Bill Maher Bristles After Sunny Hostin Tells Him ‘You’ve Changed’: ‘I Didn’t Change, They Changed’

In the third and final guest segment of ABC’s The View on Tuesday, Bill Maher and the co-hosts closed out a lively discussion with Maher arguing that liberals aren’t what they used to be.

This part of the conversation continued what was started in the second segment, when co-host Sunny Hostin confronted Maher about using the word “woke” to describe the extreme left. Maher noted that the word could be “triggering,” and we should probably find a new word. His point was that, in his view, there were now four factions of the opposite ends of political spectrum — the far left and right and the “old-school” liberals and conservatives. He also claimed that he was still an old-school liberal.

Hostin, however, told Maher: “You’ve changed, though.” Maher explained that this was the reason he wrote the book he’s currently promoting:

Maher: I think we’re tribal now, which is not good. And I think there’s four tribes. Basically, there’s old-school liberals, which I would mostly count myself as, old-school conservatives, there’s still some of those.

Hostin: You’ve changed, though.

Whoopi Goldberg: Wait, what are the other two?

Maher: Well, that’s what I was trying to find out in this book. I don’t think I have. And, you know, we were saying in the break, we have to come up with a new word for “woke.” Let’s have a contest, because this is a word that’s triggering. But, I mean, those concepts that are different than they were five years ago. I mean, we used to do… Well, you did it. I was a guest on, what was the homeless show?

Goldberg and Maher: Comic Relief.

Maher: Remember that? Great show. And “homeless” was a term that I thought we kind of came up with because people were calling them bums and vagrants and hobos. Homeless, now, no!

Hostin: It’s “unhoused.”

Maher: Well, it’s people experiencing homelessness. But they’re experiencing it on the street. Okay, the liberal view of that was, for compassion’s sake, we’re the liberals, we’re compassionate. Let’s get these people off the street. That’s not the view of the whatever-word-we’re-going-to-come-up-with-for-this. Their view of the homeless is, they’re an endangered species that needs to be protected in their natural habitat, living their best life under a bridge. You know, that, to me, is crazy. That’s the kind of things… I haven’t changed on that. I still think we should get these people off the street. That’s the compassion’s sake. So I didn’t change. They changed. And there’s lots of examples of that.

Watch the video above via ABC.