Bill Maher stuns ‘Real Time’ crowd: ‘You’re not going to drag me into Trump derangement syndrome’
Trump derangement syndrome is alive and well among liberals, but Bill Maher is refusing to let the ailment get the best of him, as it has so many others.
In a recent segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he made this incredibly clear.
“He called for a military tribunal against her,” panelist John Heilemann said of Trump’s recent comments about Liz Cheney. “He might not do it, but you don’t want to normalize the notion that that’s the kind of language that we want to have.”
“This is the problem with, I’m sorry, the far left, is that you’re not going to drag me into Trump derangement syndrome. It’s not deranged to be upset and worried about the real things. Like, he could be a fascist,” Maher responded.
“But if you’re going to think I’m going to chase every rabbit down the hole for the next four years, you’re wrong. I’m not going to,” he continued. “I did this once; I’m not going to do it again.”
“That’s who he is. If he talks about Arnold Palmer’s **** or he says a bad word or says something that everybody thinks like ‘There are s***hole countries,' I’m not going to lose my s*** about it. I’m just not, ‘cause that is deranged,” he added.
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is impressed to say the least.
“Who knows where Bill will end up years from now? Maybe he never gets where we all would want him to be electorally, and okay, so be it, but he’s saying it,” Rubin says.
“He’s saying, ‘I will not behave the way I behaved last time,’ which was, ‘I was going to hate him and undermine him no matter what,’” he adds.
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'Just don't lie to me': Bill Maher blasts media's 'firing squad' hoax, warns Biden's 'garbage' gaffe will hurt Democrats
Bill Maher delved into the hot-button election topics of President Joe Biden's "garbage" comment, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico, and the legacy media's deception about former President Donald Trump's chickenhawk remarks regarding Liz Cheney.
On Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the liberal talk show host defended Hinchcliffe following the controversy over the insult comic's joke that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” delivered during Trump's recent rally at Madison Square Garden.
'Just don't lie to me. I don't like Donald Trump. Don't lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad.'
Maher began, "Well, it was insulting. But look, I have to defend my profession. I’m a comic; I’m a free speech [supporter]. ... But this guy’s an insult comic. Why he’s at this particular [event], it’s like bringing cocaine to a funeral.”
During his discussion with guests Tim Miller from the Bulwark and "The Fifth Column" podcast co-host Michael Moynihan, Maher asked, "Did the Democrats look weak because they can't take a joke? Because I think that's another Achilles' heel that they have."
“What the Trump people did at this rally — it’s so Trump — they hired an insult comic,” Maher stated. “Really, he went up there and did very insulting things. I’d never heard of him, but this is his act he does all the time. And he told a really demeaning joke about Puerto Rico. ... It didn’t even go over with the Trump crowd. They said, ‘Look, we didn’t come here to hear vicious remarks from an insult comic. We came here to hear it from the candidate.'”
Maher claimed that Republicans would have had a much different reaction if he attempted a similar joke.
“They are just as big snowflakes, they are. Because if I did that joke in reverse and instead of Puerto Rico said Staten Island, they would have had a s**t fit," Maher contended. "They would have found that completely unacceptable."
As Blaze News previously reported, Hinchcliffe has refused to bend the knee for his joke despite the overwhelming fury about the quip.
Maher slammed President Biden for calling Trump supporters "garbage" and compared him to New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who dropped an easy fly ball in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"I think it's a bigger gaffe than people think," Maher said. "It's so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end — he's like Aaron Judge in Game 6. He just f***ing muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing and blew the whole [game]."
Maher declared Biden's insult to be far worse than Hillary Clinton's disastrous 2016 smear of Trump supporters as "deplorables."
"Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It's like ‘deplorables’ times ten," Maher noted.
Moynihan added that former President Barack Obama proclaimed that rural working-class Americans are "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion" while on the campaign trail in 2008.
