CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings laid into comedian Larry David (&#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8221;) during a recent panel discussion, arguing that he was using his platform to shut down political discourse and bully other Democrats into silence.
Jennings referenced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/larry-david-whines-about-bill-maher-giving-donald-trump-a-chance-with-trite-hitler-comparison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent op-ed</a> David wrote — in which he suggested that comedian Bill Maher having dinner with President Donald Trump was no different than having dinner with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — and argued that David&#8217;s goal was not so much to shame Maher as it was to issue a warning to anyone who might have considered meeting with Trump in the future.
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&#8220;The message of this is not to — because Bill Maher, first of all, I totally agree, he&#8217;s totally in the right to do it,&#8221; Jennings began, saying that while he certainly disagreed with Maher on a wide range of political issues, he felt the HBO host was right to encourage dialogue with people who have different political views. &#8220;I loved his monologue, even thought I disagree with almost everything he believes politically, he ws right to do this and he was right to speak out about it.&#8221;
&#8220;But this isn&#8217;t about that dinner. It&#8217;s about the next one,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;Because this is the modern Left. It&#8217;s an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again. It&#8217;s to silence yourselves, or we&#8217;ll do it for you. That&#8217;s the purpose of this op-ed, so that the next comedian, or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t — this is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders,&#8221; he concluded.
Maher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-telling-you-it-happened-bill-maher-reveals-what-was-said-during-private-dinner-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met with Trump</a> at the behest of mutual friend Kid Rock, and later delivered a monologue describing just how different the president had been in person than he was on the public stage. The comedian did not hold back the criticism, however, and argued that he&#8217;d prefer to see the private version of Trump take on the public-facing role.

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CNN Republican Torches Larry David’s ‘Dinner With Hitler’ Column Attacking Bill Maher

CNN Republican Torches Larry David's 'Dinner With Hitler' Column Attacking Bill Maher

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Larry David

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Politics

Scott Jennings

Larry David can’t stand the fact that Bill Maher didn’t hate Donald Trump after they had dinner together.
The 77-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator wrote an opinion piece attacking Maher for being open-minded, repeating the tired trope throughout the piece that Trump is Hitler.
The satirical <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html">essay</a> based on Maher’s remarks, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” was published by The New York Times on Monday. 
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote, pretending to tell the story from Maher’s perspective. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
David went on, “I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”
“‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night,” David’s essay says.
Maher, who has been openly critical of Trump, had a private dinner with the president earlier this month. He later admitted to enjoying himself and feeling better about the president on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlopbcfXpQ">show</a>, &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221;
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f***,” Maher said of the meeting. 
“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost,’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that,’” Maher added. “He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
“Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was — I swear to God — absent, at least on this night with this guy,” the “Real Time” host said. “He mostly steered the conversation to, ‘What do you think about this?’ I know: your mind is blown. So is mine.”
“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House,” he added. “A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f***ed up. It’s just not as f***ed up as I thought it was.”

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Larry David Whines About Bill Maher Giving Donald Trump A Chance With Trite ‘Hitler’ Comparison

Larry David Whines About Bill Maher Giving Donald Trump A Chance With Trite 'Hitler' Comparison

