Bill Maher Is Bragging About Being the President’s Puppet

There’s an idea that gets passed around a lot that you should be able to make friends with people with different political views. That’s fair, and there have been times when good has come from it. However, it’s important to realize that some people don’t deserve your friendship. Some things that should not be political, like basic human rights, are used as tools by a**holes who want the world to look like and benefit them and no one else. So, pardon me if my eyes damn near rolled out of my head at Bill Maher’s latest attempts to look like some kind of bipartisan hero.

I’ll admit there was a time when I was hip to Maher’s whole deal. Religulous came about when I was a teenager who had just left the Catholic church, so seeing an older man give the same kind of snark and sarcasm to religious types I, a teenager, disagreed with was super cathartic. Now, I know there was nothing to be gained from his anti-religion documentary other than enflating Maher’s smug sense of self-importance. Since then, Maher’s head has gotten bigger and bigger as he scolds Liberals for being too progressive and dines with an authoritarian whom he was introduced to thanks to Kid Rock.

Maher recently dined with Donald Trump and went out of his way to praise how much of a normal guy he was. Maher carried water for fascists, openly and proudly, like a dweeb getting invited to the cool kids table even though the cool kids keep bullying his friends. Then, he returns to his friends and says, “You know, he’s not that bad.” It’s loser s***. Maher would go on to claim that he’s still hard on Trump, and even if that’s true, all of that is moot when you normalize the guy and then brag about having his f***ing phone number.

That’s the next step in Maher and Trump’s “bromance,” a term I wouldn’t even use had Maher not gone out of his way to claim that wasn’t what was happening. The man that MAX is constantly forcing on their viewers had Lewis Howes on his Club Random podcast and asked if he would ever have Trump on the show. Maher jumped at the opportunity. “Of course, he’s the president of the United States,” he said. “Are you crazy?” To be fair, this isn’t just a problem with Maher. The media landscape has welcomed fascism in return for access. It sucks.

But ole Bill didn’t stop there! When Howes asked if Maher had access to Trump’s team, he took it one step further. “I can talk to him,” Maher noted while chuckling. “Look, we’re not having a bromance here,” making it clear that that’s precisely what’s happening. “I have no patience for people who just can’t find friendship with people who don’t agree with them. It’s just a way to civil war, and I’m not going down that road.” This doesn’t feel a little different, Bill?! Also, how someone can carry this much water for someone and not see they’re being used means they’re too dumb to notice or too pleased to care.

Setting aside the fact that Maher implies the only thing standing between the U.S. and a civil war is him publicly gargling the President’s shriveled old ballsack, it’s embarrassing that Maher keeps doubling down after Larry David ripped him to shreds for dining with Nazis. Maher stated at the time that bringing up Hitler means you lost the argument. No one’s arguing with you, Bill. They’re simply pointing out that you have a bromance with a fascist. Anyone who isn’t lodged in an ivory tower built on their own sense of self would be able to see that.