Bill Maher threatens to quit HBO show following Trump’s election win
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” has hinted he may leave his long-running show following Donald Trump’s election win.
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Following his dinner with President Donald Trump, Bill Maher is teasing that he’s got a lot to say about the experience.
The “Real Time with Bill Maher” host, a longtime critic of the businessman-turned two-term president, took to X Tuesday afternoon to report back on the meeting. “Hey everybody, thank you for all the interest in my dinner with the president last night – I promise, all will be revealed on the next @RealTimers on April 11,” Maher wrote.
He added, “As it’s April 1 today, no one would believe what I said today anyway!”
County rock singer and staunch Trump supporter Kid Rock was responsible for setting up the dinner between the two.
Prior to the meeting, Trump expressed doubts about how the encounter would go in a Sunday night Truth Social post, saying Kid Rock suggested they confer, and “I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting.”
He added, “The problem is, no matter how much he likes your Favorite President, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc., … Who knows, though, maybe I’ll be proven wrong? In any event, I’m doing a favor for a friend. I look forward to meeting with Bill Maher, Kid Rock and, I believe, even the Legendary Dana White will be present. It might be fun or, it might not, but you will be the first to know!”
Kid Rock says Bill Maher, Trump ‘talked about things we had in common’
For his part, Rock said Tuesday morning on “Fox & Friends” that “It could not have been better. Everyone was so surprised.”
He continued, “The president was so gracious. He took us up to the private residence and we saw the Gettysburg Address and the Lincoln bedroom, and I was like, ‘You’ve never been here, Bill?’ … We talked about things we had in common. Wokeness, securing the border. The president was asking him what he thought about policy going on with Iran and Israel and things.”
Rock said, “It blew my mind. I was very proud.”
Though he told the hosts that the guests checked in their phones, he hoped the White House would release some photos from the meeting.
Bill Maher explains why he ‘will talk to anybody’
“There will be lots of people on the left who will be like, ‘How you talk to this man?’” Maher said on the March 23 episode of his Club Random podcast. He went on to explain why he found it important to reach across the political aisle.
“I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play where like, ‘You know what? You can’t sit at my lunch table because I’m just not talking to you.’ Not talking to you? You lost the election,” he said. “Who … do you think you have to talk to? It’s one thing if you win it; it’s another thing if you lose it.”
Maher continued, “We’ve got to get more of this going. This has to become the center. This has to become a real center. Right now, it’s a few lonely islands that need to become a bigger … sandbar.”
When guest Andrew Schulz asked what Maher planned to wear to the dinner, Maher replied, “I’m not going to dress like (Volodymyr) Zelenskyy. It’s not going to be a black T-shirt.”
“I am wearing a suit and tie,” he said. “It’s a sign of respect. It’s the White House! … You also have to respect the guy did win. It’s more than half the country. I keep saying it, I’m not going to hate. You can not like Trump; you can hate him, but you can’t hate everybody who voted for him. I said it in my last special: I don’t hate half the country, and I don’t want to hate half the country.”
“So yes I will talk to anybody, and it’s an honor to be invited to the White House under any circumstance.”
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