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New York Times

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher revealed what was said — and what surprised him — when he met with President Donald Trump at the White House nearly two weeks earlier.
Trump had mentioned his plans to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confirms-meeting-with-bill-maher-it-might-be-fun-or-it-might-not">dinner</a> with Maher, saying it “might be fun or it might not,” admitting that the summit had been brokered by mutual friend and musician Kid Rock.
Maher shared his thoughts on the meeting during Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time,” noting that they had certainly not agreed on everything and he “didn’t go MAGA,” but admitting that all of the things he disliked about Trump’s more public persona had been “absent” when they met in person.
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Twelve days ago, I had dinner with President Trump, a dinner that my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/KidRock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KidRock</a> set up because we share the belief that there has to be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away. <a href="https://t.co/KE2t2eyBkI">pic.twitter.com/KE2t2eyBkI</a>
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Maher said that he had, as has been previously reported, printed up a list of about 60 insults that Trump had hurled his way over the years. Trump, he said, signed the printout “with good humor.”
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f***,” Maher said.
As they toured the White House, Maher said he was surprised to hear Trump say aloud that he had lost the 2020 presidential race.
“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something to do with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost,’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that,’” Maher explained. “He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
At one point, Trump pointed to a portrait of the late President Ronald Reagan, claiming that the “best thing about him” was his hair.
“I said, ‘Well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing.’ I was waiting for the Diet Coke button to be pushed and I go through the trap door, but no, he laughed. He got it,” Maher said, commenting on how genuine Trump’s laughter was and how much more “measured” he was in private.
The comedian raised the question of dogs, noting that many previous presidents had kept them at the White House. Trump argued that they’d done so for political reasons, prompting Maher to object that some people just like dogs.
“[Trump said], ‘Oh yeah, okay, that’s true,'&#8221; Maher recalled. “I’m telling you it happened!”
Maher did not withhold criticism, however, saying, “It doesn&#8217;t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage. … Why can&#8217;t we get the guy I met to be the public guy?”

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‘I’m Telling You, It Happened!’: Bill Maher Reveals What Was Said During Private Dinner With Trump

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On Tuesday, Kid Rock shared details of President Donald Trump&#8217;s meeting with liberal comedian Bill Maher, declaring that &#8220;everybody’s mind was kind of blown.&#8221;
The rock star, who got to <a href="https://x.com/News4SA/status/1907109777441706181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">witness</a> Trump sign an executive order designed to crack down on price gouging in ticket resales, joined Fox News to discuss how he convinced Maher to meet Trump and what actually happened when they all got together for dinner, along with UFC CEO Dana White.
Both Trump and Maher — who have been heavily critical of each other over the years — had previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confirms-meeting-with-bill-maher-it-might-be-fun-or-it-might-not" target="_blank" rel="noopener">credited</a> Kid Rock with brokering the get-together on Monday.
&#8220;I went on Bill’s show, I went on his podcast and I said, &#8216;Man, you know, nothing happens if people don’t break bread together and meet face-to-face.&#8217; He’s been one of the president’s hardest critics. And we came to dinner, me, Bill, Dana White, and it could not have been better,&#8221; the rock star said.
&#8220;Everyone was so surprised. It was so pleasant,&#8221; Kid Rock added. &#8220;The most shocking thing to me was Bill is obviously a big liberal and very hard on the president. He’s donated a lot of money to other politicians. You know, you&#8217;ve had Biden, Clinton, Obama — everybody — he had never been to the White House.&#8221;
But, Kid Rock said, Trump was &#8220;gracious&#8221; and gave them a tour of the White House.
&#8220;He took us up to the private residence. We saw the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I was like, you’ve never been here, Bill? And I was like, how about this? President Trump, you know, extending this olive branch and we talked about things we had in common.&#8221;
Kid Rock said they discussed &#8220;ending wokeness&#8221; and &#8220;securing the border.&#8221; He noted that Trump asked Maher about policy on Iran and Israel, and remarked, &#8220;It blew my mind. I was very proud.&#8221;
&#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host Lawrence Jones asked, &#8220;Do you think he walked away liking him? Because, you know, Trump is the type of person you have to meet him to understand him,&#8221; to which Kid Rock responded in the affirmative.
&#8220;100%. 100%. Me and Dana both said there was like — there has never been anyone who has ever met the president in any scenario who has walked away without saying, like, wow, what a great guy. He&#8217;s so funny, so engaging, he&#8217;s so smart. And absolutely, Bill even said to me — after that he goes, &#8216;Wow, that was — &#8216; you know, everybody’s mind was kind of blown.&#8221;
Kid Rock went on to say: &#8220;The president called me late last night. Everyone was a little suspect about going into this. Even the president [said to me], like, &#8216;What have you got me doing?&#8217; I go, man, we’re trying to show people that even though we’ve been hard on each other, that when you get face-to-face, maybe we can have more civility in this country and try to bring people together, you know. That was my whole intention.&#8221;
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Kid Rock Dishes On Trump’s Meeting With Bill Maher: ‘Everybody’s Mind Was Kind Of Blown’

