Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher attempted to claim that President Donald Trump has largely been treated like any other president — but Lara Trump, the president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, stopped him in his tracks.
Maher spoke with Trump — the wife of President Trump&#8217;s second son, Eric — on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, and she made the point that her entire family had been put through the wringer over almost a decade. Maher pushed back, arguing that it was simply a part of being a public figure — and that it may have been more pronounced simply because he was the President of the United States — but Lara Trump thought otherwise.
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TRUMP: &#8220;Our family has been scrutinized, attacked under a microscope — I would probably argue more than any family.&#8221;
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&#8220;Our family has been scrutinized, attacked under a microscope — I would probably argue more than any family,&#8221; Trump began.
&#8220;Well, of course — because your father-in-law is the president,&#8221; Maher pushed back.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not just that he&#8217;s the president — it&#8217;s that he&#8217;s Donald Trump as the president,&#8221; Trump argued. &#8220;They&#8217;ve gone after all of us in such an aggressive way.&#8221;
&#8220;They would go after anybody,&#8221; Maher was not convinced. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t go after Obama and Clinton in an aggressive way?&#8221;
&#8220;Not like this, Bill,&#8221; Trump insisted.
Maher still made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t buying it: &#8220;Oh, please.&#8221;
&#8220;Really!? When did you see Obama and Clinton&#8217;s residences, personal private property, raided by the FBI?&#8221; Trump asked. &#8220;When did they have indictments against them to put them in jail for the rest of their life that everybody can agree were a little outrageous, Bill? Like, really!?&#8221;
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Maher agreed that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was probably &#8220;over the top,&#8221; but went on to say that if he didn&#8217;t want his bathroom raided, Trump &#8220;probably shouldn&#8217;t be keeping files in [the] bathroom.&#8221;
Eric Trump faced a similar line of questioning in early November when &#8220;The Daily T&#8221; host Tim Stanley asked, &#8220;Some of the siege that you faced — and I understand why it was very personal and distressing — can you accept that some of it was just people legitimately disagreeing with your father’s policies and using every lever available, as people generally do in politics, in order to push back?&#8221;
The president&#8217;s son said that he certainly understood some attacks would come with public life, but argued it was &#8220;different than raiding somebody’s house. That’s different than subpoenaing their children with the intent to literally try and bankrupt a company,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That’s different than calling every financial institution and telling them to debank a person. That’s different than making up dirty dossiers saying that there were golden you-know-whats happening with prostitution when it was totally fabricated and paid by the opposition.&#8221;

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Bill Maher Says Trump Has Been Treated Like Any Other President. His Daughter-In-Law Disagrees

Bill Maher Says Trump Has Been Treated 'Like Any President.' His Daughter-In-Law Disagrees

