February 15, 2026

Trump sought to influence Bill Maher and he's now going to complain that he didn't get as much favorable press/comedy as he thinks — or pretends to think — he deserves.

"Sometimes in life you waste time! T.V. Host Bill Maher asked to have dinner with me through one of his friends, also a friend of mine, and I agreed," said Trump (at Truth Social).
He came into the famed Oval Office much different than I thought he would be. He was extremely nervous, had ZERO confidence in himself and, to soothe his nerves, immediately, within seconds, asked for a "Vodka Tonic." He said to me, "I’ve never felt like this before, I’m actually scared." In one respect, it was somewhat endearing!"

Trump seems to enjoy diminishing Maher, but I suspect Maher adopted this "little me" pose to disarm Trump. Obviously, Maher was bullshitting. There's no one who has never been scared. It's a joke. He's a comedian. And so is Trump.

Trump continues:

Anyway, we had a great dinner, it was quick, easy, and he seemed to be a nice guy and, for his first show after our dinner, he was very respectful about our meeting — But with everything I have done in bringing our Country back from “OBLIVION,” why wouldn’t he be? But then I noticed his show started to devolve into the same old story — Very boring, ANTI TRUMP, no mention of the PERFECT Border, Lowest Crime in 125 years, the Mass Removal of Stone Cold Criminals, the 50,000 DOW, the 7,000 S&P (Both Highest Ever!), Least Number of Murders since 1900, Venezuela, “Midnight Hammer,” Soleimani DEAD, al-Baghdadi DEAD, Lowest Inflation in YEARS (1.2% for last three months!), the Rebuilding of our Military, Eight War Stoppages, and on, and on, and on! In any event, it was a total waste of time....

It was quick and easy but still a total waste of time

... for me to have this jerk...

This jerk! 

... at the White House and last night, after explaining what a DISASTER Canadian “Leaders” are to deal with, how Canada has “ripped off” the United States for years on TRADE (But not anymore!), I jokingly stated in a TRUTH that, “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.” Well, he went on and on about the Hockey statement, like “What kind of a person would say such a foolish thing as this,” as though I were being serious when I said it.

Maher is a comedian and Trump is a comedian. Talent recognizes talent. Supposedly. But Maher didn't see that Trump had told the joke and Maher is trying to make a joke out of portraying something that was a joke as just a stupid thing to say... and wringing a laugh out of calling it stupid. Trump had dinner with Maher and, I suspect, believed Maher would forever after credit Trump with first-rate comedy skills. 

Fortunately, his Television Ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various Fake News statements about me.

Trump seems to have forgotten the Streisand effect. He just used his social media to repeat the Maher bit he's so annoyed by. Or is Truth Social "low rated"? 

He is no different than Kimmel, Fallon, or Colbert but, I must admit, slightly more talented! Anyway, Bill Maher is a highly overrated LIGHTWEIGHT, and Republicans should stop using him to show how the Left is coming over our way — Our Base, the Greatest of All Time, laughs at your weakness when you do it! Maher asked me if he could come back to the White House again and, with his friend, also asked to come to the wonderful White House Christmas Party, but he didn’t.

That seems to mean Trump invited Maher to the party, but Maher didn't come. Trump thought they were friends but then the little man who was somewhat endearing slipped out from under the big man's wing. Sad! And now Maher, who's got a show to do, is back to telling jokes about the President of the United States. What could you expect him to do? I'm sure Trump knows he got something good enough out of his dinner with Bill. It wasn't a "total waste of time." It took only a little time, and he got a little something out of it. He didn't get everything. There's nothing to be mad about. Except the way Maher didn't get (or pretended not to get) his hockey joke.

Regardless, I’d much rather spend my time MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN than wasting it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS!), and there is nothing that will ever be done to cure him of this very serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter! President DJT

Trump ends on a light note. Obviously, he's unfazed.

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Let me take a quick moment of your time to look into that saying I used: Talent recognizes talent. It's a useful phrase. Is it even true? Do comedians perceive the comedian in others who are good comedians? Maybe they — some of them — feel they are in charge of everything funny and look on others as feeding them straight lines. I've had the experience of saying something that already contains the joke only to have my interlocutor restate the joke as if he had originated it. 