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On Sunday, President Donald Trump said that he reluctantly plans to meet with Bill Maher, a liberal comedian who has been very critical of him over the years.
Maher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-an-honor-bill-maher-explains-why-hes-going-to-meet-soon-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> during a recent episode of his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast that he took up a proposal from Kid Rock — a rock star who supports Trump — to meet with the president. On Truth Social, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114254057682596962" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would go through with the get-together as a favor to Kid Rock.
&#8220;I got a call from a very good guy, and friend of mine, Kid Rock, asking me whether or not it would be possible for me to meet, in the White House, with Bill Maher, a man who has been unjustifiably critical of anything, or anyone, TRUMP. I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;The problem is,&#8221; Trump added, &#8220;no matter how much he likes your Favorite President, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc., very much like the Democrats at my recent Address to the Joint Session of Congress, where I stated, correctly, that no matter what I said or did, they wouldn’t stand, they wouldn’t applaud, they wouldn’t smile or laugh and, certainly, they wouldn’t be in any way &#8216;nice.'&#8221;
He ended the post by saying: &#8220;Who knows, though, maybe I’ll be proven wrong? In any event, I’m doing a favor for a friend. I look forward to meeting with Bill Maher, Kid Rock and, I believe, even the Legendary [UFC CEO] Dana White will be present. It might be fun or, it might not, but you will be the first to know!&#8221;
Trump did not provide a date for when the meeting will take place.
Maher, who has in the past been the subject of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/trump-withdraws-orangutan-lawsuit-against-comic-bill-maher-idUSBRE9310PL/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">litigation</a> filed by Trump and levied very harsh criticisms of the president, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-an-honor-bill-maher-explains-why-hes-going-to-meet-soon-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he expected to make people on the Left upset over the planned meeting. But the comedian emphasized that his side did lose the election and that people should talk despite their differences.
&#8220;It’s an honor to be invited to the White House under any circumstance,&#8221; Maher said.

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher said this week that he has accepted an invitation from President Donald Trump to have a private dinner at the White House because he believes it could help heal political divisions in the country.
Maher made the remarks during an interview with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo when asked about the response he has gotten since accepting the invite.
&#8220;Maybe this is a beginning to heal America,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Now, I don’t have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America. I can’t. Okay, let’s get that clear. I’m not going to be healing America. But if two guys who’ve been at each other for so long — I mean, it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing.&#8221;
&#8220;I have the credentials,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There was nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about the fact that he wasn’t going to leave office voluntarily than I was. I feel like I have the credentials. But they also respect me because I’m honest about the woke train to crazy town. And I don’t shrink from that. And I’ve also lost a lot of fans for that. The woke people have left the building and I’m willing to make that sacrifice, but it does give you a certain credibility.&#8221;
He said that regardless of who the president is, it&#8217;s &#8220;an honor to be invited to the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;And I’ve already had a couple of people who I said to them, you know, I’m just gonna take it as a backhanded compliment that you glide right past the idea that little Bill Maher from River Vale, New Jersey, just a humble kid from the suburbs was invited for a private dinner at the White House,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You glide right past that to how dare you talk to him and that you’re not impressed by it at all.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m impressed by it a lot,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’m impressed the f*** out of it. I get to go to the White House and, yes, that is the structure of this dinner is just, let’s talk. Let’s talk to each other face to face. Let’s not stop shouting from 3,000 miles away, you know? So if they expect me to be leaving in a MAGA hat, they’re gonna be very disappointed, but I know they don’t. And I think it’s gonna be, you know, look, it probably will accomplish very little, but you gotta try, man. You gotta try.&#8221;
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Comedian Bill Maher warned Democrats this week that they have not hit the floor yet with how low the party can sink as it experiences record-low support from the American public.
Maher delivered the remarks on Friday during his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while talking about how people are fleeing Democrat-controlled states for Republican states.
&#8220;I just saw this really bad news for Democrats,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;2030 reapportionment, there&#8217;s a group called the American Redistricting Project, and in five years we will be redistricting.&#8221;
&#8220;California is projected to lose three seats, New York, two,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also gonna lose a seat, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Illinois. All blue states.&#8221;
&#8220;Who&#8217;s getting these?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Texas, Florida, Idaho, and Utah. I mean, this looks like game over.&#8221;
He said that people are &#8220;voting with their feet&#8221; because of deeply unpopular views that Democrats have on key issues, including believing in high taxes and lots of government regulation.
“I’ve certainly been screaming about it forever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I did three years with a sign here that said, ‘How long is it gonna take me to get my solar hooked up?&#8217; Three years. Talking about it on television in this state, you couldn’t do it!”
He said that California alone has more than 400,000 regulations and that he experienced significant difficulty getting his roof replaced recently following the fires that ravaged the state earlier this year, saying that the state made him undergo multiple inspections.
&#8220;It&#8217;s my f***ing roof!&#8221; he exclaimed. &#8220;If it falls on me, that&#8217;s my problem. And we&#8217;re taxed more than any other state.&#8221;
&#8220;People are leaving these kinds of states for places where they don&#8217;t feel the heavy breadth of government on them,&#8221; he said. “It’s not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they don’t, they seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.&#8221;
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‘This Looks Like Game Over’: Bill Maher Warns That Democrats Have Not Hit Bottom Yet