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President Donald Trump is stretching the “politics make strange bedfellows” saw to the breaking point.
Celebrity Nation leans aggressively to the Left, and anyone defying that groupthink puts their career at risk. Actor Zachary Levi said it out loud after he praised President Trump last year, calling the move <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/zachary-levi-endorsing-trump-lifeline-career-1236026923/">“career suicide.”</a>
That wasn’t the case in 2009, however, when celebrities flocked to President Barack Obama following his historic 2008 election. They pledged <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/celebrities-pledge-oath-obama/">to do whatever he told them to do</a>.
Different party, of course.
This past week, President Trump had recording artist Nicki Minaj indirectly singing his praises for drawing attention to a humanitarian crisis. The rapper took Trump’s side after the president called out the shocking slaughter of Christians in Nigeria.
Minaj, in connection with the administration, spoke before a UN event about the shocking headlines coming from the African nation.
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&#8220;In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted … Churches have been burned, families have been torn apart &#8230; simply because of how they pray.&#8221;
She also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nicki-minaj-nigeria-christians-trump-be7b03a3f1d4e43747fa26e600be5d3f">thanked the president</a> for leading the way on the matter to “combat extremism and to bring a stop to violence against those who simply want to exercise their natural right to freedom of religion or belief.”
Trump critics contend that multiple religions have been targeted during the violence spree, and that the nation has sadly been the source of extreme violence for some time.
Minaj’s appearance understandably rocked pop culture, but it wasn’t the first time.
For starters, Trump’s second term features former Democrats like Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., his Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Health and Human Services, respectively.
Journalist Megyn Kelly, who Trump once blistered during an early Q&amp;A, stumped for his presidency in the waning days of the 2024 campaign.
It’s Trump’s pop culture connections, though, that raise eyebrows the highest. Think Snoop Dogg, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Bill Maher, and others who famously linked arms with the president in the past.
It started during the President’s first White House foray. Rapper Kanye West hopped aboard the Trump Train, meeting with the world leader at Trump Tower in 2016 following an extended concert speech praising the real estate mogul.
Two years later, West wore a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/snl-kanye-west-gave-pro-trump-speech-maga-hat-1148092/">red MAGA</a> hat on “Saturday Night Live” and praised Trump, but the artist’s string of antisemitic rants and emotional meltdowns caused his fame to curdle into its current, sorry state.
West’s former wife, Kim Kardashian, has arguably had a more productive relationship with Trump. The reality show starlet teamed with Trump on prison reform measures. Kardashian, ignoring a celebrity culture that raged against all things Trump, made the trek to the White House to personally push for her pet cause.
The wannabe lawyer and Trump <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51744918">discussed reform measures</a> aimed at first-time offenders and those she felt were treated unfairly. That public relations coup led to the 2018 release of three young mothers — Crystal Munoz, Judith Negron, and Tynice Hall, all tied to drug-related charges.
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She also played a role in the <a href="https://time.com/5486560/prison-reform-jared-kushner-kim-kardashian-west/">2018 bill</a> that expanded the criminal reform initiative, allowing prisoners to earn credits for early release among its measures. Kardashian wasn’t the only player who made that happen, but she became its public face via her social media empire.
Trump’s second term has seen more of the same, right from the jump.
Rapper Snoop Dogg infamously starred in a 2017 music video in which he <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/trump-hits-back-at-snoop-dogg-assassination-video-idUSKBN16O04V/">“shot” a clownish Trump stand-in</a>.
Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39268735">blasted the clip</a>, telling TMZ at the time that, &#8220;If the wrong person sees that and gets the wrong idea, you could have a real problem.&#8221;
It was part of Hollywood’s collective wish for the real estate mogul to <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/celebrities-wished-trump-dead/">leave this mortal coil</a> during his first term.
The rapper/actor/pitchman apparently had a change of heart over time. By 2025, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43733/snoop-dogg-trump-perform-inauguration">Snoop Dogg performed</a> at a pre-inauguration gala dubbed the Crypto Ball alongside Rick Ross and Soulja Boy. That’s despite previously calling anyone who performed for Trump during his first term “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BPGvbw4jnvn/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again">Uncle Toms,” in a stereotypical, Stepin Fetchit-style voice</a>.
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The rapper even stood up to social media critics who trashed him for his about-face.
“Y’all can’t hate enough for me, I love too much,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BdjP-n8rIs">he told his critics</a>, via Entertainment Tonight. “We gotta pick each other up instead of putting each other down.”
Earlier this year, longtime Trump critic Bill Maher made the trek to the White House to break bread with his ideological foe. Maher got roasted for his trouble, including a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html">seething New York Times op-ed</a> from Larry David of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame.
Maher even suggested recently he’d like a second dinner with Trump while continuing to roast his leadership.
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How did the initial Maher-Trump dinner happen in the first place? Singer Kid Rock, a repeat guest on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, arranged for the unlikely meetup.
The wildest part of the dinner? Maher had <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwqzHsSEZY">Trump sign a list</a> of all the insults the president had thrown the comedian’s way over the years. Maher considers it a prized possession, one he has shown to his “Club Random” guests.
It took courage for stars to align with Trump during his first term.
Now, with a few more celebrities bucking conventional wisdom, the president’s “bedfellows” are looking a little less strange.
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Bill Maher had to school Patton Oswalt on what the Democratic Party has said about certain topics, accusing him of being in a “Bluesky bubble” and not knowing what’s going on.
The conversation took place during Monday’s episode of the “Club Random” podcast, as Maher complained that liberals were leaning too far left and embracing increasingly radical policies. “The Left freaked out about a lot of bullsh**,” Maher said. “Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border, education. We stopped being a scientific people.”
“But the Left certainly stayed scientific,” Oswalt insisted.
“No, they didn’t,” Maher replied, to which Oswalt asked, “Why not?”
“Because they think gender bullsh** that they went way too far with … What makes us a great country is that we respect minorities. We don’t think they’re lesser just because they’re lesser in numbers. That’s not what we started to teach, which was that every baby is — I don’t know — let’s not even put it on the birth certificate. That’s what they wanted.”
 “When were we teaching that?” Oswalt asked.
“Teaching it — it was a law here in California,” Maher explained. “Don’t put sex on the birth certificate. ‘We’ll see.’ Now, we’ve passed that period now.”
Oswalt said he didn’t remember that, prompting Maher to shoot back, “Because it doesn’t get in the Bluesky bubble.”
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At another point in the conversation, Maher asked Oswalt his opinion on immigration from Muslim countries and the negative effects it’s had on certain places, using the example of grooming gangs in the U.K. 
Maher asked the comedian if he knew about Pakistani grooming gangs, prompting Oswalt to jokingly ask if Maher was talking about the British royal family.
“See, that’s a big story. This is in the UK. That went on from like the 80s to the present … I’m talking about Pakistani men, who are immigrants, who were grooming poor, impoverished, white girls mostly and making them into prostitutes and sex slaves and like really nasty sh** that would pass for more normal in a traditional Pakistani society where women are not considered equal citizens,” Maher explained.
When asked how he could miss the story, Oswalt said he got his news from The Guardian and that it hadn’t been featured there. 
Maher has been vocally frustrated with the extremes of his party recently and has made enemies on the Left by calling them out for it. But he’s not fully red-pilled yet. At another point in the conversation, Maher claimed that representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would be a “fantastic candidate” for the White House if she “had some deprogramming.”