But the adage would still be true as long as either or both of us lack comic talent. 

Here's a similar adage, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Valley of Fear" (1915): "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."

There's also "It takes one to know one."

And then there's "the comic's comic." I consider both Trump and Maher to be comedians, but obviously neither is the comic's comic. Trump is the people's comic, and Maher is the comedian for people who consider themselves educated and good and who clap loudly when they see that a joke has been told.

107 comments:

Lawnerd said...

Maher’s main problem is that at bottom he is a comedian who wants to be a serious cultural commentator. The problem is that comedians twist facts and play loose with facts in a way that conflicts with serious opinions and comments.

rehajm said...

Neither are comedians are they? Wince what say you?

rehajm said...

Jerry was at some boring thing having a miserable time and he spots Rock across the room. Rock comes over to him
and says with relief ‘Comedian!’ I don’t think either would get that treatment. Maher is the bosses son some pretend to appreciate and Trump is an effective President. His detractors remind us every day….

Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas said...

A man with charisma who can be labeled a "winner." Trump is swiping right on that every time.

john mosby said...

Maher similarly keeps mentioning the dinner on his show. Usually as a way of critiquing the postmodern Left for their excesses, that they literally can't sit down with their opponents. Trump and Maher are like hockey players who get in a punch-up because it's part of the game, but then joke around with each other in the penalty box. CC, JSM

Wilbur said...

Trump never ceases to amaze me in his willingness, if not eagerness, to wrestle in the mud.

Shouting Thomas said...

Trump is an amazing character. Like everybody else, I’m transfixed by the Shakespearian three act play. Will it be a comedy or a tragedy? Will Trump win the ultimate battle? Will the Orcs overwhelm the forces of Truth, Justice and the American Way?

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Maher is a classical Liberal who still believes in the Bill of Rights. Trump unfortunately can’t do the Reagan thing and accept that Maher is with us on vaccine skepticism, derision of economic “experts,” and celebrate the agreement on so many important issues like various hysterias.

OTOH just this week Maher made a fool out of himself because he’s still under the delusion that carbon is a pollutant. So he’s got some more learning ahead.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Political comedy is handicapped by an aversion to laughing at your own side. Bill has partially overcome this by recognizing the worst excesses in recent years except for the Global Warming scam. But really we are lucky to have any Liberal with a platform willing to mock leftist idiocy.

No one wants to return to the days of Mark Russell and his piano. No one. Two cheers for Bill Maher.

Humperdink said...

Maher is slowly coming around, vilifying one Lefty idiotic position at a time. It will take years. For me though, it’s his snarky delivery that is hard to take.

n.n said...

Trump leans in, leans on, and is generally proactive productive (PP - pun intended, maybe, baby).

n.n said...

Trump is an Anthropogenic Influencer (AI) of the first order, a leader of AI.

boatbuilder said...

Mike-his delusion isn't just that "carbon" is a pollutant. He (and/or his writers) doesn't know the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. And his clapping seals laughed before he even told the "joke."
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/you-dont-have-to-be-well-informed.php

boatbuilder said...

I'm not sure why Trump is giving him oxygen, though.

IamDevo said...

And in an apparent effort to retain his green bona fides and take a swipe at the stupid people Trump has placed in influential positions (specifically Doug Burgum at Interior), Maher conflated carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, suggesting that Burgum sit in his garage with his car's engine running to see how long he lasted breathing in "carbon." To a halfwit like Maher, all carbon compounds are the same and equally toxic because they contain the buzzword "carbon". Maher isn't naturally funny; he depends on a team of comedy writers for that. And in this case, his writers proved how stupid they were and by uncritically reading their stupidity, he enstupidated himself.

Drake 8 said...

Talent recognizes talent, like Lennon and McCartney

Dave Begley said...

I recognize other lawyers who are talented. Not hard to do.

boatbuilder said...

I guess Trump just needs to air his grievances.

Danno said...

MJB Wolf said ..."OTOH just this week Maher made a fool out of himself because he’s still under the delusion that carbon is a pollutant. So he’s got some more learning ahead."

