‘It’s kind of a Nixon to China thing’

Bill Maher is defending plans to have dinner with President Trump at the White House, despite the inevitable leftist meltdown.

Appearing on Chris Cuomo’s podcast “The Chris Cuomo Project,” Maher compared his upcoming White House dinner with Richard Nixon’s “healing” visit to China in 1972. Although, Maher claims not to have any delusions about single-handedly “healing” a divided nation.

“So Kid Rock makes it happen,” Cuomo began, citing the recent sit-down with Maher where the musician floated dinner at the White House with the notorious Trump-basher. “What do you think has been the response so far? What do think it will be and why are you doing it? Which I’m totally for by the way, and I love it.”

.@kidrock tells me his plan to start to unite our country again.

“At the end of the month I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner.” pic.twitter.com/aM6ea8k4LN

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 7, 2025

Cuomo then joked if Maher was doing the dinner on a “dare.”

“Not a dare. No, just like, maybe this is a beginning to heal America. Now, I don’t have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America, I can’t. Okay, let’s get that clear. I’m not going to be healing America. But if two guys who’ve been at each other for so long — I mean, it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing,” Maher explained before touting his “credentials.”

“I have the credentials. There was nobody who was harder on Trump or more prescient about the fact that he wasn’t going to leave office voluntarily than I was. I feel like I have the credentials.

“But they also respect me because I’m honest about the woke train to crazy town. And I don’t shrink from that. And I’ve also lost a lot of fans for that. The woke people have left the building and I’m willing to make that sacrifice. But it does give you a certain credibility. So I just think to meet somebody, first of all, it’s an honor to be invited to the White House.”

Cuomo agreed, and Maher continued.

BILL MAHER: “It’s an honor to be invited to the White House … I’m impressed by it a lot … I get to go to the White House … Let’s talk to each other face to face. Let’s stop shouting from 3,000 miles away.”pic.twitter.com/Kp8QXg7t6v

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 28, 2025

“And I’ve already had a couple of people who I said to them, you know, I’m just gonna take it as a backhanded compliment that you glide right past the idea that little Bill Maher from River Vale, New Jersey, just a humble kid from the suburbs was invited for a private dinner at the White House. You glide right past that to how dare you talk to him and that you’re not impressed by it at all. I’m impressed by it a lot. I’m impressed the f**k out of it. I get to go to the White House and, yes, that is the structure of this dinner is just let’s talk.

“Let’s talk to each other face to face. Let’s not stop shouting from 3,000 miles away, you know? So if they expect me to be leaving in a MAGA hat, they’re gonna be very disappointed, but I know they don’t. And I think it’s gonna be, you know, look, it probably will accomplish very little, but you gotta try, man. You gotta try.”

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