Bill Maher didn’t know what to expect when he recently sat down with President Donald J. Trump at the White House but came away from the meeting with a new perspective on a man whom he has relentlessly savaged for years.
The comic shared details of the experience with his audience on Friday’s edition of “Real Time With Bill Maher” on HBO, dishing that the Trump he saw in private was much different than the man on television whose every word is spun and distorted by the corrupt media to portray him in the worst possible way.
“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f**ked up, but it’s not as f**ked up as I thought it was,” Maher said.
Twelve days ago, I had dinner with President Trump, a dinner that my friend @KidRock set up because we share the belief that there has to be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away. pic.twitter.com/KE2t2eyBkI
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 12, 2025
“As you know, 12 days ago I had dinner with President Trump, a dinner that was set up by my friend Kid Rock. Because we share a belief: That there’s gotta be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away,” Maher explained.
“He laughs, including at himself. It’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian, I know a fake laugh when I hear one. I thank you for them,” he said. “I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who were much less connected. People who don’t look you in the eye, people who don’t really listen. None of that with him.”
“You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured,” the comic said. “And why isn’t that in other settings- I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”
Maher scoffed at “ridiculous” critics who suggested that the meeting, which was brokered by Kid Rock, a mutual friend of the two men, was “some kind of summit.”
“I have no power. I’m a f**king comedian, and he’s the most powerful leader in the world,” he said. “I’m not the leader of anything, except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute.”
Maher also confronted the president with a printed list of insults that he’s used to describe him, which Trump autographed with “good humor.”
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened,” Maher said, assuring his fans that he “didn’t go MAGA. And to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to.”
The old school liberal also praised Trump for being “much more self-aware than he lets on in public,” sharing that when the 2020 election came up while he was being shown around the White House the president “didn’t get mad” and used the word “lost” to describe the results.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2025
“Look, I get it. It doesn’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I’m just taking as a positive that this person exists. Because everything I’ve ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent at least on this night with this guy,” he told the audience, many of whom likely came away disappointed.
“I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,” Maher said. “And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump. That’s just how it went down. Make of it what you will. Me? I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.”
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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.
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