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The Democrats are in disarray, and that’s not a partisan talking point.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-flail-schumer-fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">days in charge may be waning</a>. Polling suggests the Democrat brand is at a shocking low. Progressives keep taking the 20 side of 80/20 debates like trans women competing against biological female athletes.
And the GOP controls the White House, the Senate and the House, the latter albeit by a whisker.
Enter three Hollywood liberals who grasp their party’s sorry state. They’re rarities in this space, willing to share contrary views no matter the consequences.
They may be truth tellers, full stop. Perhaps they understand their party is making a mad dash for the electoral cliff and they want them to stop before they fall to their doom.
Take Bill Maher. He’s been a constant presence in pop culture for decades, first on ABC’s “Politically Incorrect” and now via “Real Time with Bill Maher” and the “Club Random” podcast.
And, for all of that time, he’s been a proud liberal with a dash of Libertarianism for good measure.
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Maher has hated President Donald Trump from the jump and takes delight in mocking GOP figures like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. He once <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/flashback-bill-maher-trashed-sarah-palin-family-inbred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocked her family</a> as a clan of “inbred weirdos” straight out of “The Hills Have Eyes” movie that featured mutant killers.
Palin’s child has Down Syndrome.
Yet in recent years Maher has been one of the Left’s most ardent critics. He’s savaged fellow progressives on the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64058436/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woke Mind Virus</a>, to use a certain billionaire’s phrase.
He even sided with President Trump recently regarding the move to pull funding from Columbia University for <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/08/maher-trumps-right-to-pull-some-funds-from-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing to protect Jewish students</a>.
Maher regularly invites conservative guests on his “Club Random” show and recently stood up to guest Don Lemon for calling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-shuts-down-don-lemons-racist-comments-about-black-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black MAGA supporters irrational.</a>
Radio show titan Charlamagne Tha God also refuses to toe the party line 24/7. The host of “The Breakfast Club” radio show often clashes with the progressive groupthink, much to the shock of many Democrats.
Recently, Charlamagne Tha God questioned why his fellow Democrats were fighting to stop Team Trump from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlamagne-tha-god-asks-why-anyones-raising-hell-over-gang-members-being-sent-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deporting dangerous illegal immigrants</a>.
“Like, there are some other deportation cases, I’m sure they could be fighting about, like folks who’ve been in this country for a long time, not committing no crimes, paying taxes, but have gotten caught up in the process,” he added. “Those are folks they should be fighting for. Why are they raising hell about a gang being deported?”
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It’s a question few liberal celebrities are willing to ask. It’s one of many reasons the polls have been so cruel to modern-day Democrats.
He also defended rappers like Snoop Dogg from hardcore Leftists for performing at Trump’s second inaugural gala. You can’t savage stars for doing that while letting Democrats off the hook after they said Trump was Hitler 2.0 and a threat to democracy.
Those same politicians lined up to congratulate Trump following his 2024 electoral victory.
“We know why the rappers did what they did. We know why they’re doing it. They got paid. What’s the politicians’ excuse for normalizing Trump?”
The talker even called the “lawfare” attacks on Trump <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/01/13/charlamagne-tha-god-calls-prosecution-of-trump-pure-political-theater-ridiculous-watching-liberals-celebrate-this/">pure “theater</a>.” That’s something you’ll never hear on the late-night TV circuit or “Saturday Night Live.” It also resonates with voters across the political spectrum.
Few celebrities haunted President Trump quite like Michael Rapaport. The star of “Atypical,” “Beautiful Girls,” and many other projects used his podcast and social media to savage the president at every turn.
The <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-rapaport-threatens-hog-tie-032648035.html">word “pig”</a> may be the only one suitable for family-friendly consumption.
That was then. In recent months, Rapaport has been busy attacking his own side on many fronts. 
Take <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/michael-rapaport-trump-charlottesville-lie/">the “Very Fine People” hoax</a>. The actor initially fell for it and blasted Trump via his social media platforms. He later learned the media had fed him a false narrative. He could have stayed quiet about it, but he had to speak out.
