Bill Maher Calls Out ‘Real Time’ Audience for Laughing at Trump Assassination Attempt
What To Know
- Bill Maher slammed those who expressed disappointment that Trump wasn’t killed during White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
- He rebuked his own audience for laughing and argued against extreme comparisons of Trump to Hitler.
- Maher said that wishing harm on political opponents is not a solution to political tensions.
Real Time host has slammed those who were disappointed President Donald Trump wasn’t killed during an alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25.
Speaking on Friday’s (May 1) edition of his HBO late-night show, Maher said, “Let’s get the ugly news about the political violence out of the way first. If you’re one of these people, and there’s many in this country, who watched that and was disappointed the president wasn’t killed…”
Maher was interrupted when some members of the studio audience started laughing. “See, they’re laughing at that. You’re not a good person or a smart person, but definitely not a good person,” he continued.
The comedian went on to say, “Trump has often not been good, decent or kind, but he’s not Hitler!”
NEW: Bill Maher calls out his own audience after they laughed over the thought of President Trump being killed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Maher: “If you’re one of these people who watched that and was disappointed the president wasn’t killed…”
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Maher, who faced criticism for attending a White House dinner with the president last year, has often spoken out against those who compare Trump to Hitler.
On Friday’s show, he told his audience, per Fox News Digital, “This is why I was against this ‘He’s Hitler’ bull****. If you really believe that he is a Hitler McPedophile, then you kind of have to kill him. That’s the mentality they have.”
Maher said he remembered “when the shoe was on the other foot,” and it was leftists who were disturbed about violent rhetoric on the right. “The shoe is on the other foot now. I mean it’s on both feet,” he quipped.
He reiterated his thoughts on those who believe Trump’s death would resolve political tensions. “I don’t think you’re a good person… I wouldn’t want to be the person who thinks that way. Also, it’s just not smart,” he stated.
“You think that’s gonna solve the problem?” he asked. “MAGA’s not gonna die! We tried impeaching, that didn’t work. We tried going to the courts, that didn’t work. The only way this actually works: it’s happening. His popularity is at the lowest level it is, even among his core supporters.”
Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays at 10/9c, HBO
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Bill I gotta give you a tip of the cap of respect for that. We might not agree but at least you don’t want people who disagree with you exterminated. Thx for taking a bipartisan stand on that !!
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Bill might be right. People are unhappy with their own lives probably a lot because of inflation and the moral decay of our country. Clinton balanced the budget. After Clinton, our government spending was a disaster. Deficit spending and printing money is devaluing our dollar and causing inflation. In addition now, we have to pay interest on all this debt so we don’t have money to spend on other things . We had 20% inflation when Biden was the president. What that means is if someone wanted to buy a $500,000 house, it would cost them 600,000 at the end of Biden‘s presidency. What is that about an extra thousand dollars a month? that’s a lot more for most people to pay.
We’ve had a lot of presidents that approved a lot of things that we now cannot afford such as Bush prescription drugs for seniors, Obama care, the cost of all the illegals, and the list goes on.
Our country seems to have ethical decay with all the fraud and a lot of the other issues.
Most People aren’t happy when they can’t afford things they used to be able to afford. People are probably getting stressed about all their credit card debt, especially when they’ve got their credit card maxed out then what can they do?
Unless our country balances the budget things are gonna get worse, not better.
Instead of no ice and no kings, we need to have no new debt balance the budget protests. Trump isn’t a king and he will never be one. He won’t be the president in 2 1/2 years. A lot of things he wants he’s not getting.
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