Bill Maher Gushes Trump Praise For 6-Plus Solid Minutes Over Peace Deal

Tommy ChristopherOct 18th, 2025, 10:06 am
 

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher gushed about President Donald Trump and the Israel-Hamas deal for a solid six-and-a-half minutes — not counting a chunk in the monologue.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was actor and former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The panel guests were Andrew Ross Sorkin, host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” and author of “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How it Shattered a Nation”; and Mark Cuban, minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks and founder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.

Maher kicked off his monologue with some Trump love, then kicked off the panel discussion with almost 7 minutes of praise over the hostage deal:

BILL MAHER: Let’s talk about the Middle East first. We are confronted here with a dilemma, I feel like. There is President Trump, the overseas hero, who does make good deals overseas, it looks like.

Not just this place, but a couple other ones. And then, domestically, the threatner of democracy.

My first question is just, can we separate these two? Because they are two different things, and some people do not want to.

I’m a separator usually, like, I can recognize that R. Kelly should not have had sex with little boys or little girls, but Ignition is still a great jam, you know, and I’ll play it tonight if I feel like it. But what’s your first answer on that? Can we separate them and just…

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Hold two ideas in your head at the same time. Thank you. There you go. Absolutely. You can give this president a standing ovation for getting to this point and not give him the Nobel Peace Prize, right? I think you can look at this and say, this is a very good situation. It’s something that has not happened for the last two years we’ve been waiting for this moment. And then we’re going to have to see.

BILL MAHER: But why, it’s the Nobel… Peace Prize, not the Nobel Democracy Prize.

ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Well, and the question is, do we have real peace? And I think the jury’s gonna be out on that. We’ll see where we get. But give him credit. You can not like this president at all. You could not like this president at all.

MARK CUBAN: No one’s going to be good at everything, right? And if he’s good at getting deals done overseas, give him credit for it. If he’s not so good domestically, give him shit for it

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

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