“When you see the full quote, that wasn’t what [Trump] said and I ranted on him hard for that, hard … I was like, ‘what are you talking about, man?&#8217;” Rapaport recalled.
Remember, Joe Biden launched his last presidential campaign with that lie.
How many liberal celebrities would not only do their own research on a chronic anti-Trump narrative but later go public with a mea culpa? That’s rhetorical.
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The actor also has repeatedly lashed out at Hollywood liberals for staying silent on the Hamas hostage ordeal. He even starred in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5esBxX5YoI&amp;t=26s">faux Oscars sketch</a> where he used his monologue to mock activist celebrities for standing down when they should be screaming for the hostages’ release
This all matters because the vast majority of Hollywood liberals refuse to concede their party’s current, sorry state. We’ve recently seen late-night hosts take delight in domestic terrorist attacks against Tesla dealerships, for example, just to burnish their anti-DOGE, anti-Musk bona fides.
Both Jimmy Kimmel and “The Daily Show’s” Jordan Klepper teed up images of burning Teslas while their audiences clapped in approval.
That cruelty may appease the hardcore Democratic base, but it’s surely alienating left-leaning voters and independents alike.
As a result, Democrats will double down on their deeply unpopular beliefs. They might even watch as their polling numbers droop anew.
They’d be wise to follow Maher, Charlamagne Tha God and Rapaport. The trio is trying to save fellow Democrats from themselves. Their warnings still may fall on deaf ears, meaning the 2028 election cycle could look suspiciously like 2024 for Democrats.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.
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Liberal comedian Bill Maher said he will soon be meeting with President Donald Trump despite his criticism of the president in the past, and he doesn’t care what anyone on the Left thinks about it.
During an upcoming episode of “Club Random” podcast on Sunday, Maher and his guest podcaster Andrew Schulz talk about Trump’s re-election and the host reveals that he agreed to Kid Rock’s request to meet with the president at the White House.
&#8220;Kid Rock was here a couple of weeks ago, and he said, ‘I want you to meet Trump.’ He said, &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna take you to the White House,’” Maher said. “So now we&#8217;re gonna do that.”
Maher predicted leftists will get upset about him talking to Trump, but he doesn’t care.
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Bill Maher reveals he&#8217;s going to meet Trump at the White House <a href="https://t.co/6QA3aRGRuC">https://t.co/6QA3aRGRuC</a>
— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1903129909532483811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;And there will be lots of people on the Left who will be like, ‘How dare you talk to this man.&#8217; It&#8217;s like, f*** you, I&#8217;m not playing this game that you mean girls play,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;&#8216;Oh, you know what? You can&#8217;t sit at my lunch table because I&#8217;m just not talking to you.&#8217; Not talking to you? You lost the election. Who the f*** do you think you have to talk to?&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing if you win it. It&#8217;s another thing if you lose it,&#8221; he added. “You have to talk to people.”
The liberal talk show host also took a dig at Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting in the Oval Office and said he won’t be dressed like Zelensky, who many mocked after the leader showed up in non-formal attire for his White House meeting.
“It’s not going to be a black t-shirt. I am wearing a suit and tie,” he added, noting a suit Jordan Peterson once gave him. “The Jordan Peterson approved suit. It’s a sign of respect. It’s the White House.”
“And you also have to respect that the guy did win,” he added. “More than half the country. … You can not like Trump. You can hate him. You can’t hate everyone who voted for him. I said it in my last special, I don’t hate half the country and I don’t want to hate half the country.”
Maher reiterated that unlike other liberals, he will “talk to anybody” and “it’s an honor to be invited to the White House under any circumstance.”
The comedian previously made headlines when he shut down former CNN host Don Lemon’s racist comments about black supporters of Trump when Lemon said a “huge faction of the MAGA movement” are “really f***ing racist” and that you can’t be black “and be a rational MAGA person,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-shuts-down-don-lemons-racist-comments-about-black-trump-supporters">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-shuts-down-don-lemons-racist-comments-about-black-trump-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher Shuts Down Don Lemon’s Racist Comments About Black Trump Supporters</a>

