Bill Maher Shouldn’t Be Applauded for Taking 10 Years to Realize Trump Isn’t ‘Literally Hitler’
It only took ten years, endless smug commentary, and a private dinner for comedian Bill Maher to finally discover the obvious: President Donald Trump is not the cartoon villain the left-wing media — and Maher himself — have breathlessly painted him as.
Maher revealed his big epiphany during his April 11 monologue, raving about a March 31 dinner he had with Trump at the White House.
“Just for starters, [Trump] laughs! I’ve never seen him laugh in public. But he does, including at himself. And it’s not fake,” Maher said, discovering Trump is, in fact, human. “Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on this night with this guy.”
Maher continued: “I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people who don’t look you in the eye, people who really don’t listen because they just want to get to their next thing. … None of that with [Trump].”
“I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him, 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,” he continued, adding he feels that “it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.”
No, Bill. The meeting was emblematic of why people like yourself are so unpopular.
Maher’s opening monologue could have been cut down to a few simple words: I stupidly bought into — and peddled — the lies and smears about Donald Trump for years, and I realize I was wrong and had no idea what I was talking about.
Let’s not forget it was Maher who also took part in the “Hitler” hysteria that has engulfed the propaganda press for nearly a decade. Maher called Trump “Hitler-adjacent” in 2015 and reiterated this sentiment again when discussing Trump’s rhetoric toward China: “That’s the way Hitler talked about the Jews.”
Three years later, Maher claimed that Trump would praise dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini as “strong leaders.”
Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Maher said: “Somehow the world seems to be dividing between the ‘good guy’ countries — the democratic countries — and these autocracies. And, if [Trump] gets in, we’re gonna be on the wrong side of this one.” Maher, during the segment with Megyn Kelly, later said that Trump “tried to do dictatorial, fascist things and he was stopped” during his first term.
Maher peddled and ate the propaganda that made a caricature out of Trump. It was character assassination to say the least. But surely if any of it were true, a single dinner wouldn’t have been enough to dispel all the notions — and yet, it was.
Why? Because it turns out, as always, the left-wing propaganda press was lying with the purpose of ginning up opposition to Trump.
So, congratulations, Bill. Welcome to the realization 77 million Americans already had without needing a filet mignon with the president to figure out.