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SocialDemocrat61

(7,616 posts)
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 09:35 AM Yesterday

Bill Maher, 70, Sucks Up to Trump After Kennedy Center Award Chaos

Bill Maher, 70, Sucks Up to Trump After Kennedy Center Award Chaos
After a messy back-and-forth over the Mark Twain Prize, the late-night host opted for praise over payback.
Olivia Ralph

Bill Maher is suddenly playing nice with Donald Trump—even after the president tried to stop a coveted award from making its way to the late-night host’s trophy case.

On Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, the 70-year-old host addressed the week-long mess over his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. While the comedian acknowledged the White House’s efforts to torpedo the honor, he then seemed to shrug it all off.

“I just want things to work out. I’m not looking for a fight, and I’m not mad that he did this,” Maher said in his monologue.

“Me and the president, we have a complicated relationship… this has been going on a long time, so him trying to block me from getting it? I respect the move.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bill-maher-sucks-up-to-donald-trump-after-kennedy-center-award-chaos/
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Bill Maher, 70, Sucks Up to Trump After Kennedy Center Award Chaos (Original Post) SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday OP
Yep, Trump has dirt on Maher. sop Yesterday #1
Don't think he was friends with Epstein, but... SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #7
"so him trying to block me from getting it? I respect the move." Jesus Christ, have a little dignity. ck4829 Yesterday #2
What is it about Trump that makes displacedvermoter Yesterday #4
Good question. It is pathetic. ck4829 Yesterday #5
Simple SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #8
He has some kind of Kompromat on them johnnyfins Yesterday #13
All of them? displacedvermoter Yesterday #15
Seems like yesterday that he was doing his new rule complaining about how too many black people win Oscars. BannonsLiver Yesterday #3
In recent weeks his "new rules" SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #10
I Watched It ProfessorGAC Yesterday #6
I agree! tableturner Yesterday #16
He thinks he has a relationship? randr Yesterday #9
Since Maher's opting to not turn it down Zambero Yesterday #11
Twain would never have been such a suck-up SamuelTheThird Yesterday #12
Maher will now replace the... mercuryblues Yesterday #14
I despise both of them. nt City Lights Yesterday #17
Who cares what this idiot does or thinks? LetMyPeopleVote 23 hrs ago #18
Do people still watch that show? ananda 23 hrs ago #19
I agree Eddie Haskell 60 23 hrs ago #20
Yes they do. Here's a pic of them. SocialDemocrat61 21 hrs ago #21
What a clown D_Master81 21 hrs ago #22

sop

(18,550 posts)
1. Yep, Trump has dirt on Maher.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 09:46 AM
Yesterday

I'm guessing Bill's been abusing young girls for years, and Bondi's got the pics in the Epstein pedo files.

ck4829

(37,713 posts)
2. "so him trying to block me from getting it? I respect the move." Jesus Christ, have a little dignity.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 09:52 AM
Yesterday

Bill Maher has apparently joined the war effort because if any Iranians see this, they might die a little bit inside from the cringe. I know I did.

displacedvermoter

(4,457 posts)
4. What is it about Trump that makes
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 09:59 AM
Yesterday

millionaires, billionaires, sports stars, politicians and celebrities great and small grovel before this cheesy, lazy, syphilis ridden bully?

Does he put the whammy on them?



displacedvermoter

(4,457 posts)
15. All of them?
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 11:21 AM
Yesterday

That is a lot of dirt digging. Does Trump have Roy Cohn on a ouija board gathering shit?

BannonsLiver

(20,571 posts)
3. Seems like yesterday that he was doing his new rule complaining about how too many black people win Oscars.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 09:57 AM
Yesterday

I guess that passes for entertainment with some folks.

SocialDemocrat61

(7,616 posts)
10. In recent weeks his "new rules"
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 10:06 AM
Yesterday

has attacked and even slandered elected democrats. Yet there are those who claim to be democrats who've repeatedly stated that "new rules" 'is always fun'.

Zambero

(9,985 posts)
11. Since Maher's opting to not turn it down
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 10:16 AM
Yesterday

He will never live it down. At this point in history, normalizing and sucking up to MAGA will leave an
indelible stain that won't be washed away with time. Nothing that he's said or done before or after will matter.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,667 posts)
18. Who cares what this idiot does or thinks?
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 12:05 PM
23 hrs ago

Maher sucked up to trump because Maher is no longer relevant. Maher ceased being funny a long time ago. Giving Maher this award is an insult to the memory and legacy of Mark Twain

Eddie Haskell 60

(90 posts)
20. I agree
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 12:46 PM
23 hrs ago

Maher supports war only if the genocidal ethno-state of Israel can continue their Greater Israel project by double-tapping rescue workers at bombed schools, places of worship, and hospitals.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-says-hes-on-a-historic-and-spiritual-mission-endorses-vision-of-greater-israel/

D_Master81

(2,573 posts)
22. What a clown
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 02:07 PM
21 hrs ago

Maher going full MAGA as the President’s approval rating circles the drain is a disaster of a choice that makes no sense outside of blackmail.

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