Bill Maher Once Again Hits Back At Larry David, Defends Trump Dinner

Bill Maher The finale of the 23rd season of the series has ended Real time striking back once again Larry David and defending his dinner with the President Donald Trump.

Continuing to talk about the pitfalls of ostracizing family members for voting for MAGA, the TV host turned to his personal experience. Maher previously shrugged off fellow comedian David's criticism of his dinner with the GOP leader. ridiculed in April New York Times essay entitled “My Dinner with Hitler.” In response, Maher called the article “offensive”, noting shortly thereafter that “Nazi is a difficult word to use with nuance.”

Maher lamented the episode: “It's so childish, so purely emotional – people who got hurt badly because I had dinner with him. You know, because he's Hitler. But he's not. So useless and stupid. Trump is the most supportive president of Israel and the Jews there has ever been.” (Although Trump was a supporter of Israel, he also weaponized anti-Semitism suppress dissent over Gazaaccording to a representative survey, and drew criticism from Jewish groups for offending.)

Maher continued: “Every year I asked Larry David to do Real time and he always said, “Bill, I can’t, I don’t know enough about politics to do your show.” Yes, now I understand it.

Continuing his rant, Maher railed against “high school” education, likening Democrats' reluctance to work with Trump as akin to banning him from their “dinner table.”

“You’re not serious people,” he joked, quoting Brian Cox’s Logan Roy on the HBO series. Continuity.

He added: “What exactly is the argument? That by talking to Trump I'm going to raise him? Oh my God, don't tell me he can become president. Well, I guess [NYC Mayor-elect Zohran] Mamdani is going to elevate Trump because he was in the White House today and look who’s getting along now?”

Noting that Trump makes decisions based on personal relationships, given that he is a “man of the people,” Maher encouraged others to follow his approach.

“If anything, we need more people like me to dine with him. You complain that he's surrounded by ass-kissers, but your strategy is to have no one but ass-kissers around him? You're not serious people,” he concluded.

Live with Bill Maher will return with a new season on January 23.