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher said on a recent podcast episode that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had the potential to be a great presidential candidate — but only if the self-described Democratic socialist went through some &#8220;deprogramming&#8221; first.
Maher made the comments on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast while speaking with fellow comedian Patton Oswalt, and the two immediately disagreed over how far was &#8220;too far&#8221; when it came to the direction of the American political Left.
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MAHER: &#8220;The Left freaked out about a lot of bullsh*t.&#8221;
OSWALT: &#8220;What did they freak out about?&#8221;
MAHER: &#8220;Gender, race, parenthood, schools, homelessness, crime, the border,… <a href="https://t.co/tT6nRydBgD">pic.twitter.com/tT6nRydBgD</a>
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&#8220;Remember when [Republicans] found the &#8216;damning&#8217; video of AOC dancing and drinking with her friends on the roof in college, and she looks so happy and beautiful and cool,” Oswalt asked. “Oh, they think it&#8217;s ending her career because they never did this. They were never that comfortable to do this.&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s reply was simple: &#8220;Yeah, and if she had some deprogramming, she could be such a fantastic candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you mean deprogramming?” Oswalt seemed taken aback.
&#8220;She’s never going to resonate with people outside of the bubble that she lives in and the very far Left,&#8221; Maher explained. He went on to cite a recent New York Times editorial, adding, &#8220;The only way the Democrats will ever win again …  is to be more moderate.&#8221;
Oswalt disagreed: &#8220;If people think she’s too far Left, then that shows another way this country is broken right now.&#8221;
Maher pushed back, saying that the country wasn&#8217;t &#8220;broken&#8221; — it just wasn&#8217;t as far Left as AOC.
Oswalt argued that if average Americans were not in line with AOC, that was because the country as a whole was not as &#8220;intelligent&#8221; as most people believed, and argued that the Left had followed science rather than blindly adhering to policies.
Maher was not buying that, however, and said so: &#8220;No, they didn’t! … they think gender bull***t that they went way too far with. That’s not scientific.&#8221;

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Bill Maher: AOC Would Be A Great Candidate — With Some ‘Deprogramming’ First