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Bill Maher shut down former CNN host Don Lemon’s racist comments about black supporters of President Donald Trump when he said a &#8220;huge faction of the MAGA movement&#8221; are &#8220;really f***ing racist&#8221; and that you can&#8217;t be black &#8220;and be a rational MAGA person.&#8221;
During Lemon’s appearance on Maher’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6YXgYRifdU&amp;t=1499s">Club Random podcast</a>,” the two talked about Tom Hanks’ “Black Jeopardy” sketch on “Saturday Night Live,” in which he reprised his role as a Trump supporter wearing a red MAGA cap.
“I get all the bad things about the [Trump] administration, but if you think they don’t shake black people’s hands, it’s just, you’re wrong,” Maher said in response to the sketch. “It’s just not helpful to think that half the country, that’s where they are.”
Lemon said part of the sketch is comedy, but “let’s be honest,&#8221; there’s a “huge faction of the MAGA movement that’s really f***ing racist.”
Maher disagreed, saying: “I wouldn’t say huge. No.”
“I would say huge,” Lemon replied. “But even if they’re not, you have to overlook a lot of that in order to support Donald Trump, which I think is maybe even more egregious than just saying, ‘I’m a racist.’”
“I don’t think all of MAGA is racist,&#8221; Lemon continued. &#8220;But I do think that there’s a huge element in the MAGA party that is racist—whether they are, whether they are conscious of it or not … some of them are not.”
“And if they are not, they have had to overlook a lot of racism and a lot of bigotry,” he added. “And if you do that and you say, ‘I’m ok with this,’ that I think that makes you worse than someone who just says, ‘Hey, I’m a racist.’”
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Former CNN host Don Lemon went on Bill Maher&#8217;s podcast yesterday and said black people can&#8217;t be MAGA.
Don: “I don&#8217;t think that you can be black and be a rational MAGA person.”
Bill: “I think they would find that very insulting.”
Don: “ Well I mean, the truth is often… <a href="https://t.co/kWc9AWl9mI">pic.twitter.com/kWc9AWl9mI</a>
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/devorydarkins/status/1901622088550719732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
“When I see a black MAGA person who is carrying Trump’s water and they know he is lying … I don’t think that you can be black and be a rational MAGA person, I think you can be black and be a Republican,&#8221; Lemon <a href="https://x.com/devorydarkins/status/1901622088550719732">continued</a> later.
Maher responded and said black Trump supporters would find Lemon&#8217;s comments &#8220;very insulting.&#8221;
​​&#8221;Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting,&#8221; the former CNN host replied.
Lemon was fired from CNN in 2023 and later announced plans to have his own YouTube podcast to try to make it on his own in the independent media lane.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-slams-megyn-kelly-after-she-celebrates-joy-reids-termination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon Slams Megyn Kelly After She Celebrates Joy Reid’s Termination</a>

