Posted on 04/13/2025 8:26:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
HBO host Bill Maher opened his show on Friday by delivering a monologue on the details of his recent meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Read the full transcript below.
"So meet up in person, maybe it'll be different," Maher described meeting with Trump. "Spoiler alert, it was. First good sign, before I left for the capital, I had my staff collect and print out this list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president said about me. Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy. Really a dumb guy, fired like a dog, his show is dead. I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it, which he did.
"Which he did, with good humor," Maher said as he displayed the signed copy. "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 f*ck."
"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. That's just how it went down. Make of it what you will. Me? I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days. He was even OK when I checked him on the orangutan lawsuit. He was. I know."
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I bet Bill Maher gets lots of leftist hate over this.
You have to be major league brain washed to think Trump would be anything less than gracious.
Trump doesn’t waste one unnecessary minute obsessing over or lashing out at his political detractors.
When they visibly or otherwise notably withdraw from the fight, he won’t be seen to perpetuate the conflict.
Maher is thoughtful and must have known this would have happened.
Bill Maher gets a lot of criticism from conservatives, and rightly so.
But he occasionally says reasonable things to people who would not otherwise hear them. For I’m sure there’s not a single Freeper or MAGA guy in his audience.
It could be a “blind squirrel” kind of thing with Maher. Or maybe he’s seen just a bit of light. Either way, I hope he keeps it up.
There is no downside to Trump meeting with people like Maher. Worst case, they say nasty things about him which they would do regardless. But then you can get this kind of outcome...
Trump is a genius!
I HATED him....and still dislike him a whole lot.
But his whole speech about the President was pretty positive.
His list of thigns he did agree with the president about made him sound like a blue state almost sensible centrist leaning republican
He very pro Israel and said the border needed fixing, agreed wih the President on some other things.
He’s still be a jerk.
But hes’ rich enough and old enough now to lose a bunch of fans and be fine.
He thinks DEI has gone too far...but he should have said it should have NEVER existed to begin with.
He wishes the president he saw in person was like that on TV.
He should know better..no one acts exactly how they are in real life when they are on TV.
And Trump has reasons for saying the things he does live.
Mabe the democratic party is leaving him.
He also thinks born males in women’s sports is absurd
Not sure how he can stay a dem when he doesnt’ agree with their most important “issues.”
but he will
Does Bill realize that Hillary started that whole thing?
The guy has spent his entire life in the New York / Los Angeles entertainment industry bubble. It’s a wonder he can think at all after that.
So woke people, you can think your way out of it. Well... some of you can.
Liberals don’t remember anything. History is an inconvenience.
I’m nearly convinced that Bill Maher is the only reason why the Democrat party is polling slightly higher than Congress.
I don’t want to have him say reasonable and rational things; they’re life rings in the ocean of stupidity the Democrats have wrecked their ship in.
That is great. It only took him 10 years and a personal invitation to the White House
I saw two clips as they keep getting shoved at me from all angles. I don’t give a crap what this foul mouthed hater says about anything much less jumping in six months after the obvious landslide election his noticing there could be a future with treating Trump and his supporters better than with disdain
The audience roars with laughter like trained animals at everything Maher says. Everything he utters out of his profanity filled mouth the audience roars with delight and agreement
It is so ugly I had to shut it off. Twice
He is hateful
Bill Maher does what works best for Bill Mahers personal interests. Thats as deep as it goes with him.
Its always been this way, always will be. Hes just realized some of liberal stuff is too out there to keep following, and hes safer to be more critical of them because they aren’t very effective at the moment.
Bill Maher thinks he’s “centrist-minded”? Now that’s funny!
“Bill Maher does what works best for Bill Mahers personal interests. Thats as deep as it goes with him.”
Period
Trump does seem to be an odd duck in some ways.
He can be pretty ruthless in competition. Yet, magnanimous in victory, doesn’t often hold grudges and often quite generous and compassionate.
Not a common combination.
, he showed me the little room off the office, you know, the one where Clinton used to ... the blow job room, OK? Well, not anymore. That’s where they keep the merch now.
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