Bill Maher Predicts Trump Will Lose, Says Taylor Swift ‘Saved Democracy’
Bill Maher made Friday’s episode of Real Time “a very momentous night” with a prediction. He believes Donald Trump will lose the 2024 U.S. presidential race.
Maher told viewers he has been called a “Trump alarmist” but pointed out that he correctly predicted that the former Apprentice star would survive the Access Hollywood tape scandal and that he wouldn’t gracefully concede in the 2020 election.
“Every time he’s done crazy s**t and gotten himself in trouble, I said, ‘No, no, it’s not over,’” Maher said, as seen in an X clip. “Tonight I’m saying, I think it’s over.”
Maher compared Trump to Joseph McCarthy, the Republican U.S. senator who made spurious accusations of communism in the 1950s. “He had a hold on America, and it blew out in about two years, right? Two, three years,” Maher said. “He was the biggest thing, and then it was just [over].”
Bill Maher on Trump: “I’m going to make this a very momentous night with a prediction… I think it’s over… He’s going to lose.” pic.twitter.com/lR5re1lXws
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) September 14, 2024
And then Maher cited one of Trump’s false statements at the latest presidential debate, in which Trump repeated a baseless claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are “eating the dogs.”
“I feel like ‘eating the dogs,’ we’re at this point,” Maher said. “I feel like we’re at Captain Queeg with the strawberries [in The Caine Mutiny], we’re at Denzel at the end of Training Day … I just think he’s going to lose.”
Also in that September 13 episode, Maher mentioned Taylor Swift’s endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race in an Instagram post that drove about 406,000 people to click on a link to Vote.gov, a U.S. government-run voter registration website.
“Taylor Swift finally told people who to vote for,” Maher said on Friday’s show, per Deadline. “Of course, immediately the response from the other side was, ‘Celebrity endorsements don’t matter.’ People are always so behind on these things. That’s the conventional wisdom for a long time, many celebrity endorsements don’t work … Not in this case. I mean, just the number of people who were immediately registered from that tweet.”
Maher later quipped that the pop star “saved democracy” with her Instagram post.
Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays, 10/9c, HBO
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Using his precious time in front of 67 million people on television and 7 million on streaming to repeat a ridiculous easily debunked racist story about legal immigrants establishes that he is not "a serious person".
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He predicted Trump would win and Trump would not leave when he lost. I take this prediction seriously and I think he's right. The 'eating the dogs' rant gave me the biggest laugh of the debate and it made me feel the same way as Bill. It's over.
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I'm really surprised Maher is saying this. I mean he himself is reminding us he is the one that has always reminded us that he has always said it aint over till it's over. Here is the thing about proclaiming it's over. Don't give us false hope. Cause if you do, you are going to make us too confident to go to the polls. DO NOT DO THAT!!!! DO VOTE PEOPLE!!!! I'm in California. I am guaranteed my state will go blue and my ass is still gettig up out of my desk and going to the poles!!!!
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The only way Trump will lose is if someone offs him. Libs are sure trying. You don't try to kill somebody you think is going to lose. duh !
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How many "Swiftees" are voting age? Who takes council from these kids?
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Swiftees transcend demographics. They range from 5 to 55. Taylor is beloved by all ages, many of them voting age. If even a fraction of those that visited vote.gov voted, it could be significant.
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Then why is there a guy filming interviews in Ohio and the people are saying it's true. . a police body can footage was up now mysteriously taken down .He came up on a car that was reported and the lady was eating a cat .raw .
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Eating a cat raw? You just keep ratcheting up the crazy.
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I never laugh trump off because there are people outctive rights there tha was intelligentt are just as craztedy as he is.i think Joe did the right thing turning it over to harris.i think it will be enough to throw trump off his game.we don't nee that nut job up there another four years.i didn't think I'd survive the first four.i haven't spoken to since she told me she voted for him just because he was against women's reproductive rights i.e.abortion.and I always thought she was intelligent,my cousin that is.
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Turn it over? You all just witnessed a coup from the side that wants to save democracy! The ones always destroying it. Harris wasn't on the ticket during the primary. So all those people who wanted Biden you know the physically fit mentally strong Biden . Then the debate and he was exposed. So what Schumer Pelosie Obama all basically force him to step aside. Wow. Just witnessed a coup and not one word spoken of it in the news...well because it's all bought off now right 😉
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