Speaking during Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host dedicated a segment to discuss the recent murder of a Kandahar policeman and social media comedian Nazar Mohammad Khasha.

“The Taliban murdered a comedian… he made up funny songs on TikTok. They forced him into a car, tortured and then executed him. A comedian. Nothing like that hits a little close to home for me,” Maher said Friday.

“I’ve had two presidents up my ass,” Maher continued, referring to former Presidents George W. Bush, who criticized remarks Maher made after 9/11, and Donald Trump, who sued Maher for making a joke about being an orangutan.

“I mean, neither experience was pleasant, but I didn’t have to worry about being dragged till I’m dead behind a Toyota Tacoma. Have a little perspective about the stuff we howl about here,” Maher added.

Maher went on to slam “liberals” who “under-romanticize” the U.S., and don’t appreciate the freedoms that the country offers.

“If you think America is irredeemable, turn on the news…there’s a reason Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us,” he added, while showing an image of an Afghan woman handing her child over to a U.S. solider following the recent Taliban takeover. “We’re not the bad guys.”

Maher’s comments come a month after Khasha was kidnapped from his Kandahar home and later killed by the Taliban. The reasons for his death were unclear, but the killing sparked outrage across Afghanistan and served as a grim reminder of the Taliban’s intolerance for art and humor.

It was “a slap on the face of all Afghan people and an insult to humanity and human dignity,” Afghan Second Vice President Sarwar Danesh said in a Facebook post in July, in a violation of “justice, knowledge and art.”

Earlier this month, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan following the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. The past two weeks have been met with chaos as hundreds of thousands of Afghans are rushing to leave the country over fear that the militant group will execute public killings and enact harsh laws against women, music and other freedoms.

The U.S. has since been rushing to evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies from the country, but the threat of terrorist attacks have made efforts difficult. On Thursday, over 160 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were killed after an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bomber carried out an attack at the Kabul International airport.

The incident came after the U.S. Embassy in Kabul sent an alert urging citizens to avoid the airport due to potential security threats.

Less than 48 hours after the attack, U.S. military officials said they have killed one of the planners of the suicide bombing in a retaliatory unmanned airstrike. The operation occurred in the country’s Nangahar Province along the country’s east-central border, about 125 miles east of Kabul.

The airstrike followed Presiden Joe Biden pledging to “hunt down” and punish those who carried out the airport attack, as well as anyone who wishes the U.S. harm.