Following their seemingly cordial dinner at the White House in April 2025 — arranged by Trump and Maher’s mutual friend, Kid Rock — the president took to Truth Social last month to blast the dinner with Maher as a “total waste of time.”
During his “new rule” segment at the end of Friday’s show, the “Real Time” host said, “Someone has to help Donald Trump understand that I don’t suffer from Trump derangement syndrome. He suffers from Bill Maher derangement syndrome.
While Maher has been vocal about touting the president’s wins, the comedian noted that he has “every right” to criticize things that don’t match his “idea of success.”
“ICE? Yeah, I’m glad you got rid of stone-cold criminals, but no one wanted the sadism and stupidity that went along with it. DOGE? A complete disaster. People died for no reason and it cut no government waste. Coal is not beautiful or clean. Criminalizing dissent is wrong and so is the juvenile trolling and suing people into silence,” he argued.
“Don, there are things that you do that we, not just me, but we, I mean even the people who are too scared to talk to you straight, just don’t get about you. Taking the side of autocrats instead of democratic allies around the world? Who hates Canada? And wind? You hate the wind?”
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