Bill Maher Hungry to ‘Have Dinner Again’ With Trump — Despite Being ‘Hated’ by the Media for Their First Meal
Same time, same place?
Bill Maher said he would love to “have dinner again” with President Donald Trump, even though media pundits and critics “hated” him for their first supper together at the White House back in March.
The comic shared he has no reservations about grabbing another bite with the president during the latest episode of his Club Random podcast on Monday with guest Cheryl Hines.
Maher got onto the topic when Hines started cracking up at a framed sheet of paper with all of the insults Trump has hurled at the Real Time host over the years — a print out that Maher had Trump sign when they dined together.
“He signed it, God bless him,” Maher said.
“You know, it’s not like I was ever deceived before or after I had dinner with him, and I want to have dinner with him again,” Maher continued. “I think he needs more people [eating with him] — and he likes talking to people.”
“He does,” Hines added, before saying she was really “surprised” by how Trump “really likes to listen to people. He’s very curious.”
Maher agreed, and said his critics “hated me” for saying the same thing when he recapped their dinner during an episode of Real Time.
“I think he actually wants more people around him for stimulating conversation,” Maher said.
Maher said there we topics that came up during the dinner that he disagreed with — like Trump saying he was looking into running again in 2028 — but that he was receptive to pushback. The veteran comedian and political pundit was joined by Kid Rock and UFC boss Dana White during the dinner.
Hines, who is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, said she has been thrown off by how people will not give Trump credit, even when he accomplishes something she thought everyone wanted, like a peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
That was another topic, Maher said, that he got “sh*t” for, after he celebrated Trump spearheading the deal.
He then mocked anti-MAGA critics who were upset he had dinner with Trump in the first place.
“How dare you talk to the president. Why? What am I gonna [do], elevate him?” Maher said sarcastically. “Oh my God, what’s he gonna [do], become president of the United States?”
Hines then agreed with Maher when he said “everything is personal relationships” with Trump — and a good example of that was the peace deal he brokered in the Middle East, he said. Maher added a “definite plus” with Trump is that he “really hates war.”
Watch their conversation above.