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Liberal comedian Bill Maher questioned on his show this week whether the Department of Education was even worth saving after learning that the Biden administration funneled tens of billions of dollars to questionable environmentalist groups during its final days in office.
Maher made the remarks on Friday during a panel discussion on his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while discussing cuts to the federal government that Trump is making.
“What does the panel think of the Trump administration gutting and potentially eliminating the Department of Education?” Maher asked the panel.
After Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) lamented what the cuts could mean for special needs and impoverished children, Maher mentioned that the issue is really about whether the funding is even doing anything useful to begin with.
&#8220;I guess what the question though really is, is the Department of Education doing that?&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Now, they probably are doing some good work. I&#8217;m sure they are. What is their budget? Like, $200 billion or something.&#8221;
&#8220;But it also looks like some of these places are just funneling money to people who are not solving the problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, I saw that story about the $20 billion that went out the door after Biden lost.&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s remarks about the $20 billion that went out the door during the final days of the Trump administration was a reference to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lee-zeldin-reveals-epa-found-unprecedented-scheme-biden-admin-used-to-funnel-money-to-leftists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealing</a> that the EPA had discovered that Biden funneled that money to far-Left activist groups.
&#8220;There was $20 billion that they shoveled to groups because Trump was coming and then they were going to reverse all this stuff,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;They were supposedly environmental groups and they were not really environmental groups and they had no experience in doing it.&#8221;
&#8220;Like I said before, I care about the plastics. Do I think this money was going to get rid of the plastics in my brain? I do not,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So I am skeptical of the Department of Education, I think every Democrat who runs really needs to take on this issue, because that&#8217;s your portfolio, education. You&#8217;ve owned it and the results aren&#8217;t good.&#8221;
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Bill Maher, the host of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; said during an interview late last week that Democrats need to drop their support for the transgender movement if they want to start winning again.
Maher made the remarks on the leftist podcast &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; with former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett.
&#8220;The Democratic position in [California] has been that the school has the right to hide it from the parents,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;That is not something that’s going to go well with the average voter.&#8221;
He said that in far-Left parts of America, schools &#8220;constantly had this idea in the minds of children that maybe you&#8217;re not in the right body.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, the New England Journal of Medicine advocated for taking sex off of a birth certificate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was like, &#8216;your assigned sex at birth.&#8217; Well I was assigned it by my dick, okay, when I was born. And again, to tell kids, it doesn&#8217;t always have to be and isn&#8217;t always the default setting, but that&#8217;s a different mentality than they put in the minds of kids, and that&#8217;s why this debate goes on.&#8221;
He said that people were fed up with being told that they were bigots if they wanted to even debate the topic.
&#8220;And the fact that you think, or a lot of people on the Left think, that even if you just have this debate, it makes you a bigot, you just have to roll over … that was their position,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you even question this, you&#8217;re some sort of a bigot. And this is new science. And it has to do with children. And it&#8217;s not going to look good in the future, that position.&#8221;
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Bill Maher in a heated debate about trans with Pod Save America host where he warns Democrats that they will keep losing elections if they continue to die on that hill: 
Maher: &#8220;You want you want to lose every election: Just keep coming down on the side of parents coming in… <a href="https://t.co/AgjCnQBKgc">pic.twitter.com/AgjCnQBKgc</a>
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1893736142694207569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote>

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