Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher compared his upcoming dinner with long-standing foe President Trump to then-President Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, though Maher said he's heading to the White House with lower expectations.

"I don't have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America; I can't,” Maher told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Friday's episode of "The Chris Cuomo Project" podcast. "OK, let's get that clear. I'm not going to be healing America.

"If two guys who've been at each other for so long. … I mean, it's kind of a Nixon to China thing."

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