Bill Maher Rips Trump Nazi Comparisons: ‘He Is Not Hitler!’

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher ripped people who compare President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and giving an example of someone he really does think is Hitler — Nick Fuentes.

Maher was a guest on this week’s edition of NPR’s Newsmakers, during which host Steve Inskeep asked him about political personalities who have “recreational beliefs.”

As he responded, Maher went into a rant about liberals who find the other side “too deplorable even to break bread with”:

BILL MAHER: They, the, the left has this attitude like, and this is true of the Trump dinner. You are just too deplorable even to break bread with that really gets them. And I don’t blame the feeling, the feeling they have about that, you know, talk to them there, as I always say, everybody’s a monster till you talk to them.

STEVE INSKEEP: Is there anybody you wouldn’t talk to?

BILL MAHER: Of course. That Fuentes prick.

STEVE INSKEEP: (LAUGHS).

BILL MAHER: People like that, like actua–.

STEVE INSKEEP: Nick Fuentes. Yeah. Who’s an activist or whatever.

BILL MAHER: He’s a Nazi, he’s, you know, plain, I mean, look, nowadays everybody’s crazily anti-Israel, but that guy is, you now, when they say Trump is Hitler, such a dumb thing to say. First of all, counterproductive. Also, he is not Hitler!

But this Fuentes kid? That’s Hitler.

STEVE INSKEEP: As I read that thing about Greg Gutfeld, I was thinking about whether you would ever do that yourself, have a recreational belief.

BILL MAHER: Totally not. That’s exactly the opposite of me and why my audience stays with me.

STEVE INSKEEP: It’s your goal to be who you are and say what you think.

BILL MAHER: Yeah, the poster we put up says he’s not in it for the likes and that’s why they like me. It’s a great irony of my career. They know, even if they don’t agree, they know I’m not just saying it.

Watch above via NPR’s Newsmakers.

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