I have seen that and it shows Maher is not on top of all of the issues he talks on. If he doesn't know the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide he needs some Quality Learing tutorials.

William said...

As movie stars go, Ronald Reagan was second tier. He had a pretty good career, but he was not one of the greats. Claude Rains appeared in far more memorable movies. As Presidents go, however, I think everyone has to agree that he was a significant figure---maybe even a borderline world-historical figure. That's a quantum jump above mere "movie star"......Something similar is going on with Trump. As a television star, he was no Tom Selleck and even as a real estate developer, he was no Tisch or Levitt. Still, the fact remains that he's one of the dominant figures of his age......I don't think anyone in Hollywood under the age of seventy ever found anything worthy in Reagan 's policies or character. The fact that he was one of them seemed to increase their hostility. And so it goes with Trump. His showbiz background doesn't give him an edge. It's rather the opposite. The showman parts of his persona really drives them crazy......In their league, he's a .250 hitter and therefore not worthy of respect.

jim5301 said...

How much time is wasted reading Trump's boring jiberish every day? Maybe he should use AI to add some zing.

jim5301 said...

It's notable that Trump had nothing to say about Jon Stewart's masterpiece last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpQbv7CmeE

Big Mike said...

Do comedians perceive the comedian in others who are good comedians?

Johnny Carson and Jay Leno certainly did. I’m not so sure about Letterman I found him unwatchable so I didn’t watch him.

Spiros said...

I think Maher was genuinely awed by the White House and this President. Trump is a larger than life figure that has captivated Hollywood, especially comedians, for the last ten years. It's not surprising that he was scared.

But I also believe that Maher, like many, many people, has a parasocial relationship with Trump, a man he had never met before. The White House dinner is what happens when a one-sided imaginary relationship, complete with a sense of intimacy and connection, even if hostile and angry, became real.

Big Mike said...

I’m going to disagree with you, Althouse. I don’t think Trump is a comedian, I think of him as a person who knows how to use comedy as one among a number of tools at his disposal. Don’t try to pigeonhole him or he’ll do something that makes an idiot out of you.

MSG said...

I have learned not to trust authors' recommendations about their favorite books. The books they recommend tend to be second rate at best, as if they don't want to boost a rival or want to make their own books seem better by comparison.

Joe Bar said...

Bill Maher never is certainly not a chemist.

boatbuilder said...

I am guessing that the "vodka tonic" line was a joke by Maher. Although I will be very disappointed in Trump if he didn't have the staff serve him one, pronto.

narciso said...

Maher was a vicious little toady to obama 'drag them to it' re obamacare, 'we need a recession to recover our democracy' et al

narciso said...

Pepperidge farm remembers

narciso said...

https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/2022989641188614545

Dogma and Pony Show said...

"Trump unfortunately can’t do the Reagan thing. . . ."

Why would Trump do the Reagan thing? The Trump thing is working pretty well.

Blair said...

Any man over the age of 25 who still drinks vodka is either an alcoholic, or is literally tasteless.

RoseAnne said...

Bill Maher questions a lot of views held by Democrats but always says ultimately, he will vote Democrat.

Maynard said...

Maher says a lot of things that make sense, surprisingly for a liberal. However, he displays the modern Democrat's conceit that at the is always the smartest guy in the room.

narciso said...

Hes never been, hes encouraged the worst impulses

He hates islamists however he votes for enablers like obama with his money a million dollars in 2012

Mr. D said...

Maher is a comedic William Proxmire. He will often mock the perfidy of his cohorts, but in the end he always votes with the team. Daniel Patrick Moynihan did a more erudite version of the same shtick.

Bob Boyd said...

I am guessing that the "vodka tonic" line was a joke by Maher.

And Trump was giving Maher a taste of his own medicine by talking about it as if Maher was serious.

baghdadbob said...

My problem with Maher is the constant intellectual dishonesty in his anti-Trump jokes. He is clearly smart enough to know that he frequently mis-represents Trump's words/actions, and although I watch his show and find him funny, it is infuriating to watch him do with Trump/Republicans what he will not do with Dems.

bagoh20 said...

