Bill Maher Makes Bold Confession About Donald Trump’s Best Political Move
What To Know
- Although Bill Maher often criticizes Donald Trump, he revealed the POTUS’ best political move.
- Maher criticized people whose entire identity revolves around hating Trump.
- He expressed greater concern about the undemocratic tendencies of the extreme right compared to the extreme left.
Bill Maher made a bold confession about Donald Trump‘s best political move while also sending a blunt message to those whose “entire personality” is hating the POTUS.
During an interview with The Free Press published on YouTube on December 22, the Real Time With Bill Maher host, 69, discussed Trump’s achievements and missteps during a conversation with interviewer Maya Sulkin.
The journalist asked how Maher thinks the U.S. political scene arrived at a juncture where “conspiracy theories thrive online, where Trump is president, where the world is so politically divided.” She wondered if people were “freaking out over nothing,” or if it was truly a “moment in time that people should be concerned about.”
To that, Maher replied, “Some of both,” before pointing out a plaque of Trump’s 56 insults about Maher that the POTUS signed. “I earned every one of those. So I think I have a lot of credentials, as understanding the situation we’re in, unprecedented-wise, with him as president.”
He continued, “On the other hand, I just really have no use for people whose whole personality is Donald Trump and how much they hate Trump… It’s like, ‘Oh, shut the f*** up.’ You know what, first of all, it’s all people whose lives he hasn’t really affected at all. He has affected a lot of lives, some of them very badly.”
That’s when Maher admitted that Trump, 79, has had “some ideas that were not wrong.” He clarified, “I rarely back the method he chooses to carry them out. But identifying certain problems that were festering. Yeah, he’s done some of that.”
When asked what the best thing Trump has done, Maher replied, “The best thing he’s done was the Middle East deal — bombing Iran, backing Israel, and not pretending like, ‘Oh, well, everybody in the Middle East, they have equal arguments.'”
However, Maher also admitted that he has more concern over the extreme right than the extreme left when it comes to politics.
“They’re undemocratic. I don’t know that they’re at all committed to giving up power,” the late-night host explained. “The right thinks the left has gone so insane. And I could tell you why they’re not completely wrong about that. I could list 12 easily that are so anti-common sense — so counterintuitive, it seems like they just want to embrace the counterintuitive — that makes the right-wing say, ‘Even if we have to forgo democracy, these people cannot take power.’ That’s a very scary place to be, when they’re like, ‘Democracy? No, not the most important thing.'”
Real Time with Bill Maher, Season 24, Premieres, Friday, January 23, 2026, HBO
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How many times does the word democracy appear in the USA constitution?
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ZERO... LET THAT SINK IN...
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Zero, our country was established as a Democratic Republic, not a Democracy
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I don't agree with the immigration raids going on at the moment! Trump is a racist and is really going overboard! If someone is here illegally and that is the only crime they committed they should be given a chance to obtain citizenship without fear of getting deported for showing at an immigration hearing! These people only want to make a better life for their families and most of them go to work do not bother anyone they go home and stay there and contribute to our economy by shopping and eating in our restaurants they do jobs most other people are too lazy to do there is no reason for these people to live in fear on a day to day basis! The ones who have committed crimes these people are the ones that need to go! Please do something to stop this madness and help our immigrants by finding a way the people that are already here can find a way to become citizens of this beautiful country they help make America a great place to life after all we are ALL immigrants. Trump hatea anyone who is not rich and white and he despises gay people!
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I wonder what Mrs Trump thinks about immigration? Wish common sense and compassion would prevail over hatred and racism, with Billionaire greed and dictatorship thrown in.
Trump hates gay people, yet loves YMCA from The Village People?
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I don't agree with the immigration raids going on at the moment! Trump is a racist and is really going overboard! If someone is here illegally and that is the only crime they committed they should be given a chance to obtain citizenship without fear of getting deported for showing at an immigration hearing! These people only want to make a better life for their families and most of them go to work do not bother anyone they go home and stay there and contribute to our economy by shopping and eating in our restaurants they do jobs most other people are too lazy to do there is no reason for these people to live in fear on a day to day basis! The ones who have committed crimes these people are the ones that need to go! Please do something to stop this madness and help our immigrants by finding a way the people that are already here can find a way to become citizens of this beautiful country they help make America a great place to life after all we are ALL immigrants. Trump hates anyone who is not rich and white and he despises gay people! My wish is that everyone who reads this will call or write your Representative and tell them that the way our immigrants is just plain cruel! This madness has to stop most of these people are decent law abiding people and they deserve to be treated with respect and be given a chance to obtain citizenship, If I were president I would sign an executive order allowing them to join our military and when they serve their allotted time I would mak
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So you’re ok with millions of immigrants on our welfare rolls? Sucking on our system, illegally in our country, illegally in our schools all on our dime ?
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