{"id":308700,"date":"2025-11-23T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308700\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:43:17","slug":"bill-maher-responds-to-karoline-leavitts-defending-donald-trumps-piggy-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308700\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Responds to Karoline Leavitt\u2019s Defending Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018Piggy\u2019 Remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Maher<\/a> issued a brutal response to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a>\u2018s defense of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s recent \u201cpiggy\u2019 remark.<\/p>\n

On the Friday, November 21 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher<\/a>, the host, 69, brought up how Trump \u201cdid a complete 180\u201d on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, he won\u2019t release the files. This week, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, the Epstein files. Sure, we\u2019re gonna release those,\u201d the comedian pointed out during his opening monologue. \u201cBut, you know, always the fine print \u2014 they\u2019re going to be redacted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher segued by declaring Trump is still \u201cvery touchy about the Epstein thing.\u201d He recounted the eyebrow-raising moment the POTUS, 79, told \u00a0journalist Catherine Lucey from Bloomberg News, \u201cQuiet, piggy!\u201d after she asked a question about the convicted sex trafficker on Air Force One.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Maher called out Leavitt\u2019s defense of Trump\u2019s November 14 insult.<\/p>\n

He explained, \u201cAt the press conference the next day, his press secretary Karoline Leavitt spun this by saying: \u2018It\u2019s actually admirable. It\u2019s the President being frank and open and honest. That\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when he bluntly declared, \u201cWell, in that case, \u2018Shut up, b****.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

(What Leavitt actually said<\/a> during a November 20 White House press briefing was: \u201cI think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a nearly daily basis.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling you, if you go near this Epstein thing, he does not like it,\u201d Maher reiterated. \u201cI mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> was his biggest ally, and she was all-in on, \u2018We\u2019ve gotta get the Epstein files.\u2019 And this week, Trump went nuts on her. \u2018She\u2019s a disgrace. She\u2019s wacky. She\u2019s a ranting lunatic.\u2019 All I can say is, Marjorie, welcome to the club.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a holiday hiatus, Real Time With Bill Maher will return on Friday, January 23.<\/p>\n

Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays, 10\/9c, HBO<\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Maher issued a brutal response to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt\u2018s defense of Donald Trump\u2018s recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,10161,12,14825,17153,3,60021,21,19,22,20,25,24,3123],"class_list":["post-308700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bill-maher","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-news","tag-real-time-with-bill-maher","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}