Some people can't learn. Maher is not in that group, but he is in the slow learner group. That's infinitely better, but in the end he will side with the dinosaurs.

AMDG said...

Trump is occasionally funny but he is not a comedian. He takes himself too seriously. His complete and total self absorption not only makes him a joke but it has turned all the sycophants around him into jokes.

Maher is a comedian who is occasionally funny. I think he actually likes people so that makes his podcast a good listen. You have got to have some talent to make a 90 minute conversation with John Stamos interesting.

Christopher B said...

I think anybody complaining about Trump not doing 'the Reagan thing' is forgetting how viciously Reagan was attacked, including by other Republicans during the 1976 and 1980 primaries, and how much the Democrat party, including the DNC stenographers, has changed since those days. Even Reagan could only do 'the Reagan thing' in that environment.

Dogma and Pony Show said...

Reagan could play a certain type competently, but he never would have been entrusted by great directors to take on meaty roles where he'd have to stretch beyond that type. But there's no shame in that; the fact that he had a long career in Hollywood at all constitutes a huge achievement given where he started in life and the fact that he wasn't someone who grew up obsessed with acting or being an actor.

AMDG said...

baghdadbob said...
My problem with Maher is the constant intellectual dishonesty in his anti-Trump jokes. He is clearly smart enough to know that he frequently mis-represents Trump's words/actions, and although I watch his show and find him funny, it is infuriating to watch him do with Trump/Republicans what he will not do with Dems.

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Trump has turned himself into a target rich environment.

Maher certainly jokes about the left. He even calls them on their absurdity to their faces. I have never seen anybody question an AWFL about their support for Hamas until he asked Ana Kasperion about which Muslim country would she prefer to live in over Israel.

Yancey Ward said...

"Maher conflated carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide"

I have long been amazed at just how many global warming zealots do the exact same thing and it appears that they really don't know the difference.

Dogma and Pony Show said...

Not sure what qualifies someone as a "comedian," but when Trump speak at rallies, it seems pretty clear (a) that he's giving a performance (b) that's intended to be funny, and (c) is in fact quite funny. He's not just a politician who includes a few staff-suggest jokes in his speeches. He's doing standup.

As an example: There's a character who shows up a lot in Trump's shtick. He's an unnamed staffer who is always urging Trump to refrain from doing or saying something that the character thinks will land Trump in trouble. In Trump's impersonation of this character, he always starts, "Sir, ..." and the explains his concern in this worried, imploring tone. It'll be something like: "Sir, you can't tear down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom. That wing has been part of the White House complex for decades, sir. Sir, they will never forgive you for tearing down that building, sir."

Now, obviously, there's no specific staff person that this character corresponds to. It is, in fact, a character that Trump created and performs a certain way, in a certain voice, for comic effect. If that's not "being a comedian," I don't know what is.

narciso said...

He sits in a city crowling with homeless encampment where ag least a quarter of it was burnt down on purpose

bagoh20 said...

Of course Maher was scared. He spent years at a safe distance mocking and lying about a man who is extremely accomplished in multiple fields including his own (entertainment), and who manages world affairs with confidence and grit while defending his actions ad lib against a hostile press every single day. Maher, a man who just reads jokes off a teleprompter should be intimidated. Maher's inflated self-image is all that kept him from melting on contact.
Trump may be a braggard and endless self-promoter, and that may not be attractive, but it's also not what really matters. He doesn't get his way just because of his shit talking. He has a long record in the ring.

Charlie said...

Maher doesn't know what carbon dioxide is.........let that sink in.

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Peachy said...

the corrupt democrat-chi-com left are systematically destroying our nation.
Screw anyone who makes excuses for that.

Luke Lea said...
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Breezy said...

Maher admires Trump and his Jewish level chutzpah, as do the lot of us who gave him the reins.

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Big Mike said...

I have long been amazed at just how many global warming zealots do the exact same thing and it appears that they really don't know the difference.

@Yancey, do we blame the lefties for being stupid or do we blame high school chemistry teachers? Both?

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narciso said...

He would drink h2so4

Aggie said...

