{"id":74304,"date":"2025-08-16T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74304\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:50:07","slug":"bill-maher-slams-zombie-lie-involving-donald-trump-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74304\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Slams Zombie Lie&#8217; Involving Donald Trump &#038; Vladimir Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/bill-maher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Maher<\/a> sent a bold message about a \u201czombie lie\u201d (a disproven claim that continues to persist) involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/vladimir-putin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> on the latest episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/real-time-with-bill-maher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Time With Bill Maher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, August 15, the late-night host sat down with panelists, County Highway editor-at-large Walter Kirn and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast. The trio discussed President Trump\u2019s meeting with Russian President Putin in Alaska earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s kind of a zombie lie that Trump is Putin\u2019s, you know, b****,\u201d Maher bluntly stated. \u201cBecause he was certainly over friendly to him for a very long time, considering who Putin is. A thug and a murderer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the conversation, Maher elaborated on his opinion, refuting the idea that Trump has been quick to appease Putin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cLet\u2019s not have the zombie lie that [Trump] is still backing Putin,\u201d Maher declared.\u201dFirst of all, he bombed Iran, that was a Putin ally. He didn\u2019t get out of NATO. He mended fences with NATO. And he put sanctions back on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Maher touched on his thoughts about Trump and Putin\u2019s meeting as it pertained to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing about him that I know \u2014 I\u2019m not going to tell you how I know \u2014 and there are a lot of people that have said the same thing: He really does hate war,\u201d Maher said. \u201cHe really does not like it when people die in war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Kirn quipped, \u201cYou\u2019re really coming around, Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no coming around. There\u2019s just what\u2019s true. This is true s***,\u201d Maher shot back, adding, \u201cI\u2019m not on anybody\u2019s team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the August 15 meeting, Trump and Putin discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine that resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/evening-one-million-russian-casualties-us-have-slower-growth-truckin-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1.4 million casualties<\/a> since February 2022. The POTUS described their discussion as \u201cproductive,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/16\/trump-putin-alaska-summit-ukraine-no-breakthrough-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CNBC<\/a>. However, Trump conceded, \u201cThere\u2019s no deal until there\u2019s a deal,\u201d later adding, \u201cWe didn\u2019t get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays, 10\/9c, HBO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Maher sent a bold message about a \u201czombie lie\u201d (a disproven claim that continues to persist) involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-74304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}