Bill Maher Defends Praising Trump After Dinner Meeting: It’s Not a ‘Bad Thing’
On the Sunday, April 20, episode of his Club Random podcast, Bill Maher discussed his recent dinner meeting with Donald Trump and doubled down on the shockingly positive comments he made about the president.
While speaking with guest Charlie Kirk, Maher explained, “I voted for [Barack] Obama, I voted for [Hillary Clinton, but the idea that I could talk to them as freely as I felt this conversation was going is emblematic, to me, of why Democrats lose elections.”
He also referred to Trump as more of a “real person” than Democratic leaders he’s met in the past. “I know it’s so weird to say that about Donald Trump, who I’ve said a jillion times is, you know, a whiny little b**ch,” Maher admitted. “But this was about getting past that and maybe seeing that if we met in person, we don’t hate each other as much. And we don’t.”
The comedian also didn’t view this as a negative, adding, “I’m sorry, I’m not going to pretend that’s a bad thing.”
In March, Maher and Trump met for dinner after their mutual friend, Kid Rock, organized the sit down. On the April 11 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the talk show host opened up about the dinner and explained why he was so surprised by his time spent with Trump behind closed doors.
“Just for starters, he laughs,” Maher pointed out. “I’ve never seen him laugh in public, but he does, including at himself. And it’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.”
Maher said that Trump was more “self-aware” than he comes off in public, referencing a conversation where the president admitting he “lost” the 2020 election.
“Look, I get it. It doesn’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage,” Maher continued. “I’m just taking it as a positive that this person exists, because everything I’ve ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on this night with this guy.”
What shocked viewers the most, though, was when Maher concluded his story by admitting that Trump was “gracious and measured,” although he said he wasn’t sure why he doesn’t act like that in other settings.
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He was right the first time, describing trump as "a whiny little b**ch."
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The populists and the technocrats both used each other to get Trump elected. But their philosophies on America don’t align in the slightest. The populists want to bring back jobs and manufacturing. The technocrats want complete automation and autonomy from Democracy. They both want deregulation but for different reasons. And here is the biggest issue. At the end of the day, big money won. We all saw who was standing behind Trump during inauguration. Silicon Valley is the board of directors and Trump is their CEO, and Vance is Peter Thiel’s shill. They don’t care at all about preserving your jobs, they care only about the bottom line, and you gave them access to all infrastructures of the government. They have penetrated the treasury, the security, even the Constitution. In the end, your little LARP gun collection isn’t going to do anything against government sponsored drones who will seek and destroy without discrimination. In the end, there is only compliance. You have given away your freedoms my fellow Americans, and you don’t even know it, because you, like our good friend Bill Maher, fell for the con. Stupid silly humans.
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You seem to forget that Trump brought about the conditions in Afghanistan that led to the chaotic withdrawal. And how many Americans died of COVID because Trump downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic for months and mocked mask wearing? Also, Trump just told 10,000 active military personnel that they're no longer welcome in the service because they happen to be trans, including a number of highly decorated combat veterans. He doesn't give a rat's ass about our men and women in uniform--it's all just a photo op for him.
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Keep your wits about you whenever you enter the personal domain of an ultimate salesman. He knows exactly what it will take to romance you, as he did with Maher.
Hasn't anyone seen Schindler's List? Remember the conversation overlooking the prison camp, while Commandant Amon Goeth was shooting people at random and it made him all giggly?
And do you remember how Schindler, instead of working against this ogre's ego, he found a way to convince Amon that showing mercy would make him the hero he dreamed of being.
So Amon stopped for a moment. But we all know that didn't change his real life behavior at all.
The 'lovely, manly gentleman' schtick is just another front, another con, expertly tailored to what will lasso Maher in and bewitch him.
IYKYK
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Bill Maher is toast
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Another Fox zombie who randomly capitalizes words that shouldn't be capitalized. And I love that Fox is still talking about Biden--what, did they finally tire of dragging Obama's name through the mud?
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I think the fact that Trump is capable of being nice in person makes it all the more shameful that he's a hateful whiner in public. And Maher needs to just stop talking about it because he sounds like an idiot telling us that it was important for him to see a positive side to the guy.
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Actually, those people lost their jobs because they refused to get vaccinated--that was on them.
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One of the all-time greatest con-men pulled one over on Maher.
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No con was greater than "if you get the vaccine, you don't get covid." 4 shots, I got it twice.
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I got multiple vaccines, and I never got covid. Guess we cancel each other out. 😆
And I wonder how many millions can truthfully say your statement vs how many can truthfully echo mine?
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As long as they are whilte, male, or at least female who worships the ground he walks on like Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt, Margerie Taylor Greene, etc.
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How is it a positive, Bill? How does seeing his nice side change anything that's happening in this country right now? And how stupid are you for thinking that your little revelation would go over well with the rest of us?
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See if you actually open up and actually talk to someone instead of just being filled with hate, you may actually see the real person. For those that think this was a con job - you refuse to even try. And that is a horrible way to live. You gave Obama a chance, you gave Biden a chance but absolutely refuse to give Trump a chance.
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I wonder how many 'average Americans' Trump would sit down with face to face-- not many, I bet. If there's not a chance for cameras, photo-op, or TV cameras, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be interested.
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If you watch a guy lie every time he opens his mouth, you'd be a fool to believe his good-guy behavior. And he knows that you will, which is why he plays you oh so well.
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What are you talking about? Give Trump a chance how? He's the one who refuses to let up with his constant assault on the values of half the people in this country. He can't let a day go by without calling someone a loser because they disagree with him. He encourages his followers to hate the other side, so please, just stop with the "Can't we all just get along" nonsense. We're way past that. And Maher is smart enough to know that a pleasant dinner with the guy means absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.
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