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

The “Real Time” host was asked about their dynamic before he was to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center ― which will stream on Netflix July 21.

“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.”

Mark Twain Prize recipient Bill Maher on Trump calling him a "lightweight": "That's just his way of talking to people. You know, you just kind of have to accept it." pic.twitter.com/SW3m3XJxhN

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.

But the comic has dumped on Trump and his allies often enough to have the president recently call him a “MORON.” In March, the White House called reports of Maher receiving the Mark Twain Prize “fake news.”

The comedian said the administration even tried to block him from being honored.

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