Hah - one of my grandad's doggerels:

Billy was a bright boy,
but Billy is no more.
For what Billy thought was H20,
was h2SO4.

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Big Mike said...

If that's not "being a comedian," I don't know what is.

@Dogma, not really. It’s just another tool he’s mastered to a useful level, among many others. Here’s an analogy — I have a tool box in the basement with hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers and a full complement of power tools, all of which I can use competently and effectively. That doesn’t make me a carpenter, even at the journeyman level.

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narciso said...

You want these psychos in charge

RCOCEAN II said...

Somebody in the comments a couple days ago stated (paraphrase) "Megan Kelly had Maher on her show, and Maher was shocked when he learned no policeman were killed on J6".

Except Maher has been told that before by other non-leftists. When Maher "keeps getting things wrong" its not because he's "confused" or "Stupid" or "Forgetful" - he's just doing the standard Leftwing tactic of being dishonest.

RCOCEAN II said...

Trump seems to forget that Maher has two audiences. There's average people who listen/watch him. And then there are Media Execs and critics. Yes, Maher can have dinner with Trump and still have a show, but he'd better make clear he despises Trump. Or he's out. Name all the pro-Trump talk shows on HBO or Comedy Central? I dont think there is one.

bagoh20 said...

Every President in my lifetime was selected, cultivated and put in place to be elected by a small group of connected well-funded people, Obama and Biden being prime examples. Trump was the first I've seen who was opposed by those type of people in both parties and the media. It not the same as what we have seen, and if that's not an unmitigated good thing, it's at least a good thing to try. They used to call it democracy.

RCOCEAN II said...

I've always been immune to Bill Maher's comedy. And he's gotten more physically grotesteque as the years as gone by. Last time I tried to watch (as opposed to listen) to his Random show, I actually went "ugh" when I saw him in the chair with his enourmas (sic) ugly head, a small little cigar, and his tiny withered body.

Anyone smoking those tiny cigars always looks effiminate. But i realized that if tiny Maher had smoked a big regular cigar it would make him look even sillier.

NKP said...

Three more years of him dominating the world stage is not fun to contemplate.

Way more fun than contemplating three more years of Kamala.

RCOCEAN II said...

Anyone it tells you how "old School" trump is that he actually cares what Maher thinks. I assume before 2015, Trump made regular appearances on Maher's show. And it was nice of Trump, who's not above taking shots at people's looks (cf Rosie) has never remarked on Maher's looks.

Skeptical Voter said...

Well if I had TDS (and some of my friends have raging cases of TDS which I mostly delete) I'd say this is a story about two buffoons.

Luke Lea said...

Trump is funny, which is not the same thing as being funny. There is something unmistakably childish in his unabashed egotism and tiny vocabulary. In those two respects, he an extraordinary case of arrested development. The trouble is, just as with a child acting silly for an adult audience looking on, it starts to get old. Even for those who support him on trade and immigration, Trump Fatigue is every bit as real as Trump Derangement Syndrome. Three more years of him dominating the world stage is not fun to contemplate.

Lazarus said...

Sometimes quoted as "genius recognizes its own." In praise of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville wrote, "Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." Edmund Wilson took "The Shock of Recognition" for the title of his anthology of American writers praising their peers.

Lazarus said...

Trump is a performer. His act comes across better on stage than it does in print. His throwaway lines get a laugh, and aren't meant to be studied and pondered. Stand-up is hit and run and doesn't work on the printed page.

Aggie said...

Actions, not words. I am amazed at how much has been accomplished in battle on this multi-front war. With judges, with the Legacy Media, with Progressive Democrats, with the EPA and Big Climate, with the UN, with the EU, with DEI, with Congress, with the Ivy Leagues. The level of energy and commitment to attention, just astounding. Never seen an Administration that was more committed to changing the status quo.

Aggie said...

....and changing it in a way that will benefit all citizen constituents, not just party favorites and big donors.

bagoh20 said...

"Three more years of him dominating the world stage is not fun to contemplate."

