Bill Maher Says He Wants Second Dinner With Trump Despite Left-Wing Criticism [WATCH]

Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher said Monday on his “Club Random” podcast that he wants to have a second dinner with President Donald Trump, despite backlash from the left following his first visit to the White House earlier this year, as reported by The Independent Journal Review.

Maher attended the March dinner alongside UFC President Dana White and musician Kid Rock.

The meeting drew widespread criticism from progressive commentators, but Maher said he appreciated that President Trump was willing to engage with him even though the two have disagreed publicly in the past.

“I hope to have dinner with him again,” Maher said.

“And he definitely doesn’t like it when you critique him and thinks you’re being unfair, but he is willing to listen. And he totally is not — because I had dinner with him and then didn’t become a Trumpist, he will yell at me, but does not want to cut me off. He does not want to cut me off, which is something I cannot say about the left. They want to cut you off.”

Maher expanded on his experience during the April 12 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, where he discussed the dinner at length and compared his interactions with President Trump to those he’s had with Democratic leaders.

“Honestly, I voted for [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump,” Maher said.

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“That’s just how it went down, make of it what you will. Me, I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.”

Following Maher’s remarks, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator Larry David wrote a satirical op-ed for The New York Times on April 21, in which he mocked Maher’s meeting with Trump by comparing it to “dining with Adolf Hitler.”

Maher later addressed the backlash on a July episode of his podcast, calling the reaction from the left “stupid” and arguing that refusing to engage with political opponents only worsens divisions.

“The stupidest thing the left does — and this dinner is a perfect example of it — is having this attitude toward the right that: ‘We won’t even break bread with you. We are so far above you that we won’t even sit down at the same table with you!’ That is their attitude — and that makes me sick too!” Maher said.

Maher has frequently criticized what he sees as intolerance within his own political sphere, while maintaining that open dialogue — even with figures like President Trump — remains essential.

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