He then mocked the media for attempting to cover for Biden by asserting there was an apostrophe that they claimed altered the sitting president's comment.
Moynihan said Trump voters feel like: "The media hates you. The elites hate you. They think that you're garbage."
He added that "any sort of hint of that" is not a "net positive for Democrats."
Miller chimed in by saying that "having the elderly president give a marble-mouthed answer" was "dumb" but didn't think it would hurt the Kamala Harris campaign significantly.
Maher blasted Biden over his inability to "shut the f*** up."
"In fairness, he was on a video call, and he thought he was just yelling at the TV," Maher joked.
Also during this week's "Real Time with Bill Maher," the HBO host skewered the media for intentionally misrepresenting Trump's recent comments about Liz Cheney.
"I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney," Maher stated. "And this is what I really don't like about the media — no, he didn't. You don't have to move me to not like Donald Trump more than I already [don't]."
Maher continued, "He's criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney's daughter."
Maher read Trump's actual quote, "She’s a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let's see how she feels about it. You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying, ‘Oh gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'"
Maher compared Trump to anti-war hippies.
Maher noted, "Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. This is ‘Fortunate Son’ the song. It's like, you know what? It's very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die."
He declared, "Just don't lie to me. I don't like Donald Trump. Don't lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that, by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it, not the stupid part, again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [war]."
Moynihan pointed out that Trump did say Cheney would be given a weapon, "which is not typically something you do to have someone executed."
Even Trump adversary Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) reprimanded the media's deceptive coverage as "ridiculous, absurd and counterproductive."
Cheney – the former Republican representative from Wyoming – has been a vocal supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.
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Megyn Kelly obliterates Bill Maher’s Trump = fascist argument so perfectly, he just changes the subject – ‘Let’s get off this’
Megyn Kelly was recently invited on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and let’s just say, their exchange was tense. Not all that surprising when you consider both their personalities and their political stances.
Dave Rubin, although he disagrees with many of Maher’s arguments, says that there’s one area where the television host deserves some credit: “He was willing to [have Megyn on the show] right before the election.”
However, the rest of the credit goes to Kelly for “completely dismantling Bill's argument that Trump is a fascist.”
When Maher brought up “the things [Trump] has been saying and all the people in his administration who said he's a fascist, he wants to be a fascist, he talks like a fascist,” Kelly annihilated his argument with ease.
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“I don’t care about all that,” she retorted. “They've been saying that about Trump for years; they've been saying that about Republican candidates for years.”
“If you are at all center or center right, you are used to having your candidate of choice completely demonized, whether it’s the f-word, the r-word, the misogynist word,” she continued, pointing to the way Mitt Romney was deemed “a raging sexist” and John McCain “a raging racist” by the left.
“We no longer are listening to them. Trump has incendiary rhetoric — there's no question — but we have four years to judge him by, and the country was going pretty well when Trump was in there, unlike the four years we've had under these two,” she explained.
When Maher brought up the economy that “Trump inherited” from Barack Obama, Kelly fired back, “So Trump has Obama to thank for his economy, but Biden can’t thank Trump for anything?”
“Let’s get off this because it’s not really what I want to get to,” Maher responded.
“Bill, with all due respect, there’s probably a reason you don’t want to get to it,” says Dave. “She dismantled it” and “showed the hypocrisy.”
“Lefties generally don't want to have any level of debate with people on the right anymore because ... the arguments on the right, generally speaking, are much more cogent and obvious,” he adds.
To hear Kelly obliterate Maher’s argument on the border and illegal immigration, watch the clip above.
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‘That’s just the data’: Scientist obliterates Bill Maher’s climate change narrative
Bill Maher may commonly find himself as the voice of reason among his fellow liberals — but on a recent segment of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” one of his guests took that position instead.
While Maher repeated media talking points regarding the death of the Great Barrier Reef, his guest, Bjørn Lomborg, dismantled his argument with ease.
