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Bill Maher says Trump ‘yells’ at him via text for remaining a part of ‘lunatic left’ after their White House dinner
New York Post ^ | Feb. 16, 2026 | Taylor Herzlich

Posted on 02/16/2026 1:46:44 PM PST by nickcarraway

Bill Maher told CNN that President Trump routinely “yells” at him via text for remaining a part of the “lunatic left” following their buddy-buddy dinner at the White House last year.

The host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” – who faced heated backlash from leftist viewers for dining with the president last April – laughed when CNN’s Elex Michaelson asked about his relationship with Trump in an interview posted to YouTube Saturday.

When asked whether Trump texts him, Maher exclaimed: “Yes, yelling at me!”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; dinner; left; trump; yellsathimviatext
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1 posted on 02/16/2026 1:46:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Trump knows Maher likes his ego stroked as someone important.

Classic trump giving him what he needs trying to wake Maher up.


2 posted on 02/16/2026 1:48:38 PM PST by Skwor
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To: nickcarraway

I believe that. How many old men don’t yell at the TV?


3 posted on 02/16/2026 1:50:53 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Why is Bill Maher “a thing”?


4 posted on 02/16/2026 1:52:30 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: jroehl

Mahre has a sharp wit. He can sting and leave his opponents defenseless so he throws us a bone from time to time.


5 posted on 02/16/2026 1:55:53 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: nickcarraway

If Bill’s still supporting the democrats that are doing nothing but ripping us off then there’s something very wrong with him. He’s been shown more than enough evidence to know this is true.


6 posted on 02/16/2026 1:57:41 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; Bullish

About a year ago I listened to the Joe Rogan podcast when he had Maher on.

After around 20 minutes I had to turn it off.

He started out pretty rational but as soon as the subject moved to DJT he turned in to the unhinged nasty liberal we all suspect he is.

Don’t let that little weasel fool you, he’s as hateful and despicable as the rest of ‘em.....if not more even.


7 posted on 02/16/2026 2:05:03 PM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: nickcarraway

The break between Musk and Trump was apparently planned. When Musk hinted about Epstein and Trump it goaded them into releasing the files. The trap worked. Perhaps something similar going on with Maher


8 posted on 02/16/2026 2:06:07 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s only yelling when the CAPS LOCK is on


9 posted on 02/16/2026 2:08:24 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Nateman
The break between Musk and Trump was apparently planned. When Musk hinted about Epstein and Trump it goaded them into releasing the files. The trap worked. Perhaps something similar going on with Maher

What I think is happening is that Maher is no longer respected in leftist circles. Therefore, Trump is deliberately criticizing Maher in public to get leftists liking him again. Then, Maher can freely criticize leftist stuff again without suffering much rebuke. It other words, 4D chess moves.
10 posted on 02/16/2026 2:11:07 PM PST by salmon76 ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." (Eccl 10:2))
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To: 9YearLurker; nickcarraway

“How many old men don’t yell at the TV?”

I don’t. I haven’t yelled at the TV since I turned it off a decade ago. And I feel so much better!

Why people continue subjecting themselves to the vile trash that constantly aggravates them is beyond me.

Try it - you’ll like it!


11 posted on 02/16/2026 2:12:42 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: salmon76

I think Maher is nasty and Trump is pointing it out. He invited himself in for nothing other than to come out and gossip. Just nasty.


12 posted on 02/16/2026 2:21:16 PM PST by stanne
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To: nickcarraway

Bill wants to keep his job, so he has to tow the liberal line most of the time.


13 posted on 02/16/2026 2:22:58 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s because Democrat Bill Maher IS
a part of the “LUNATIC LEFT”


14 posted on 02/16/2026 2:26:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: aquila48

Haven’t had or watched a TV for decades. But good for you. Pretty much by definition you can’t yell at the TV if you don’t have one, and of course Trump is a big TV guy.


15 posted on 02/16/2026 2:54:18 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway
Unlike 99% of America's leftists Bill Maher occasionally gets it right.
16 posted on 02/16/2026 2:56:32 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe I’m one of the few people on here who likes to listen to Maher. He just did a podcast interview with Adam Carolla that was pretty good. Does he have some uninformed, knee-jerk opinions about Trump? Most definitely yes. But he is an old school Democrat who has not moved his opinion since the 1990s. That makes him a “conservative” in the eyes of the Woke Left. The irony is that Maher and Trump probalby had very similar political opinions in the 1990s and voted the same way. They both were shoved right by the Woke Left.


17 posted on 02/16/2026 3:02:29 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: jroehl

Maher is a legend only in his own mind.


18 posted on 02/16/2026 3:06:28 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: 9YearLurker

None of the ones I know do-TV is not the center of their universe. Where do you live that they do?...


19 posted on 02/16/2026 3:18:46 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: jroehl

Maher is frequently quite funny

(and he can make fun of the lefties too)


20 posted on 02/16/2026 3:19:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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