Late-night host and comedian Bill Maher knocked critics who were upset over his meeting with President Donald Trump, telling them, “f*** you,” in a firm rebuttal of feuding with “mean girls.”
Maher revealed in his newest episode of Club Random that he would be paying the president a visit at the White House, which he explained was an idea pitched by Kid Rock when the musician was a guest on Maher’s podcast. The late-night host acknowledged that some people were angry at him for this meeting, but largely brushed off the criticism.
“It’s like, f*** you, I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play where like, ‘Oh you know what, you can’t sit at my lunch table because I’m just not talking to you,’” Maher said. “’Not talking to you? You lost the election.’ Who the f*** do you think you have to talk to? You know, it’s one thing if you win it, it’s another thing if you lose it.”
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Maher pointed to how Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has “changed his tune” and started a podcast, This is Gavin Newsom, which has featured several prominent figures who support Trump and the Republican Party. Newsom’s first podcast featured Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Comedian Andrew Schulz, who joined Maher on his recent Club Random podcast, argued Newsom was “brilliant” for doing so. He also said that people engaging in friendly debate and conversation, despite being of differing ideologies, “needs to be normalized.”
Schulz noted how people in the United States “like bravery,” citing how the ancestors of U.S. residents left their homes to immigrate to a new land, joking that “we just have the DNA of crazy people” willing to risk everything. As such, he suggested there is a “primal instinctual reaction” of dislike among people unafraid to debate, which both he and Maher deemed “un-American.”
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Schulz then suggested this fear of debate may have played a factor in former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 bid for the presidency, referring to how Harris initially avoided the media when jumping into the race. Schulz cited how Trump seemed to be “willing to talk to whoever” in comparison, including Schulz when the comedian hosted Trump on his podcast, FLAGRANT.
Ahead of his meeting with Trump, Maher joked he would not “dress like Zelensky,” referring to when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Oval Office last month. Rather, Maher said he would wear a suit and tie, which he said was given to him by Jordan Peterson.
