Bill Maher Tells Chris Cuomo Trump Will Get a ‘Whooping’ in Midterms But Still Worries About Dems

Real Time host Bill Maher predicts a “historic a** whooping” for Donald Trump and the Republicans in the upcoming midterms, but he worries that Democrats will “misinterpret” what this means.

Maher spoke with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday (October 8), where he reiterated that he believes the Republican Party is in for a severe thumping in the November midterms. “Because there’s a message that has to be sent,” he said, per Mediaite.

“I worry about 2028 on both sides because you know… I think both sides certainly have their crazies,” Maher continued, but said, “that is business that will have to wait.”

He added, “The voters have one piece of business on their mind right now, and that is, you know, half the country didn’t like Trump to begin with. Any chance to give him a thumping, they welcome.”

The Club Random podcast host said there is a “lame duck aspect to this,” explaining, “This is the last run, and [Trump’s] just not King Kong anymore.”

If Trump takes a beating like Maher predicts, Cuomo wanted to know whether that means the Democrats made their case to the American people.

“Absolutely not,” Maher responded. “They have not renounced they are crazy at all. In fact, they’re going full steam ahead. That’s why I’m so worried about 2028. And a lot of the far-left will take it… Trump’s loss, they will misinterpret it as a recommendation for what they’re trying to do. You know, the whole thing with communism.”

The comedian continued, “And it is communism. I know Trump says it [but] that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. When you talk about taking over the means of production and taking over all the private industries, that’s communism, folks. You can look it up.”

Maher argued that people will be voting in the midterms based on one thing, “which is Donald Trump.”

“And again, it is drunk on power,” he addded. “You know, it happens to both sides. They get in, and just, job one is just undoing the thing that the other a**hole did, you know, and that’s just no way to run a railroad.”

While Maher acknowledged that these back-and-forth battles are a part of politics, he said, “When it gets to be this vitriolic, this personal, this hateful, this just, ‘Everything you do, I just want to undo it and disavow it.’ And even when it makes sense not to, they’re just hate. When hate takes over, people stop listening to any of the logic.”

You can watch the segment in the video above.