Donald Trump is firing back against Bill Maher, seemingly after he shared some critics of the president on Friday’s episode of Real Time.
Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to claim that he wasted time having dinner with the television host at the end of March 2025. He specifically referenced a moment during Maher’s most recent show where he slammed the president for his Monday post where he argued that China will “terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada.”
“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. He came into the famed Oval Office much different than I thought he would be,” Trump began in his new post. “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!”
He continued, “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?”
The president critiqued Maher’s Real Time for “devolv[ing] into the same old story — Very boring, ANTI TRUMP,” continuing to reference comments made by the host about his earlier comments about China terminating ice hockey in Canada during the Feb. 13 broadcast.
“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,” Trump wrote, continuing by comparing him to fellow late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, all of whom he’s been vocally critical of.
Trump wrote, “Fortunately, his Television Ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various Fake News statements about me. He is no different than Kimmel, Fallon, or Colbert but, I must admit, slightly more talented!”
Maher recounted his meeting with the president last year during the April 11 episode of Real Time, where he noted that Trump was “gracious and measured,” and not like the “person who plays a crazy person on TV.”
“The guy I met is not the person who the night before the dinner shit tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how he thought this was a bad idea and what a deranged asshole I was,” Maher continued during his monologue. “I read it and thought, ‘Oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house.’ But when I got there, that guy wasn’t living there.”
The visit was much-discussed at the time, with some critiquing the Club Random podcast host’s shifting perspective on Trump.
“You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar,” Maher added. “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.”
At the end of Trump’s latest Truth Social post about Maher, he concluded, “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. 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.”