It's will be over 12 years of Trump completely dominating the political stage, even when out of power. That longevity is only partly due to Trump himself. The main reason is the disfunction of our government in doing its job and messing up most everything else too. Everybody knows the fraud is rampant and bankrupting us. The lawlessness and it's uneven application is now expected and demoralizing. The government's failure to solve any problem, or even to avoid creating new ones is well known. Some refuse to admit it, or feel the blame is with a few people they don't like, but in their soul they know it's ubiquitous failure that cannot be fixed or even improved by anybody in the swamp. That's the hook Trump has in the politics of our time. It's welcomed by half the country, and most of the other half would welcome it too if there was a Democrat with the same objectives. If MAGA was a Democrat phenomenon it would probably get 80% approval. The other 20% are staunch libertarians and those grifting off the failure - strange bedfellows.

narciso said...

It seems to do its job at our expense the 'inflation reduction act' was premised on this flimlam

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narciso said...

As such they have nearly wrecked the country beyond repair

Aught Severn said...

jim5301 said...
It's notable that Trump had nothing to say about Jon Stewart's masterpiece last week.


Against my better judgement I clicked the link and it is the entire show, not a targeted segment. Thanks but no thanks, I have much better things to do with 23 minutes of my time than slog through Jon Stewart antics.

What made this particular episode a masterpiece, specifically? Or is it a masterpiece because Jon Stewart made it thus ipso facto....

After all, nothing says comedy gold like TALKING IN ALL CAPS AND MAKING FRANTIC GESTURES!!!???!!!111!

narciso said...

Stewart is anothet snot nosed punk that doesnt understamd anything

narciso said...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/02/a_week_of_secondary_explosions.html#google_vignette

Big Mike said...

Trump sought to influence Bill Maher and he's now going to complain that he didn't get as much favorable press/comedy as he thinks — or pretends to think — he deserves.

Are you sure that was his goal? I think he sees the chessboard differently from the way you — and the media especially — see it.

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bagoh20 said...

Stewart and Maher have the same schtick. They attack both sides, although not at all equally, but they offer no suggestions beyond mockery. They have no confidence that they have a better answer to anything, and then they vote for what is the root cause of everything they mock. It really is childish, but I understand that making shallow thinkers laugh is their job, and they never have to take responsibility, because "I'm just a comedian". People need to remember that when they watch. I don't think they do.

Temujin said...

A President shouldn't care that much about what Bill Maher has to say about him or thinks about him.
But then, that is Trump's Achilles heel. He cares about any bad things, or any good things said or thought about him.

There is so much good and unique about Trump. But that weakness always keeps him anchored to unnecessary distractions.

narciso said...

After a year he did note how maher was still a fool

The judge said...

IanDavo..enstupidated…
Wonderful!

narciso said...

https://open.substack.com/pub/anncoulter/p/epstein-revelations-you-wont-read?r=2czur

Brian McKim and/or Traci Skene said...

I featured for a week under Maher at Caroline's on 8th in May of 1985. I hadn't been a full time comic for a year. I watched Bill from the back of the house for 5 or 6 nights and saw that he was a solid act who knew exactly what he was doing (that's why he was headlining, duh). Except for the brief monologue (written by a team of veteran writers), his task on his cable show isn't standup, but something entirely different and he's been doing it well since his Politically Incorrect show on ABC. And he and his team are exceptional at slicing and dicing his episodes into provocative chunks that drive the national conversation on social media.

RCOCEAN II said...

It'd be great if Trump was perfect - but he's not. He's the best we have. Its crazy that we needed to billionaire-celebrity to stop the Left from destroying the country, but the Republican Establishment types weren't going to do it.

Mitt Romney is a perfect example. He had all the tools to be the savior of the USA, but y'know he just didn't care. He just wanted to cut taxes and help Big business. Otherwise, he was with Joe biden and Hillary.

Same with almost all of the Republican "leaders". Look at the 2024 R primary. A bunch of clowns and fools who were primarily interested in starting WW 3 in Ukraine and helping the D's with open borders.

That's why, with all his faults, Trump got elected twice.

narciso said...

He was just another banker chop shop artists who finagled his way into a utah srat

narciso said...

Who endorsed grubercare and the climate hoax

Peachy said...

