Are MAGA Supporters Really Y'all's Boys?

MAGA May Be A Good Time, But You're Going To Regret Looking Past The Cruelty

Bill Maher had a great dinner with Donald Trump.

The comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher met with Trump at the White House last month, a guest of mutual friend Dana White, the CEO of UFC, and Kid Rock. Maher talked about the experience in glowing terms on the April 11th episode, which triggered a flurry of controversy towards the normally anti-Trump pundit.

Maher described Trump as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on.” He added:

“Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was – I swear to God – absent, at least on this night with this guy. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is fucked up. It’s just not as fucked up as I thought it was.”

Immediately after Maher embarked on a press tour, appearing with, among other people, MAGA influencers Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk, where he whined about liberals complaining about his dinner with Trump. The Kirk interview made me think twice about writing this. I did not want to fuel the “ whiny libs are complaining, this is why they lose” narrative. However, I ultimately decided Maher doesn’t get to dictate how I should feel about it.

I don’t care that he had dinner with Trump. He’s a big boy; he can have dinner with whoever he wants. I am also not surprised Maher liked Trump; they’re a lot alike. Both are insufferable older men who crave being seen as alphas, feeling somewhat oppressed by shifting cultural forces that leave them behind. Maher may be slightly more empathetic than Trump, likely due to his libertarian leanings. If you can excuse Trump’s blatant racism, xenophobia, disrespect for women, the Constitution, and societal norms, then, sure, he’s probably a fun guy to be around. I imagine he and Maher had a fantastic time calling people “retards.” Here’s what irked me: