Bill Maher Lauds Trump: ‘He Never Gets Mad, He Listens’
Sandra Rhodes · Oct 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Comedian Bill Maher heaped praise on President Donald Trump after dining with the President at the White House.
Maher spoke about his experience — his second time at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Friday night on “Real Time.”
Maher was blasted last year after the dinner when he said Trump was “gracious.”
“And why isn’t that in other settings, I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer,” Maher said at the time. “I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”
On Friday, Maher interviewed former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and criticized Trump for his handling of Ukraine and treatment of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Maher wondered if Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were alive, the senator would be able to keep Trump in line on that issue.
“Honestly, I think what he’s doing with Russia is unconscionable,” Maher said. “And Lindsey Graham was the guy who always talked him out of that. If Lindsay Graham was alive, I just don’t think that Trump would be doing the stuff he’s doing, basically putting a knife in the back of Zelensky.”
Maher said Trump had originally OK’d a live-streamed execution of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan, but decided against it after public outcry.
“Somebody talked him out of that,” Maher said. “He does listen. When he’s in that White House, he looks you in the eye, he never interrupts, he never gets mad, he listens.”