Talk show host Bill Maher responded to President’s Trump’s epic 1,318 word rant calling him a “total loser” – comparing dining with the commander in chief to dating Taylor Swift.
“I mean, eating with Trump is like dating Taylor Swift. It’s a lot of laughs at the time, but later on, they’re tearing you a new a–hole,” the “Real Time with Bill Maher” host said on his HBO show Friday night, a nod to the singer’s notorious propensity to shiv her exes in song.
“He went off on me like Kelly Clarkson in a toy store,” Maher said, referring to the infamous, headline-grabbing public tantrum inside a Brooklyn toy store.
Maher’s Oct. 15 dinner at the White House also included singer Kid Rock and ESPN sports analyst Stephen A. Smith.
Last Sunday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social: “Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not ‘HOT’ anymore!
On Friday night’s show Maher said: “Look, I don’t want it to be this way. The whole point of having these dinners was talk, disagree, but listen, which he does in person, but don’t hate each other. And then I go back to my job here and then the heartaches begin.”
Maher was handed a printed copy of Trump’s Truth Social post, and then began to “address a few of the allegations.”
“It begins, ‘Let’s talk about the complete and total loser Bill Maher.’ You got me there. I’ll own that,” Maher deadpanned.
“What pisses me off” Maher continued, is that Trump, “doesn’t even notice what I say,” referring to a line in the Truth Social post where the president wrote, “[Maher] doesn’t think it was a good thing to take the Nuclear Weapon away from Iran, which shows you that he is not very smart.” “Real Time” then played clips where Maher agreed with Trump on the issue.
The late night funnyman continued: “Page two, he talks about how I call him incessantly. I’ve never called you, you call me. I’d be afraid to call you. You’re the president. I think you’re too busy. Well, plainly not.”
He called the 1,318-word post, “Longest ever — kind of a flex.”
“Dining at the White House is the opposite of the Cheesecake Factory. After you leave, they review you,” he joked.
Trump’s takedown was apparently in response to Maher’s monologue on his Oct. 23 show, in which he said, “It’s just a little odd that Trump keeps gushing about men’s bodies, and how handsome they are, and their jawlines, and their asses, their physiques.”
“I’m a little hurt. I was there for dinner for four hours last week, and not a peep. Nothing,” he added.
