Bill Maher Lashes Out At Critics Of Trump Visit: ‘I Told Him To His Face’ He Lost Election

Comic and political pundit Bill Maher rebuked critics of his dinner with President Donald Trump, ticking through a list of things “I told him to his face” that included the 2020 election loss Trump constantly lies about.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Douglas Murray, New York Times bestselling author of the new book “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization.”

The panel guests were Matt Welch, co-host of “The Fifth Column” podcast and editor-at-large of Reason Magazine; and Sen. Tina Smith, Democratic senator from Minnesota.

In a discussion about the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maher slammed the futility of unrelenting resistance to Trump and what he viewed as an ineffectual display by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) in the Oval Office.

He then took a shot at people who criticized him for engaging Trump by visiting the White House:

MATT WELCH: Trump is wrong if he thinks that Americans are going to be in support of this. Americans are in support of deporting criminals, absolutely. Violent criminals, it’s like 97 to one. Yes, deport the violent criminals, but they’re not in favor at all of the President of the United States defying the Supreme Court. It’s like an 80 to 20 issue. He’s on the wrong side of that. But it’s, okay, but so what?

BILL MAHER: If I may address the little shot you just gave me, so fucking what, okay?

I don’t understand this. We’re at that part of the movie where there’s a gunfight and the guy, and then click, click. There’s no more bullets in the gun! We have no power!

So how do we handle this? And Gretchen Whitmer showed us one way. Can we show that picture? Cause she was in the Oval Office, same place I was a few weeks before. And this is what she did.

OK, I think there’s a couple of ways to handle the Oval Office. And this is not the way I chose.

You don’t want to talk to people? You have no power! I mean, people seem to gloss over the fact that I went in there, I didn’t surrender to him!

I said this, of course, people don’t care. They don’t watch what I actually did. They just react to clickbait.

But I went there, and I said to his face, you’re scaring people! Why do you want to scare your own citizens?

I said to his face “You ran in three elections, you lost the middle one!”.

I said to his face, birtherism was low. Okay?

I’m glad that I was able to go and do that. Got a seat at the table. Because again, what else do you have?

You have no power. So this idea that, I mean, and he’s gonna be there for another four years, that’s a long time to hold your breath. Well, and I- It’s a time to long to hold the thing up in front of your face, let me tell you.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.