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RT_Fanatic

(243 posts)
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 08:54 AM Apr 2025

I was never a fan of Bill Maher, but wtf is this?

I don’t know how to take this. AFAIAC, Maher has always been a little too kind and forgiving of Felon47 and his Nazi buddies. So is he lying, or did Felon47 just put on a show, playing good boy so Bill would say nice things about him?

https://www.aol.com/bill-maher-praises-president-trump-024647659.html

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I was never a fan of Bill Maher, but wtf is this? (Original Post) RT_Fanatic Apr 2025 OP
I think Maher's been hitting the bong a little too hard lately. sop Apr 2025 #1
If you're surprised by Maher blow-jobbing trump, you haven't been paying attention in recent years. Paladin Apr 2025 #2
,Not very likely, Maher fans are SocialDemocrat61 Apr 2025 #9
I've heard Ted Bundy was very charming too.nt Phoenix61 Apr 2025 #3
He helped wash dishes! Turbineguy Apr 2025 #5
Maher is a quisling. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #4
But the rapist is soooooooo nice!! Not fake at all! He even signed my stuff!! chowder66 Apr 2025 #6
Bill Maher ceased to be funny a very long time ago LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #7
He doesn't want to... lame54 Apr 2025 #8
Transcript of what Maher said here: highplainsdem Apr 2025 #10
Maher was really in over his head there misanthrope Apr 2025 #11
Thanks very much for this! nt LAS14 Apr 2025 #12
He got conned by a con artist. He's not as smart as he thinks he is. Crunchy Frog Apr 2025 #13
He's never been as smart as he thinks SocialDemocrat61 Apr 2025 #15
He's one of the worst interviewers as well. AStern Apr 2025 #16
This and that. LAS14 Apr 2025 #14
so I turned on CNN and heard his monologue ecstatic Apr 2025 #17
"...maher's advice would be a whole lot better than bannon or loomer's." Paladin Apr 2025 #18
White Male Privilege Grievance Society LessAspin Apr 2025 #19
He's an opportunist. Xolodno Apr 2025 #20
Fuck Maher and his centrist BS! Emile Apr 2025 #21
Some of us stopped listening to anything Bill Maher had to say in 2016 LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #22

sop

(17,407 posts)
1. I think Maher's been hitting the bong a little too hard lately.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:06 AM
Apr 2025

I'm sure Hitler was also quite "gracious" and "not fake" with dinner guests at the Berghof...while planning the blitzkrieg and final solution.

Paladin

(32,276 posts)
2. If you're surprised by Maher blow-jobbing trump, you haven't been paying attention in recent years.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:06 AM
Apr 2025

I trust that you DU'ers who still defend Maher will take all this into account---maybe quit supporting Maher's TV ratings, for starters...

Scrivener7

(58,295 posts)
4. Maher is a quisling.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:15 AM
Apr 2025

Quislings were the people who sided with Nazi invaders for their own gain.

chowder66

(11,836 posts)
6. But the rapist is soooooooo nice!! Not fake at all! He even signed my stuff!!
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 12:59 PM
Apr 2025

FUUUUUUUCKKKKKK BILL.

So everything shitty the Orange Pretender has done for decades (most of which has been documented and even prosecuted) is forgiven because he spent a few hours with him?

Why does Maher think people do business with him, marry him or have sex with him? It's because he's charismatic enough to lure them in
until he starts abusing them.

Bill Maher's grudge over political correctness has eaten his brain.

misanthrope

(9,371 posts)
11. Maher was really in over his head there
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 04:38 PM
Apr 2025

Last edited Sat Apr 12, 2025, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)

You would think a guy who had lived in the midst of the entertainment industry as long as Maher has would be cannier about dealing with narcissists than he apparently is. I knew Maher's critical thought capacities were compromised to a degree by some of the things he has said in the past, but I had no idea.

How did science educator Cara Santa Maria date this dude?

LAS14

(15,456 posts)
14. This and that.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 06:55 PM
Apr 2025
"What I'm gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it,"

Maher conceded the Trump he met on March 31 was different from the persona he sees on TV. But he also acknowledged, "It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage."

He later added, "Why can't we get the guy I met to be the public guy?"


Thanks to HighPlainsDem for the link in reply #10.

1 - I like getting information about the enemy. It's valuable to know Trump can play the normal guy in private.

2 - I appreciate unfiltered info like Maher was giving in his report.

3 - I'm not particularly happy that Maher normalized Trump.

ecstatic

(35,012 posts)
17. so I turned on CNN and heard his monologue
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 07:27 PM
Apr 2025

What a clown! Everything he's saying has already been confirmed by others, including Lawrence O'donnell. trump kissed LO's ass when they met.

trump is DEEPLY insecure and knows how to turn on the charm and conduct himself in one on one meetings. It doesn't matter what he does when pandering to you privately if his public actions are harming people. I guess Maher is now too old and senile / narcissistic to realize that. trump's reckless actions will kill millions of people.

Also, the contempt that maher now shows towards the people who supported him for decades is really unfortunate. When maga-teaparty types canceled him after 911, who had his back?

I gave up on his show years ago, but I truly hope he's playing 10-d chess here. A way to force his way into the circle of clowns that trump depends on for advice. I will admit that maher's advice would be a whole lot better than bannon or loomer's.

Paladin

(32,276 posts)
18. "...maher's advice would be a whole lot better than bannon or loomer's."
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 07:45 PM
Apr 2025

Not bloody likely.

LessAspin

(1,787 posts)
19. White Male Privilege Grievance Society
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 07:54 PM
Apr 2025

Bill Maher has always had one foot in the MAGA Club..

BTW don't overanalyze Maher prostituting himself to Trump

Maher works for the same fascists at Warner Bros Discovery who took over and corrupted CNN

I've known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with no real principles then and he remains so

This is so he can keep his HBO show

Keith Olbermann

BTW don't overanalyze Maher prostituting himself to Trump

Maher works for the same fascists at Warner Bros Discovery who took over and corrupted CNN

I've known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with no real principles then and he remains so

This is so he can keep his HBO show

Keith Olbermann (@olbermann.bsky.social) 2025-04-12T15:34:07.732Z


Xolodno

(7,313 posts)
20. He's an opportunist.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 07:58 PM
Apr 2025

He fawned over Newsom not too long ago. If he thinks your ass will be connected to a chair with power in the future, he'll kiss it.

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