{"id":55341,"date":"2026-05-03T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/55341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:48:18","slug":"trump-rips-weak-totally-deficient-bill-mahers-chat-with-dumb-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/55341\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rips ‘weak,’ ‘totally deficient’ Bill Maher’s chat with ‘dumb’ Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump<\/a> has blasted comedian Bill Maher for being \u201cdefenseless and totally deficient\u201d during his interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump \u2014 who previously sued Maher for failing to pay him $5 million for proving he was not the offspring of an orangutan \u2014 wrote online Saturday that the talk-show comedian<\/a> was \u201cweak and ineffective\u201d at holding the lefty Dem\u2019s feet to the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night, I happened to watch Gavin Newscum, an admittedly Low IQ person, who said he can\u2019t read a speech, is dumb, and essentially, incompetent, and he took Bill Maher \u2018over the coals,’\u201d Trump said on Truth Social<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump chats with Bill Maher in happier times \u2014 outside the Emmys in Los Angeles in 2004. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cEither [Maher] didn\u2019t have the knowledge, or he choked, because Gavin went on and on about how good California is doing, while it\u2019s doing very poorly, having, by far, the worst year it\u2019s ever had where, for the first time in History, more people are leaving than coming,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Maher, who made his claim to fame as a liberal comedian, has lurched toward the center in recent years and prevoiusly voiced some skepticism over how California has been managed.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets the kid-glove treatment from Maher during a recent interview, according to President Trump. HBO<\/p>\n

During his interview with the Golden State governor, Maher delivered his version of grilling Newsom.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre they going to say good about gas prices? Are they going to say good about how high the rents are?\u201d Maher asked Newsom, referring to his California constituents. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole litany. I mean the train. Gavin, you got to get rid of the train.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cReal Time\u201d host, a California native, has long complained about the Golden State\u2019s sky-high taxes and burdensome regulatory regime.<\/p>\n

Trump has long had an up-and-down relationship with Maher. AP<\/p>\n

But Trump said Maher did little to rein in Newsom, who talked over him and extolled California.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Maher is a weak and ineffective person who I got to know very well during my dinner with him at the White House,\u201d Trump said in his lengthy Truth Social screed, referring to the pair\u2019s tet-a-tet last year. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was nervous, scared, and the first words he uttered as he entered the Oval Office were, \u2018Can I have a drink?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very endearing but, at the same time, absolutely pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and Maher got together through musician Kid Rock after an appearance the singer had on the comedian\u2019s \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

In response to the blistering Truth Social post, Newsom\u2019s sassy social-media account boasted that his interview with Maher caused a presidential \u201cmeltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump has blasted comedian Bill Maher for being \u201cdefenseless and totally deficient\u201d during his interview with California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[2184,544,1780,12,3146,542,51,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-55341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gavin-newsom","8":"tag-bill-maher","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-comedy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-fox-news","13":"tag-gavin-newsom","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116511906341129265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}