Comedian Bill Maher criticized the left in a recent interview, saying that woke liberal thinking is what’s behind former President Trump’s popularity.
Journalist Tina Brown asked Maher on Sunday about the former president’s supporters, whom she likened to a cult, and about Trump’s continued popularity in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot.
“I mean, you have to admit to some extent the left is aggressively anti-conventional. Democrats keep campaigning on this one idea, telling the American people, ‘You can’t do anything worse than Donald Trump,’ and they keep saying, ‘Yes, you can. Yes, you can,'” Maher said in an interview. Aspen Ideas Festival.
The HBO host said his friends complain about “hyper-conscious” kids in their 20s, adding, “They’re annoying their parents.”
In an interview with journalist Tina Brown, “Real Time” host Bill Maher said the left is “actively opposed to common sense.” (Screenshot/HBO)
Bill Maher vents his anger: “Why is it OK for leftists to hate Jews?”
“They say, ‘Mom, you don’t get it, that’s an old way of thinking,’ and I say, ‘What don’t you get? Abolish the police, tear down the Lincoln statue, give communism another go, get rid of the border patrol, get rid of capitalism, white supremacy is worse than it’s ever been, and gender has always been a social construct, and it’s OK to have penises in women’s swimming pools and women’s prisons.’ No, I’m not old, you’re stupid,” Maher says.
Maher, who has been an outspoken critic of the former president, said conservatives have told him “what you don’t understand about Trump is that we don’t like him either.”
“They just hate the other stuff more,” Brown added.
“I don’t blame them, because a lot of it is their own problem. I understand why that’s the biggest issue — what you hate about Trump and democracy and all that — but for a lot of people, it’s a nebulous issue. Ukraine is very far away. But issues about family and race and gender are their own problem,” Maher said.
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. (Getty Images)
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Maher said Thursday’s CNN presidential debate will be “not as entertaining as we think it will be.”
“First of all, Mr. Biden, we’re just looking for living proof,” he said. “He’s benefiting from low expectations.”
Maher also expressed optimism about Biden, saying he can “get the job done” but can’t “run for office.”
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“Trump is Trump and I don’t think that’s going to change anyone’s mind,” he said.
Maher suggested in May that Biden was pushing for a debate with Trump because he was “losing.”
“Well, I think the one who has more to prove is Biden,” Maher said. “Trump is a known figure. Everybody knows he’ll be an idiot. He’ll lurk and mope and not follow the rules and stuff. But with Biden, they want to see proof that he’s alive.”