When you see leftists with "Jon Stewart/Colbert for President" bumper stickers ---
that says a lot about the left. ugh.

mccullough said...

The Trump v Maher donnybrook surpasses the Kendrick Lamer v Drake kerfuffle

Iman said...

Poopy river, more deadly than the vainest knife
Poopy river, your turd-filled water took my baby's life
Last Saturday evenin' came to the old oak tree
It stands beside the river where you were to meet me
On the ground some tissue I found
With a note addressed to me
It read "Dear love, I've done you wrong… now I’ve dined on poop and pee"

Poopy river, more deadly than the vainest knife
Poopy river, your turd-filled water took my baby's life

I looked into the shitty water and what could I see?
I saw a lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me
Tears in her eyes, a dingleberry on her lips
And the love of his lost love beyond his fingertips

Poopy river, more deadly than the vainest knife
Poopy river, teh Potomac took my baby's life

h/t Gary Bruce “Moody River”

Iman said...

Maher ain’t been the same since Ben Domenech exposed him a few years back for the ill-informed poseur he is. I’ll never forget the look on Maher’s “only-a-mother-could-love” puss.

I Use Computers to Write Words said...

"Trump is an amazing character. Like everybody else, I’m transfixed by the Shakespearian three act play. Will it be a comedy or a tragedy?"

Shakespeare wrote 5-act plays. And I think Trump's public life divided pretty nicely into 5 stages: real-estate mogul, The Apprentice, term 1, the interregnum, and term 2. How will act 5 turn out?

john mosby said...

Iman: fantastic! My unworthy response:

Poop river, wider than a mile
I 'm crossing you in style someday
Dysent'ry maker, you butt-breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way
Turd drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same big rear end
Waitin' 'round the bend
My dingleberry friend
Poop river and me

Now if I can get AI to deepfake Audrey Hepburn singing it....CC, JSM

john mosby said...

Ciso: "He was just another banker"

Hey, rhyming slang is against the blog bylaws! CC, JSM

bagoh20 said...

Trump ad libs all day long, every day defending the endless life and death decisions that affect history, and he's doing it more vigorously and courageously than any leader in memory. People like Stewart, Maher, Colbert, etc. Have a team of writers working full time to write easy attacks which they then simply read. I don't know how they have the gall to punch up that far, but it's a living. Nothing they say or do will even clear up a pimple on the ass of an average Trump day. Imagine what could be done if he didn't have to fight most of the world's failures and do-nothings just to fix the plumbing.

Peachy said...

To me - THIS is why democrats should go the way of the dinosaur. How can anyone trust them? they are all crooks and liars.

narciso said...

If he was british he would be a wanker, he hasnt had a principle he has upheld for a milisecond

Michael Fitzgerald said...

"There is so much good and unique about Trump. But that weakness always keeps him anchored to unnecessary distractions."
2/15/26, 11:58 AM

There is so much good and unique about Trump. But his "supporters" have such a perverse weakness that keeps them anchored to unnecessary and insignificant distractions roiled up by Trump's enemies.
There, fixed it for you shitheads. You're welcome.

Michael McNeil said...

According to Grok, re Bill Maher's running car in garage analogy, CO (carbon monoxide) becomes dangerous at about 1,000-5,000 parts per million (0.1%-0.5%). At that point CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the garage's air will likely range from 5,000-30,000 ppm (0.5%-3%).

Note that ambient (outdoors) CO2 in earth's air cruises at about 429 ppm (0.04%) these days—but that inflates to about 40,000 ppm (4%): 100x greater—in every one of everyone's exhaled breaths.

Iman said...

That’s the winner, Mr. Mosby!

jim said...

Wow, what a great joke, I'll have to remember that one!

mikee said...

I, for one, am amused at the tiny, tiny type used to anti-highlight Trump's rather long list of accomplishments and positive outcomes over the past year. Kinda makes the point about how Trump is treated in most media, including Maher and now, Althouse. Which is more important, Trump repeating his accomplisments at every opportunity, because damn sure nobody in the media will, or Trump bemoaning his failed outreach to Maher? I'll take the list of accomplishments and let Maher take care of himself.

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