Bill Maher Recounts Dinner With Trump With Compliments: ‘Gracious, Measured’
Charlie Kirk Staff
04/13/2025

One of President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics, HBO host and comedian Bill Maher, had glowing things to say about the commander-in-chief after the two met.
The meeting happened at the White House last week and was attended by UFC President Dana White and pop star Kid Rock, who arranged the meeting.
“OK, so meet up in person, maybe it’ll be different. Spoiler alert, it was. First good sign, before I left for the capital, I had my staff collect and print out this list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president said about me. Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy. Really a dumb guy, fired like a dog, his show is dead,” the comedian said.
“I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it, which he did. Which he did, with good humor, and I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. Oh my god, Bill, are you gonna say something nice about him? What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it. And if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f*ck,” he said…
“My friend said to me, what are you going to wear to the White House? I said, I don’t know, but I’m not going to dress like Zelenskyy, I’ll tell you that. Just for starters, he laughs! I’ve never seen him laugh in public. But he does, including at himself. And it’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it. And I thank you for them,” the “Real Time” host said.
He went on to talk about the meeting in detail and included a chat he and the president had on his policy in Iran.
But he ended his “book report” with a swipe at his liberal viewers.
“You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured, and why he isn’t that in other settings, I don’t know. And I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high,” he said.