Posted on 04/02/2025 8:12:12 AM PDT by Twotone
On Tuesday, Kid Rock shared details of President Donald Trump’s meeting with liberal comedian Bill Maher, declaring that “everybody’s mind was kind of blown.”
The rock star, who got to witness 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 credited Kid Rock with brokering the get-together on Monday.
“I went on Bill’s show, I went on his podcast and I said, ‘Man, you know, nothing happens if people don’t break bread together and meet face-to-face.’ 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,” the rock star said.
“Everyone was so surprised. It was so pleasant,” Kid Rock added. “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’ve had Biden, Clinton, Obama — everybody — he had never been to the White House.”
But, Kid Rock said, Trump was “gracious” and gave them a tour of the White House.
“He took us up to the private residence. We saw the Gettysburg Address in the Lincoln Bedroom,” he continued. “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.”
Kid Rock said they discussed “ending wokeness” and “securing the border.” He noted that Trump asked Maher about policy on Iran and Israel, and remarked, “It blew my mind. I was very proud.”
“Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones asked, “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,” to which Kid Rock responded in the affirmative.
“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’s so funny, so engaging, he’s so smart. And absolutely, Bill even said to me — after that he goes, ‘Wow, that was — ‘ you know, everybody’s mind was kind of blown.”
Kid Rock went on to say: “The president called me late last night. Everyone was a little suspect about going into this. Even the president [said to me], like, ‘What have you got me doing?’ 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.”
Its good that Kid Rock wants to see more civility but liberals don’t care about that. They want CONTROL. That, not civility or rational debate, is what liberalism is fundamentally all about.
We want freedom, they want control. That’s a very wide gap.
Thats a step in the right direction. Now that Maher has seen Trump up close and personal, what message does good ol’ Bill bring back to his people?
Everybody who meets PJDT in person always has the same comments: he is funny, gracious, kind, interested in me as a person, and he’s wicked smart.
I still don’t know what “dishes” means in the headline, though.
Many of Bill Maher’s core fans will rip him to pieces if he says anything favorable about Trump. It will be a micro-aggression. Control is their God.
Rats, “civility, shmivility, gimme the effin reins!”
To “Dish” is to provide inside info/gossip on something
I don't know if Maher has had a show since that meeting, or what he said about Trump if he did. However, to piggyback off something someone else in the thread said....
Everybody who meets PJDT in person always has the same comments: he is funny, gracious, kind, interested in me as a person, and he’s wicked smart.
My guess is that Maher may well say a lot of those positive things about what Trump is like in person, and then say "I still don't like a ton of what he says and does, and believe a lot of his actions are nuts. That hasn't changed."
I personally could not care less what a political leader is like in private, and in person. It's irrelevant to me because I don't have (and don't want) any kind of a personal relationship with them. Bill Clinton apparently is a great guy in person but that didn't sway me one iota on any of his policies. I suspect Maher will comes out and say something similar.
I believe he said he would comment on the meeting April 11th. Said no one would believe him if he commented on April 1st.
So President Trump thought when he sat down with Bob Woodward .. and other libs.
Exactly.
As in “serving up” something.
Thanks.
We will never win the hard left. But if we move the needle five points among middle of the road people, and basically prove that we aren’t the way the left characterizes us, that could be enormous. The left is not monolithic. There is a hard core maybe 30% of the electorate. But there is a vast swath in the middle that as crazy as it seems, do not pay attention to politics except superficially.
If they turn on the Bill Maher show someday, and he describes meeting Trump, and has a few nice things to say, that is a massive victory.
Did they try to pass a doobie around?
I know Trump don’t play dat!
“If they turn on the Bill Maher show someday, and he describes meeting Trump, and has a few nice things to say, that is a massive victory.”
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That’s certainly true but the Left in general has a strong desire for control (which is to say they want a massive government to enable that) and conservatives stand in their way so there’s never going to be much in the way of a rapprochement with the Left IMO.
To you point, not all Lefties are insane radicals, but most of them are still very hard to reason with. They all believe in the utopian promises of big government and don’t like or trust anyone who doesn’t.
I think most in Maher fan base will hate him saying anything positive about Trump, personality and/or policies. That should cause Maher to rethink which side he is on, but it won’t.
If it were just the fact that they met, I'd agree, but Maher has been watching the DNC move further and further left for a while now. He's spoken out about trans madness and Islamic terrorism, and been treated badly by the left each time. Like Jon Stewart, like Ana Kasperian, I think Maher is starting to realize that if today's left is the Official Left, he's no longer on the left. He's in the middle.
Now, once you're in the middle, that's when you start to look around you and see who is willing to talk and who is screaming at you to shut up.
“Dishes” is short for “dishes out” or “serves” spoken words to someone, and is used to mean “revealing” or “spewing” semi-private news or opinion.
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