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher predicted on Friday that New York City&#8217;s mayor-elect — who identifies as a Democratic socialist — may be &#8220;the future of the party,&#8221; just not the party most people might think.
Maher argued that Mamdani, who ran for office and was elected as a Democrat, would likely promote policies that would ultimately do more to boost the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.
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&#8220;New rule,&#8221; Maher began. &#8220;Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party — unfortunately, it&#8217;s the Republican Party.&#8221;
There was a long pause then, followed by uncomfortable laughter.
&#8220;Get it?&#8221; Maher asked, and the laughs picked up volume. &#8220;And if you missed his victory speech in last week&#8217;s mayoral election in New York, don&#8217;t worry: you&#8217;ll see it in every attack ad for the next two years.&#8221;
Maher went on to say that he did not have any personal beef with the democratic socialist — but he wasn&#8217;t so keen on joining his party in its increasingly-rapid slide into the full-on embrace of socialism, and he didn&#8217;t see it succeeding in the United States.
&#8220;But before the whole left side of the country catches socialism fever, let&#8217;s listen to the other big winner in last Tuesday&#8217;s election, Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger — who, before the &#8217;24 election, said things like, &#8216;If the party didn&#8217;t shift to the center, we will get f***ing torn apart,'&#8221; Maher continued. &#8220;And, &#8216;We need to never use the word socialist or socialism ever again.&#8217; Well, she was right, but they didn&#8217;t listen. Typical. Am I right, ladies?&#8221;
Maher then pointed out that the younger generations felt like they&#8217;d been failed by capitalism. &#8220;They&#8217;re quiet-quitting capitalism and texting socialism that they&#8217;re &#8216;down to f***.&#8217; The thing is, socialism will f*** you because socialism, to put it simply, just doesn&#8217;t work and has never worked. Like Kevin Federline.&#8221;
&#8220;I know the kids think that stuff that happened before their appearance on the planet didn&#8217;t really happen, but it did,&#8221; Maher added, referencing the failures and accompanying death toll of socialism. &#8220;We&#8217;ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious.&#8221;
The results, he explained by citing Venezuela as an example, were almost always the same: wealthy, developed nations rapidly descending into chaos and widespread poverty.
&#8220;If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you&#8217;re in for a rude awokening,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Zohran can&#8217;t make your wishes come true. You&#8217;re thinking of Zoltar. Democratic socialism is like a dating profile: things look great until you meet up in the real world.&#8221;

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher ripped into media for leaning into panic in the framing of stories about President Donald Trump&#8217;s renovations at the White House — specifically the ballroom construction that required demolition of the East Wing.
Maher argued that people shouldn&#8217;t be so worked up over the fact that the president was making improvements to the White House — and he discussed the outrage over the construction project on Friday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Real Time&#8221; alongside Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).
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&#8220;The ballroom, I don’t give a s**t,&#8221; Maher explained, saying that ultimately the White House is &#8220;just a building&#8221; and might need a few updates from time to time anyway.
&#8220;I was reading — it shows you how the media is. Everything is always on one side or the other. When [Trump] first mentioned it, it was all about, ‘Oh, my God, he’s desecrating the White House.’ Then I finally read, ‘Oh, well, they’ve done s**t to the White House before,'&#8221; Maher said.
&#8220;I realized after reading other people, we don’t have a place when they have state dinners,&#8221; Maher added, noting that when presidents did entertain visiting heads of state, they did so in temporary structures. &#8220;They’re doing it in a tent! This is America! So do I give a s**t that he’s doing this to the White House? I really don’t&#8221;
Maher&#8217;s initial comments about the ballroom were mocking, as he marveled over the fact that Trump hadn&#8217;t had to go through the tedious process of getting permits to carry out the project.
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Bill Maher on President Trump’s ballroom: “Presidents have changed the White House in little ways before, but you know they always got approval from Congress… As a constitutionalist, I must say I find this appalling. As the guy who took 3 years to get my f—king solar panels in —… <a href="https://t.co/CGOdXRsv3t">pic.twitter.com/CGOdXRsv3t</a>
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&#8220;Presidents have changed the White House in little ways before, but you know they always got approval from Congress,&#8221; Maher said at the time. &#8220;As a constitutionalist, I must say I find this appalling. As the guy who took 3 years to get my f***ing solar panels in — I’m kind of jealous. I’m kind of in awe because I live in LA where you need 13 permits to put a bird feeder on your deck.&#8221;
Trump also announced in recent weeks that the Lincoln Bathroom had been renovated, marking the first update to that room since the 1940s.
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Bill Maher Blows Off Media Panic About Trump Ballroom: 'Do I Give A S***? I Really Don't!'

