{"id":771208,"date":"2026-07-19T01:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771208\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:20:11","slug":"bill-maher-curses-and-calls-trump-a-crazy-person-after-hes-pressed-on-his-dinner-with-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771208\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher curses and calls Trump a \u2018crazy person\u2019 after he\u2019s pressed on his dinner with president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comedian and political commentator Bill Maher<\/a> defended his decision to dine with President Donald Trump<\/a> at the White House<\/a>, arguing that engaging with the president is essential because Trump lacks fixed beliefs and is influenced by those around him.<\/p>\n

During a July 15 appearance<\/a> on NPR\u2019s \u201cNewsmakers,\u201d Maher described Trump as a highly self-aware person who was far more normal in private than his public persona suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people hated that you met him,\u201d host Steve Inskeep said. \u201cSome people liked that you met him. I\u2019m thinking about the conclusion you drew, which was that, if I can summarize, you found a sane person at dinner who plays a crazy person on TV, as opposed to an actual crazy person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher told Inskeep that critics who condemned the meeting were acting out of emotion rather than logic, dismissing their backlash as a competition to see who could hate the president the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a crazy person in the extent that he definitely has a form of Tourette syndrome,\u201d Maher said. \u201cHe just blurts out whatever is on his mind often. It\u2019s funny, he\u2019s both, at the same time, the most full of sh*t person and also the most honest.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"ComedianComedian Bill Maher defended his decision to dine with President Donald Trump during a July 15 appearance on NPR\u2019s \u2018Newsmakers\u2019 (Reuters)<\/p>\n

The late-night host rejected assertions that dining with Trump would elevate the president\u2019s platform, pointing out that Trump already held the highest office in the country and could not be isolated.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of friends, you know,\u201d Maher said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t read the briefing books. He does everything by, \u2018people are saying.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cBe one of the people \u2018saying.\u2019 Be one of those people who talk to him because he does look you in the eye and listen and he does change his mind sometimes because he has no fixed beliefs. They need more people like this, me talking to them, not less.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MaherMaher rejected fears that meeting with the president would elevate his platform, noting that Trump already holds the nation\u2019s highest office (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

According to Maher, the White House meeting resembled a \u201cNixon to China\u201d moment, intended to foster direct communication instead of trading insults. <\/p>\n

However, Maher said that Trump had since resumed attacking him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s back to hurling insults because I never once changed my tune. When I got back to work, and I never said I would. And the other argument is you\u2019ll elevate him? Oh my God, what is he gonna become president?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6234,88,165930,308,6235],"class_list":["post-771208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bestof","tag-entertainment","tag-essential","tag-horizontal","tag-topix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771208","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=771208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}