{"id":909125,"date":"2026-11-07T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/909125\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:32:12","slug":"bill-maher-rubs-salt-in-trumps-midterms-wound-donnie-are-you-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/909125\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Rubs Salt in Trump’s Midterms Wound: ‘Donnie, Are You OK?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile his HBO<\/a> counterpart John Oliver issued an urgent warning about voting GOP<\/a> during the midterms, Bill Maher<\/a> spent the majority of his time in the lead-up to the critical election dining with the Trump at the White House (and then bickering with him publicly<\/a>), conducting an embarrassingly softball interview with Trump\u2019s former press secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a> and platforming Kid Rock\u2019s racist rants against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd so, following a blue tsunami that saw the Democrats wrest back control of Congress in startlingly dominant fashion, the increasingly illiberal pundit dedicated Friday night\u2019s episode of \u201cReal Time\u201d to \u201cgloat\u201d about the Dems\u2019 big night \u2014 and make some gay jokes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRepublicans lost bigly. There\u2019s no other way to put it. And, great! Now I\u2019m never going to get that check for $5,000,\u201d joked Maher, adding, \u201cIn 2016, Lindsey Graham said, \u2018If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed\u2026 and we will deserve it,\u2019 and it just shows gays are always ten years ahead of everybody.\u201d (Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, passed away in July.)<\/p>\n

\n\tHe wasn\u2019t done. \u201cWell, look, I hate to gloat, but sorry, I have to do a little bit because everybody was hedging about this election,\u201d Maher said, before pointing to a series clips of himself on \u201cReal Time\u201d and various cable news programs predicting that the Democrats would deliver a \u201chistorical thumping\u201d to the Republicans during the midterms.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHere\u2019s something I could not have predicted: Trump\u2019s reaction to the election. He said, \u2018Congratulations to the Democrats, they did a good job,\u2019\u201d offered Maher, before looking directly into the camera and addressing his sparring partner: \u201cDonnie, are you OK? I know we\u2019ve been feuding. You sound unwell. You\u2019re not even going to fake it was rigged?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his HBO counterpart John Oliver issued an urgent warning about voting GOP during the midterms, Bill Maher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10161,12,88,1035,170164,60021],"class_list":["post-909125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bill-maher","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-midterm-elections","tag-real-time-with-bill-maher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909125","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=909125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}