Bill Maher invited Lara Trump on his show this week and at one point he stopped the show to explain why he stopped taking cheap shots at President Trump. It’s really easy to dehumanize someone you’ve never met, but after that White House dinner, Bill has been singing a new tune about President Trump. Sure, they’re not suddenly best buddies and Bill is not suddenly MAGA, but he’s adopting a reasonable approach at this point that I think can be respected. Maybe not praised, but respected. Bill Maher once again told the truth about President Trump and once again when he gave a rational, honest evaluation the truth ended up being a real compliment to President Trump.
WOW: Bill Maher just gave Trump some MASSIVE concessions on what he’s doing right. This wasn’t the usual snark from Maher. He admitted Trump wasn’t wrong on tariffs, or on forcing NATO to pay their fair share of defense budgets. Then Maher pivoted to something much deeper. Look, I’ll say this for Trump. Um, he’s got this idea that America is still the biggest swinging dick in the world, and we have not used our power as much as we should. That’s what the tariffs were about. We have the power to change these people’s, other nation’s, trading practices with us—some of which were out of line. I’m surprised that people went along with it as much as they did, so he wasn’t completely wrong about that. He said, “Look, NATO hasn’t been paying their fair share. I’m gonna make them do that.” He wasn’t wrong about that. And I’ll tell you this, one thing about him that I know—not gonna tell you how I know, but a lot of people have seen the same thing—he really does hate war. He really does not like it when people die in war.
I love how you can hear the crowd nervously waiting for Bill to burn Trump so they can have some stupid laugh, and then it never comes. Of course it was only a couple months ago that this happened: A couple weeks ago, Bill Maher joined President Trump, Kid Rock and Dana White for a personal dinner at the White House. Since then, everyone has been dying to know what Maher will say. Not because we think he’s some sort of oracle worth following, but just because it’s interesting. Were any of your preconceived notions proven wrong? I don’t watch Bill’s show and I generally don’t find him all that funny or amusing, but I found this absolutely fascinating. Credit to Bill Maher for telling the truth and admitting that the man he met in person is nothing like the image he had of him in his mind. And I think that’s the most fascinating point, and something the entire country needs to experience. For 10+ years now, the MSM has lied to you. They have told you “orange man bad!” over and over and over. They even flat out lie and distort video footage to make it seem like President Trump said things he didn’t say. Anyone remember the “very fine people” hoax? If you’ve never actually seen this raw footage before, this is stunning. Check out the video below, and on the left you’ll see the MSM lies about President Trump and then played side-by-side you’ll see the actual footage and what President Trump actually said. The truth is that the media flat out lied and said Trump said something he didn’t say. He actually said the exact opposite of what they claimed he said. And they repeated that lie over and over and over. Because if you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Jake Tapper and the Fine People Hoax. You have it? Okay, I’m being told we have it. Thank you. Run it, please. President Trump Excuse me. To protest. And you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. Jake Tapper That was President Trump saying that very fine people were marching alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads and white supremacists. President Trump I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists. And you had people—and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalist. Backup here with captions added if you prefer: The “very fine people” hoax EXPOSED! And that, folks, is exactly what Bill Maher is waking up to. For years, Bill drank the MSM kool-aid. He called White Supremacists “very fine people”! And when Bill Maher finally meets President Trump in person he’s stunned that the man is so different than the public persona of him. Come on Bill, you’re a smart guy….what’s the reason for that? What’s the only difference? The only difference Bill, is that you met him face-to-face with no MSM twisting the facts and telling you what to believe and feeding you a distorted version of reality. It’s amazing what happens when you remove the lying MSM and you just take Trump at face value…almost everyone says “what’s not to like about this guy?” It’s why for over 10+ years, whenever I run into someone who hates Trump and all they can say is “orange man bad” I ask them one simple question: Have you ever actually watched a Rally speech before or attended one? I mean the full thing, raw feed, not CNN’s interpretation of it or small little clips, I mean the full thing. And in the rare times I can convince them to watch one, they almost always have the same exact experience as Bill Maher. Anyway, I thought this was excellent. Thank you Bill for telling the truth. We don’t expect you to suddenly start wearing the MAGA hat, all we wanted was just the truth and you delivered on that. Twelve days ago, I had dinner with President Trump, a dinner that my friend @KidRock set up because we share the belief that there has to be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away. And now, for what I know you’ve all been waiting for, I’d like to give you my book report on my visit to the White House. Okay, as you know, 12 days ago I had dinner with President Trump—a dinner that was set up by my friend Kid Rock—because we share a belief that there’s got to be something better than hurling insults from three thousand miles away. And let me first say that to all the people who treated this like it was some kind of summit meeting—you’re ridiculous. Like I was going to sign a treaty or something. I have power—I’m a fucking comedian—and he’s the most powerful leader in the world. I’m not the leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute. So okay, so meet up in person—maybe it’ll be different. First good sign, before I left for the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print out this list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president has said about me. Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy, fired like a dog, his show is dead, the sixth year… I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it. Which he did. Which he did with good humor. And I know, as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened… “Oh my God, Bill, are 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 fuck. So no, I didn’t go MAGA. And to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to. After we left the Oval office, he showed me the little room off the office—you know, the one where Clinton used to… Well, not anymore. That’s where they keep the merch now. And he gave me a bunch of hats—but he didn’t ask me to take a picture in one, which I appreciated. The guy I met is not the person who, the night before the dinner, shit-tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how he thought this dinner was a bad idea and what a deranged asshole I was. I read it and thought, oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house. But when I got there—that guy wasn’t living there. Now, does Trump want respect? Of course. Who doesn’t? My friend said to me, “What are you gonna wear to the White House?” I said, “I don’t know, but I’m not gonna dress like Zelensky, I’ll tell you that.” I’d never seen him laugh in public, but he does—including at himself. And it’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it. Example: In the Oval office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness, “You know the best thing about him? His hair.” I said “Well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing.” Waiting for the button next to the Diet Coke button to get pushed and I go through the trap door. I said to him at one point, “Mr. President, you know the dog? That’s unusual in the White House.” He said “Well, a lot of the presidents, they had a dog for political reasons.” I said “No. People love dogs. That’s what that is.” At one point we were walking through his—amazing, it is an amazing—tour of the whole house. And 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.” He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public. It doesn’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I’m just taking it as a positive that this person exists—because everything I’ve ever not liked about him was—I swear to God—absent, at least on this night, with this guy. Bob, Kid Rock, told me the night before—he said, “If you want to get a word in edgewise, you’re going to have to cut him off. He’ll just go on.” I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected—people who don’t look you in the eye, people who don’t really listen because they just want to get to their next thing, people whose response to things you say just doesn’t track. Like, what? And he mostly steered the conversation to “What do you think about this?” I know your mind is blown. So is mine. There were so many moments when I hit him with a joke or contradicted something—and no problem. At dinner, he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran in a very genuine, “Hey, I think you’re a smart guy, I want your opinion” sort of way. And I said “Well, obviously you’re privy to things about it and I’m not. But for what it’s worth, I thought the Obama deal was worth letting play out because we made Iran destroy 98 percent of the uranium, and they were 15 years away from a bomb.” And then I said to him “But we got rid of that. You got rid of that.” He didn’t get mad or call me a left-wing lunatic. I told him I thought parts of his plan for Gaza were wacky, but that I had supported him in the idea that Gaza could be Dubai instead of hell. I told him he was wrong when he tweeted the night before that I was critical of all things Trump. Not true. Moving Israel’s embassy to Jerusalem? Loved it. The border did need to be controlled. I’m glad the cops are getting their morale back. Biological men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports. Europe should pay for their defense. And of course it makes sense that Arab countries should take in Arab refugees—like the million Syrians who wound up in Germany when Saudi Arabia took none. He said to me, “You’re right, they took none.” I said “Well, you should remind your boyfriend in Saudi Arabia that the next time you see him.” I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him. And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. Me, I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days. He was even okay when I checked him on the orangutan. Lost it, you know? He said to Dana White, “You know, Bill said my father was an orangutan and I really love my father.” And I said “Well, Mr. President, I did that because I didn’t like what you were doing regarding Obama’s birth origins. I thought that was low.” Again, no anger. Just a little smile, as if to say “Yeah, I get it.” The most surreal part of the whole night was when I got home. I flew back right after the dinner and I’m in bed watching 60 Minutes from the night before. And there’s Trump in one of their stories, standing at a podium in a room that looked to me like one of the rooms and places we’d just been in. And he’s ranting—“Disgusting! You’re a terrible person!” What happened to Glinda the Good Witch? And why can’t we get the guy I met to be the public guy? And I’m not saying it’s our responsibility to do that. It’s not. I’m just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours. I went into the mine—and that’s what’s down there. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there. It’s just not as fucked up as I thought it was. And I have no illusions, now that I’m back to work at my job, that he might start a new list. But I also think he now understands I have a job to do or at least he did on this night—because he said to me early on that he’d seen our last episode, which was the Friday before this dinner. And he said “I thought maybe you’d be nice, but you hit me really hard.” “Oh, I did. Because I’m not going to pull my punches that presidents get to propose a third term for themselves.” He understood that—and without animus. That doesn’t mean he’s not going to try to do it… At one point I said to him, “You’re scaring people. Do you really want to be scaring your own citizens so much?” And I know now you’re all saying, “And what did he say to that?” So MAGA fans, don’t worry. Your boy gave me nothing. Hats, and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and accept me as a possible friend—even though I’m not MAGA. My favorite part of the whole night was—we were standing in the blowjob room… And he said “You know, I’ve heard from a lot of people who really like that we’re having this dinner. Not all, but a lot.” And I said “Same. A lot of people told me they loved it—but not all.” The people who don’t even want us to talk—we don’t like you. Writing the same editorial for the 1,000,000th time and making 25-hour speeches into the wind? He takes the piss out of everybody else—and we can hold ours. You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured—and why he isn’t that in other settings, I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. Backup video here with captions added if you prefer: Bill Maher Reveals The Truth About His Dinner With Trump: “A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House”
