‘Went Full Trump!’ Bill Maher Rips College Kids Saying ‘Very Fine People On Both Sides!’ Following Hamas Attack

Comic and pundit Bill Maher compared college students demonstrating in support of Palestinians to ex-President Donald Trump saying there are “very fine people” on both sides of White supremacy issues.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic’s panel guests were James Kirchick and Matt Duss, and his interview guest was Tristan Harris, co-host of the podcast Your Undivided Attention.

Maher opened the show by slamming college students in his monologue for “throwing their lot in with the killers”:

It was a difficult week, very depressing week. I’m sure you saw Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, broke in Israel, killed over 1300 people, men, women and children. And then the college kids in America went full Trump and said there’s very fine people on both sides.

What is going on? Thirty-four Harvard Association, Student Association, signed a letter that basically threw their lot in with the killers.

But there was a backlash because some CEO said when these kids now go for a job, they’re going to be blacklisted and. And a lot of the students are still standing by their position to support the war criminals, but they strenuously object to the word “blacklist.”

Later in the show, Maher and his panel lit into the college activists in an extensive exchange, while pointing out they are a small minority:

DUSS: I do. I do want to say something pretty, pretty serious here.

Well, I will maintain and agree with with James here that this is a small minority. I have heard from colleagues, Jewish colleagues on the left. And my friend Michelle Goldberg wrote a piece in The New York Times. My friend Josh Leaver wrote a piece in dissent. And I’ve been struck by personal conversations here, too, from Jewish colleagues on the left, who I consider allies, very close friends. And they have been shocked. And I take that very, very seriously because, again, as someone who wants to build a serious and effective left, if Jews do not feel that the left is a home for them, we will not have a serious and effective left.

MAHER: I will all agree for the sake of being positive here, that it’s a minority who believes this, but it is coming. But I don’t think it’s a minority on elite campuses, which is the mouth of the river from which most of this nonsense flows. And they’re very influential. And those are the people who graduate and become the assholes in society.

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