Comedian Bill Maher said Sunday he’d rather be insulted than ignored by President Donald Trump. (Watch the video below.)

“You know, the last 4 or 5 times he’s been public about me, it’s all back to yelling and screaming,” Maher told CNN on the red carpet. “I’m this, I’m terrible, I’m a lunatic liberal, I’m a lunatic, I’m a lightweight, I’m a jerk. So we’re back to that. It’s OK. I would rather be still talking than the politics of ‘You don’t even exist; you’re too deplorable even to acknowledge.’ ”

Maher continued, “I’d rather be fighting and yelling. And that’s just his way of talking to people. You know, you just gotta have to accept it. I’d rather the channels be open, and anything is better than channels just being shut off.”

Maher recently may have re-ingratiated himself with Trump by saying his political support was up for grabs after victories by multiple progressive candidates in the New York primary.

“If this is where the Democratic Party is going, with the democratic socialists. This obsession with Israel, the Jew hating, with, they don’t believe in capitalism, no prisons. If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” Maher said.