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Archive photo · 2 June 2025Donald Trump Orders Bill Maher: Don’t Call Anymore After 1,300-Word Truth Social Rant
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Trump posted a 1,300+ word Truth Social tirade labeling Bill Maher a 'complete and total loser'. The tirade followed their White House dinner on Oct. 15 with Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock.
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Trump and Maher feud
President Donald Trump posted a roughly 1,300-word Truth Social rant that called Bill Maher a “total loser” and instructed him: “Bill: Don’t call anymore.”
Trump’s attack followed Maher’s Club Random podcast remarks, where Maher told “Club Random” guest Justine Bateman that Trump is “way less” of a threat now and said, “He’s a lame duck now.”
Trump also accused Maher of “lies about everything” and said Maher “looked like hell this time,” after the two dined at the White House on Oct. 15 with Kid Rock and ESPN host Stephen A. Smith.
Maher, 70, said he is “regularly approached by Hollywood liberals” who ask “what are we gonna do?” and he replied, “Go back to the table and finish your $1,000 dinner for three people, you f***ing phony!”
Reactions and TV response
“The View” panelists reacted to Trump’s 1,300-word rant on the Monday, Oct. 26 episode, with Sara Hainesquipping saying, "He could try leading the country."
Alyssa Farah Griffin told the panel that Trump should “Try leading the country,” and she asked, "How much time does he have on his hands?"
Ana Navarro said she would not want to break bread or be in the same room with a man whose administration is “hunting Latinos,” and she argued that Trump expects guests to “get out there and lie about Donald Trump.”
The same episode tied the feud to the Oct. 15 White House dinner, where Maher dined with Trump, Kid Rock and Stephen A. Smith, and it noted that Maher later opened the Oct. 23 Real Time episode by discussing Trump’s “low approval ratings” ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Midterms and political stakes
Trump’s rant arrived as the sources tied the dispute to the approach of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, with the Guardian describing it as coming “just about a week until the US midterm elections.”
The Guardian reported that Maher told Karoline Leavitt he worried that if Republicans largely lose to Democrats, “we’re going to have a guy who doesn’t have as much power as he did,” and Maher added that he “knows he likes vengeance.”
The Guardian also said Trump called Maher a “coward who is afraid to tell the truth about how well our Country is running,” and Trump wrote, “Also, turn your Laugh Machine off.”
The Daily Beast framed the podcast timing by saying Maher’s episode was “taped before Trump’s Sunday-night meltdown,” and it quoted Maher saying, “Your life didn’t end,” as he argued Trump is “way less” of a threat now.