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher appeared taken aback when his guest, actor Michael Rapaport, revealed just how unsafe people feel in New York City — even during the daylight hours.
Rapaport joined Maher on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, where he described a number of situations in which his wife had felt unsafe in New York City — and then told Maher that every scenario he&#8217;d described had taken place between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *STUNNED* as Actor Michael Rappaport tells him how unsafe NYC feels🚨
RAPPAPORT: &#8220;I want people to feel safe in New York City. I want my wife to feel safe. My wife is a tough broad — she doesn&#8217;t feel safe in Midtown Manhattan during the day!&#8221;
MAHER: &#8220;Really!?&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/6xMwi4b2hu">pic.twitter.com/6xMwi4b2hu</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1985309204605731262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I want people to feel safe in New York City. I want my wife to feel safe. My wife is a tough broad — she doesn&#8217;t feel safe in Midtown Manhattan during the day!&#8221; Rapaport began.
&#8220;Really!?&#8221; Maher appeared surprised.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Rapaport confirmed.
&#8220;Really, like going out for lunch?&#8221; Maher asked, still apparently in disbelief.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying she&#8217;s f***ing shaking in her boots,&#8221; Rapaport clarified, and then described several scenes: &#8220;My wife in the last two or three years has been groped in Times Square, has had a f***ing shoe thrown at her, has been called the N-word and got proposed to on the train by a homeless person — all between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.&#8221;
&#8220;And when my wife got touched in the middle of the day coming out of a play, I&#8217;m not happy with that,&#8221; Rapaport continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care that you&#8217;re homeless! Don&#8217;t touch my f***ing wife! It bothered me so deeply that this happened to her, and that she&#8217;s got a shoe thrown at her &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Why a shoe?&#8221; Maher wanted to know.
&#8220;Because a crazy person,&#8221; Rapaport replied. &#8220;Crazy. But when you touch my wife, and my wife is violated, I get to thinking, I&#8217;m sorry that you&#8217;re mentally ill. I&#8217;m sorry that whatever you&#8217;re on, and whatever got you to this place, but you&#8217;re touching my wife at 3 p.m. at 47th and 6th. I want this person put the f*** away forever. Period! And there&#8217;s other women in New York City that also feel uncomfortable and unsafe.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m comfortable saying, &#8216;Put him under the f***ing jail.&#8217; And he should never come out — &#8217;cause God forbid he comes out and does something worse!&#8221; Rapaport concluded, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s not cool for women to feel unsafe during the daytime in the greatest city on earth.&#8221;

‘Really?’: Bill Maher Shocked To Hear How Unsafe NYC Has Become — Even In Broad Daylight

'Really?': Bill Maher Shocked To Hear How Unsafe NYC Has Become — Even In Broad Daylight

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher said that despite being a longtime critic of former President George W. Bush, he wouldn&#8217;t mind sitting down and having a conversation with the Texas politician.
Maher, on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, told former &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; host Billy Bush that with President Donald Trump in the White House again, he had turned around on a few issues, changing his mind particularly about how important it was to talk to people even when they hold very different views.
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I was hard [on Bush]— I’m not taking it back. I wasn’t for the invasion of Iraq, or just the basic Republican policies that he championed were not exactly my cup of tea. But I also have things more in perspective. He should know that, yes, I probably, looking back, could have been more reasonable,&#8221; Maher said.
Maher did say that he was not totally opposed to Bush&#8217;s idea to privatize Social Security: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like the worst idea.&#8221;
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Maher also praised Bush for encouraging former President Barack Obama after he won the 2008 presidential election. &#8220;We want you to succeed,&#8221; Bush said to his successor — and Maher couldn&#8217;t resist taking a swipe at Trump and saying that was something &#8220;you can’t imagine Donald Trump saying.&#8221;
But according to multiple sources, President Trump did leave the traditional note for President Joe Biden despite a contentious 2020 campaign — and although the contents of the note were never publicly revealed, Biden described it as a &#8220;very generous letter.&#8221; Biographer Chris Whipple took the description a step further, saying that Biden had found the letter to be &#8220;shockingly gracious.&#8221;
In a 2023 interview, Trump confirmed he&#8217;d left a &#8220;nice&#8221; letter for Biden and that he &#8220;took a lot of time in thinking about it&#8221; before he put pen to paper. He stopped short of revealing what he&#8217;d written, however, saying that it would be up to Biden to decide whether or not to do so.

