Bill Maher Tells the Left to ‘Get Over Silliness’ In Comparing ICE Killings to Iranian Regime

Bill Maher said liberal Americans who are irate over citizens getting shot by ICE agents need a reality check because it could be so much worse — they could be living in Iran.

“One reason the far-left just hates me is I keep it real about this sh*t,” Maher said on the Monday episode of his Club Random podcast.

He was talking to his guest, Iranian-American comic Max Amini, when he said there was clearly a big moral difference between the U.S. government and Iran’s theocratic leadership.

Maher said that was obvious after he asked Amini if he could ever visit Iran again and the comic told him, “I can’t, they’ll kill me!” Amini was born in the USA to Iranian parents who fled during the 1979 revolution; he moved to Iran between the ages of 8 and 17 before coming back to the States for good.

That led to Maher saying left-leaning citizens love to complain about life in President Donald Trump’s America, when it’s actually paradise compared to places like Iran.

“The truth is the truth, and this is the truth: you’d be killed,” he said to Amini, before chuckling and continuing. “And somebody’s going to be like ‘And ICE killed someone—.’ Yeah, ICE shouldn’t have killed those people. But it’s not the same thing. It just isn’t. Get over silliness, you know.”

Maher went on, saying Iran was a “regime that is just totally okay with killing thousands of people in the street and has done it many times.” He said Trump is nowhere near as bad because instead of killing protesters, he posts AI-crafted videos of himself dropping feces on “No Kings” protesters. 

The two comedians talked about Iran a good amount on Monday’s show, considering Amini’s unique perspective on the country and the war. Amini told Maher he didn’t think “anybody was worried” when Trump threatened to annihilate a “whole civilization” in April, if Iran’s leaders did not cut a deal soon.

“I think we knew that he was just using Trump language to scare people,” Amini said.

Maher laughed and said he was a bit more worried about it than his guest at the time.

Watch above.

Jason Cohen contributed to this story.

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