I was never a fan of Bill Maher, but wtf is this?

[RT_Fanatic]

I don’t know how to take this. AFAIAC, Maher has always been a little too kind and forgiving of Felon47 and his Nazi buddies. So is he lying, or did Felon47 just put on a show, playing good boy so Bill would say nice things about him?

https://www.aol.com/bill-maher-praises-president-trump-024647659.html

[sop]

1. I think Maher's been hitting the bong a little too hard lately.

I'm sure Hitler was also quite "gracious" and "not fake" with dinner guests at the Berghof...while planning the blitzkrieg and final solution.

[Paladin]

2. If you're surprised by Maher blow-jobbing trump, you haven't been paying attention in recent years.

I trust that you DU'ers who still defend Maher will take all this into account---maybe quit supporting Maher's TV ratings, for starters...

[SocialDemocrat61]

9. ,Not very likely, Maher fans are

[Phoenix61]

3. I've heard Ted Bundy was very charming too.nt

[Turbineguy]

5. He helped wash dishes!

[Scrivener7]

4. Maher is a quisling.

Quislings were the people who sided with Nazi invaders for their own gain.

[chowder66]

6. But the rapist is soooooooo nice!! Not fake at all! He even signed my stuff!!

FUUUUUUUCKKKKKK BILL.

So everything shitty the Orange Pretender has done for decades (most of which has been documented and even prosecuted) is forgiven because he spent a few hours with him?

Why does Maher think people do business with him, marry him or have sex with him? It's because he's charismatic enough to lure them in
until he starts abusing them.

Bill Maher's grudge over political correctness has eaten his brain.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Bill Maher ceased to be funny a very long time ago

[lame54]

8. He doesn't want to...

Share a cell with Colbert and Kimmel

[highplainsdem]

10. Transcript of what Maher said here:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/12/bill-maher-donald-trump-full-monologue/83055277007/

[misanthrope]

11. Maher was really in over his head there

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You would think a guy who had lived in the midst of the entertainment industry as long as Maher has would be cannier about dealing with narcissists than he apparently is. I knew Maher's critical thought capacities were compromised to a degree by some of the things he has said in the past, but I had no idea.

How did science educator Cara Santa Maria date this dude?

[LAS14]

12. Thanks very much for this! nt

[Crunchy Frog]

13. He got conned by a con artist. He's not as smart as he thinks he is.

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. He's never been as smart as he thinks

He has a very black and white view of every issue.

[AStern]

16. He's one of the worst interviewers as well.

nt

[LAS14]

14. This and that.

"What I'm gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it,"

Maher conceded the Trump he met on March 31 was different from the persona he sees on TV. But he also acknowledged, "It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage."

He later added, "Why can't we get the guy I met to be the public guy?"

Thanks to HighPlainsDem for the link in reply #10.

1 - I like getting information about the enemy. It's valuable to know Trump can play the normal guy in private.

2 - I appreciate unfiltered info like Maher was giving in his report.

3 - I'm not particularly happy that Maher normalized Trump.

[ecstatic]

17. so I turned on CNN and heard his monologue

What a clown! Everything he's saying has already been confirmed by others, including Lawrence O'donnell. trump kissed LO's ass when they met.

trump is DEEPLY insecure and knows how to turn on the charm and conduct himself in one on one meetings. It doesn't matter what he does when pandering to you privately if his public actions are harming people. I guess Maher is now too old and senile / narcissistic to realize that. trump's reckless actions will kill millions of people.

Also, the contempt that maher now shows towards the people who supported him for decades is really unfortunate. When maga-teaparty types canceled him after 911, who had his back?

I gave up on his show years ago, but I truly hope he's playing 10-d chess here. A way to force his way into the circle of clowns that trump depends on for advice. I will admit that maher's advice would be a whole lot better than bannon or loomer's.

[Paladin]

18. "...maher's advice would be a whole lot better than bannon or loomer's."

Not bloody likely.

[LessAspin]

19. White Male Privilege Grievance Society

Bill Maher has always had one foot in the MAGA Club..

BTW don't overanalyze Maher prostituting himself to Trump

Maher works for the same fascists at Warner Bros Discovery who took over and corrupted CNN

I've known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with no real principles then and he remains so

This is so he can keep his HBO show

Keith Olbermann

https://bsky.app/profile/olbermann.bsky.social/post/3lmmuafnld22q

Link to tweet

[Xolodno]

20. He's an opportunist.

He fawned over Newsom not too long ago. If he thinks your ass will be connected to a chair with power in the future, he'll kiss it.

[Emile]

21. Fuck Maher and his centrist BS!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Some of us stopped listening to anything Bill Maher had to say in 2016

Link to tweet