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On Friday’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher slammed the media for their constant criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza while ignoring the horrific and systematic slaughter of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria.
In his back-and-forth with guest Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Maher bitterly denounced not only the media for ignoring the crisis in Nigeria, but American youths who routinely slam Israel, but never mention the obvious genocidal effort by Boko Haram and other Muslim groups to eliminate Nigerian Christians.
Open Doors, a Christian charity that reports on persecution of Christians around the world, told Fox News Digital, “The crisis facing large areas of sub-Saharan Africa is hard to overstate. It is potentially existential for the future peace and stability of several nations in the region, not least Nigeria. Around 150,000 people have been killed in Jihadist violence over the last 10 years. Over 16 million Christians have been driven from their homes and their land across the region.”
“Recent Open Doors research shows that more Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than the rest of the world combined,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-claims-slaughter-christians-nigeria-being-ignored-because-jews-arent-involved">added</a>.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Maher began. “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck. You are in a bubble. And again, I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They&#8217;ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They&#8217;ve burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more. These are the Islamists, Boko Haram. This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this?”
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“No one will talk about it, so thank you,” Mace responded. “It’s Africa, so no one’s talking about it, and they should be. You can’t read about it on mainstream media. It’s sad, so thank you for bringing it up.&#8221;
“Well, because the Jews aren’t involved. That’s why,&#8221; Maher responded. “It’s the Christians and the Muslims — who cares?”
As far back as April 2021, Maher <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-maher-israel-gaza-bella-hadid?utm_source=chatgpt.com">took aim</a> at the legacy media’s coverage of Israel, saying after coming back from a bout with COVID, “One of the frustrations I had while I was off is that I was watching this war go on in Israel … and it was frustrating to me because there was no one on liberal media to defend Israel, really. &#8230; We&#8217;ve become this country now that we&#8217;re kind of one-sided on this issue. And I&#8217;d also like to say off the bat I don&#8217;t think kids understand &#8212; and when I say kids, I mean the younger generations &#8212; you can&#8217;t learn history from Instagram. There&#8217;s just not enough space.”
“Hamas&#8217; charter says they just want to wipe out Israel,” he said bluntly. “Their negotiation position is, ‘You all die.’”

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Actor and director Rob Reiner sparred with comedian and HBO host Bill Maher over communication between Republicans and Democrats, and Reiner suggested that if such dialogues were to happen, Republicans would first have to agree to a few ground rules.
Reiner, known for his role as Mike &#8220;Meathead&#8221; Stivic on the CBS sitcom &#8220;All in the Family,&#8221; told Maher that it would be impossible for him to talk to Republicans unless they first agreed on certain &#8220;facts.&#8221;
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MAHER: &#8220;This would make some sense for the Democrats if they had any power. But the idea of &#8216;we don&#8217;t talk to you when we don&#8217;t even have the power&#8217;? Of course you… <a href="https://t.co/oqBdUUBkUB">pic.twitter.com/oqBdUUBkUB</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1970106707050193071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This would make some sense for the Democrats if they had any power. But the idea of &#8216;we don&#8217;t talk to you when we don&#8217;t even have the power&#8217;? Of course you have to talk to people!&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;I mean, there was an article —&#8221;
&#8220;But here&#8217;s the thing,&#8221; Reiner interrupted. &#8220;You&#8217;re right, but here&#8217;s the thing. Let&#8217;s say we&#8217;re gonna have that argument. You&#8217;re gonna talk to somebody and you have a point of view, the other person has a point of view. Before you have the exchange, you have to agree on certain facts!&#8221;
&#8220;No, you don&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t. Once you start down that road — these are — you just have to talk to people,&#8221; Maher said.
&#8220;No, no, you talk to people, but if somebody says 2+2 is 4 and the other guy says no it&#8217;s not, how do you begin the discussion?&#8221;
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s a — because, Rob, that&#8217;s a slippery slope! &#8230; If you start down that road of, &#8216;I can&#8217;t talk to you if you believe this crazy thing&#8217; — because maybe — you just can&#8217;t!&#8221; Maher said.

