranny “:
Do not obey in advance.

Mr Maher knows that a symphony also contains moments of silence annotated as a “rest”. When we hold back on noise we can clearly hear the important notes.
It doesn’t matter to the presidency that trump is a different person than what his policies make us expect of him. Trumps message remains clear.