Bill Maher calls viewers who stopped watching after Trump dinner ‘idiots’

Comic Invoice Maher referred to as individuals who stopped watching his present after eating with President Donald Trump “idiots” throughout an interview with CNN’s Elex Michaelson posted Saturday.

“Initially, the individuals who stopped watching my present as a result of I had dinner with him are idiots in my eyes,” he mentioned. during the job interview about “The Story is with Elex Michaelson.” “They simply are. They’re simply utterly emotional as a result of they all the time ask the flawed query, which is, ‘How dare you exit to dinner with Donald Trump?'”

Maher had dinner with the president in April 2025 and was criticized by Liberals earlier than the assembly. Trump railed in opposition to Maher in a Reality Social put up over the weekend, calling the dinner with the comic a “complete waste of time.”

“The query ought to all the time have been, ‘What did I say after I had dinner with Donald Trump?’ If, after having dinner with Donald Trump, I got here again to the present and was tempted by that dinner and stopped tearing him a brand new one each week, each time I believed he had completed one thing flawed, then you definitely would have a case. That did not occur,” Maher mentioned.

Invoice Maher visits SiriusXM Studios on Might 20, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Noam Galai/Getty Photos)

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He mentioned he has not paused to ridicule the left when he thinks they’ve gone too far, and has continued to criticize the president.

“So I really feel like – after we met him and sat for 3 hours, it was an extended dinner – we received very offended with me for reporting it precisely, which implies he is very completely different personally. By the way in which, everybody who’s ever met him says the identical factor,” he mentioned.

Maher informed Michaelson that Trump typically texts him and “yells” at him.

Invoice Maher sat down with Elex Michaelson for an interview about his relationship with President Donald Trump. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos; Todd Owyoung/NBC by way of Getty Photos)

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“You’re nonetheless a part of the loopy left,” Maher mentioned, repeating a textual content message from the president. “He is watching. He will get it. Sure. That I have never modified, however what? It is simply higher as a result of then I can say one thing again and it turns into a dialog and never simply what it was.”

Maher went on to say that Trump does a number of silly issues, but in addition “makes individuals silly.”

“I believed, OK, we have been doing this for 10 years, simply yelling at one another from the opposite facet of the barricades. It is higher to speak to somebody,” he mentioned.

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Invoice Maher on the 83rd Annual Golden Globes on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (MEGA/GC photographs))

Michaelson agreed and questioned what the choice may very well be, asking, “A civil warfare?”

“It is simply purely emotional. It is simply so disappointing that some individuals who I think about rational individuals, Donald Trump, does a number of silly issues. He additionally makes individuals silly,” Maher responded. “Like, once more, what is the different? He is the president. You possibly can’t not discuss to him. What is the draw back?’

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