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Rob 'Meathead' Reiner Says Dems Should Impose 'Rules' Before Talking To Republicans

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher, a professed atheist, tried to claim that his sense of morality was not in any way based on the Bible — but Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro had other ideas.
Maher sparred with The Daily Wire co-founder and author during a recent broadcast of his show, where the comedian kicked off the conversation by claiming that because the Bible contained &#8220;nonsense and wickedness,&#8221; it must have been written by men rather than written or inspired by God as Jews and Christians believe.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@billmaher</a>: The Bible is full of nonsense and wickedness.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: But you and I agree a lot on morality, right? Because we were born in a society built by the Bible. You can think you formed your own morality, but you were born morally on third base.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s always such a silly argument, because if God wrote the book, how could there be &#8216;things we don&#8217;t agree with&#8217;?&#8221; Maher asked in mocking tones. &#8220;It&#8217;s either got to be perfect because it&#8217;s written by &#8216;you know who,&#8217; or it&#8217;s just not perfect and it&#8217;s written by people, which it was, obviously, and it&#8217;s full of nonsense and wickedness and things that are everything but virtuous.&#8221;
&#8220;So, Bill, you and I agree on morality, I&#8217;d say like 87%,&#8221; Shapiro said in response.
&#8220;Morality, but not from the Bible,&#8221; Maher protested.
&#8220;I have a question: Why?&#8221; Shapiro challenged Maher.
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s for slavery!&#8221; Maher exclaimed, claiming the Bible advocated slavery. &#8220;Because it&#8217;s okay with slavery —&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, no, no, why do you and I agree on morality like 87.5%?&#8221; Shapiro clarified the question. &#8220;I&#8217;m a religious Jew, you&#8217;re an atheist. Why do we agree on these things?&#8221;
Maher appeared to be still processing the question when Shapiro offered to give his answer to the question, and Maher invited him to go ahead.
&#8220;We probably grew up a few miles from each other in a western society that has several thousand years of Biblical history behind it,&#8221; Shapiro explained. &#8220;And so you can think that you hit that triple and you formed your own morality, but the reality is you were born, morally, on third base.&#8221;
&#8220;No, we —&#8221; Maher attempted to push back, but stalled out as the audience laughed.
Shapiro gave a longer explanation of the origins of morality during a debate with Sam Harris several years earlier, which can be viewed below:
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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher ripped into Senator Cory Booker after the latter posted a series of photos celebrating his engagement to Alexis Lewis, saying that while the New Jersey Democrat was certainly to be congratulated, he had a few pressing questions.
Maher, during his Friday evening show, shared the photos from Booker&#8217;s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DOHGXYujmKy/?hl=en&amp;img_index=5">Instagram post</a> and joked that they reminded him more of a television commercial for a pharmaceutical company than anything else.
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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *ROASTS* Cory Booker&#8217;s engagement photos🤣
&#8220;His engagement photos look like an ad for prescription drugs.&#8221;
&#8220;These pictures don&#8217;t make me think, &#8216;Great, now we can run for president without the stigma of being a bachelor.'&#8221;
&#8220;They make me think, &#8216;Don&#8217;t let… <a href="https://t.co/ypKqMke1R9">pic.twitter.com/ypKqMke1R9</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1964307325876895806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;New rule!&#8221; Maher began the segment, saying, &#8220;After we congratulate Senator Cory Booker on his recent engagement, he has to explain why his engagement photos look like an ad for prescription drugs.&#8221;
&#8220;Because these pictures don&#8217;t make me think, &#8216;Great, now we can run for president without the stigma of being a bachelor,'&#8221; Maher quipped. &#8220;They make me think, &#8216;Don&#8217;t let moderate to severe ulcerative colitis stand in your way. Ask your doctor about Zorlaxa.&#8221;
Booker had only just revealed that he was in a serious relationship a short time prior to the announcement, which came some three years after his split from actress Rosario Dawson.
&#8220;I am savoring the soul-affirming wonder of everyday life with my partner, best friend, and now my fiancée,&#8221; Booker said of Alexis in his Instagram post. &#8220;We are excited for this journey ahead, having so much fun, and feeling deeply grateful for the love, support, and energy so many of you have shared with us. We are truly blessed to be surrounded by such a beautiful community lifting us in love and commitment.&#8221;

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Bill Maher Flames Cory Booker's Engagement Photo Sesh: 'An Ad For Prescription Drugs'

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