“What will the ocean look like? I mean, I’m not talking about oceans rising, I’m talking about oceans dying — and the world can’t live with dead oceans. And it seems like they’re in bad shape, between all the plastic in them, they’re overfished,” Maher tells Lomborg.
“Coral reefs, I know you’ve talked about, ‘Oh, that’s exaggerated.’ Tell me about why you think the coral reef problem is exaggerated,” he added.
Despite Maher’s confidence in his lead-up, Lomborg was ready for it.
“That’s just the data,” he retorted. “Remember, by the end of the century, the U.N. estimates the average person on the planet will be 450% as rich as he or she is today. So that means instead of being 450% as rich, we will feel like we’re only 435% as rich.”
“Yes, that’s a problem, no, it’s not the end of the world,” he continued, before making his point about the coral reef. “The guys who do the data every year on the coral reef since 1986 have been assessing what is the total outcome of how good does the coral reef look.”
“In 2009 to 2012, we thought it was terrible. It was really dramatic. The Guardian wrote the obituary for the Great Barrier Reef. And the point I’ve just been making is the last three years, they’ve been at the highest level, the most coral reef we’ve ever seen in those areas,” Lomborg explained.
“Most of the challenge comes from overfishing, from industrial pollution, from sea runoff, and those are the things we should fix. But we’re not being well-informed if we’re being told this is because of climate change, so we’ve got to change our entire infrastructure on our global economy in order to save the oceans, when it’s not actually what’s going to happen,” he finished.
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is on the same page.
“If you don’t give AOC the power to fix the climate, that’s one of the things that they would love to cancel everybody for and keep liberals in a constant state of hysteria,” Rubin says.
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PROOF that New York Times 'conservative' voice Bret Stephens is a phony
On a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” guests Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC and Bret Stephens, who Dave Rubin says is the “New York Times’ quote unquote conservative but will not support Trump,” sparred over Kamala Harris’ complete avoidance of interviews and wishy-washy positions on policy.
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“If I’m an undecided voter, I’m never going to vote for Trump, but I’m not sure I want to vote for Kamala, and my fear is that she doesn’t really have a very good command of what she wants to do as president,” said Stephens, adding that it would be “great for her to sit down with [Maher] or George Stephanopoulos or Stephanie.”
“As if she’d sit down with me,” Maher scoffed as the audience howled in laughter.
“George W. Bush 25 years ago was asked if he could name the president of Pakistan and other people. He had no idea, and people said this guy has no command of foreign policy, and it turned out to be a prescient set of questions. It’s not too much to ask Kamala, say, are you for a Palestinian state if Hamas is going to run that state?” Stephens continued.
“Okay, and let’s say you don’t like her answer. Are you going to vote for Donald Trump? Kamala Harris is not running for perfect; she’s running against Trump. We have two choices, and so there are some things you might not know her answer to. And in 2024, unlike 2016, for a lot of the American people, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is, and the kind of threat he is to democracy,” Ruhle said.
“The problem that a lot of people have with Kamala is we don't know her answer to anything,” Stephens countered.
“But you know [Trump’s] answer to everything!” Ruhle fired back.
“And that's why I would never vote for him and people shouldn't vote for him, but people also are expected to have some idea of what the program is of the person you're supposed to vote for,” Stephens concluded.
Dave and special co-host Clay Travis laugh at the idea that Stephens is labeled as “conservative.”
“He will not vote for Trump under any circumstances but in essence could vote for [Kamala],” says Dave, asking, “How is it possible you could be remotely conservative, believe in capitalism, believe that boys and girls are different, believe that you should have a border ... and perhaps vote for Kamala Harris?”
“I don’t even understand what the fear of Trump is,” says Travis, who’s interacted with Trump on multiple occasions. “The idea that he is Hitler is the most ridiculously absurd argument ever. ... He wants to have a more secure border; he wants lower crime; he wants to avoid war all around the world and keep our soldiers safe.”
“And there's a track record of him doing it,” adds Dave.
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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