Trump to face off with one of his biggest liberal critics as Kid Rock brokers White House summit
Donald Trump is set to meet with Bill Maher after a decades-long feud with the liberal comedian in a summit brokered by mutual friend Kid Rock at the White House.
Maher has long insulted Trump even before his formal entry into politics, with a lawsuit launched by the president in 2013 over claims made by the comedian that Trump’s father was an orangutan.
As recently as late 2024, Trump ranted against Maher as a ‘befuddled mess, sloppy and tired.’
However, Kid Rock appears to be attempting to make peace or at least a meeting between the two.
Maher told fellow comic Andrew Schultz on an episode of his podcast Club Random set to debut Sunday that the meeting is happening.
‘Kid Rock was here a couple of weeks ago, and he said, ‘I want you to meet Trump.’ He said, ‘I’m gonna take you to the White House.’ So now we’re gonna do that,’ Maher said.
The 54-year-old musician – real name Bob Ritchie – announced he was going to take Maher, a longtime friend, for a visit on Glenn Beck’s show recently.
‘I’m actually going to try and unite this country and I’m starting at the end of the month I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner,’ he said.
Donald Trump is set to meet with Bill Maher after a decades-long feud with the liberal comedian in a summit brokered by mutual friend Kid Rock at the White House
Maher has long insulted Trump even before his formal entry into politics, with a lawsuit launched by the president in 2013 over claims made by the comedian that Trump’s father was an orangutan
‘This guy who has done nothing but talk smack about the president since day one,’ he said.
The ‘Picture’ crooner says he wants the meeting to send a message of ‘unity’ to Americans.
Schultz asked Maher on the podcast whether he worried about liberal criticism over meeting with Trump.
‘There will be lots of people on the left who will be like, ‘How dare you talk to this man.’ It’s like ‘fuck you, I’m not playing this game that you mean girls play,” he said.
‘Oh, you know what? You can’t sit at my lunch table, because I’m just not talking to you.’ Not talking to you? You lost the election. Who the fuck do you think you have to talk to?’
DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.
The HBO host has long been critical of Trump’s policies though he is often equally outraged by ‘woke’ excesses of liberals.
He even recently expressed support for Trump’s decision to get rid of the Department of Education.
Kid Rock appears to be attempting to make peace or at least a meeting between the two
The 54-year-old musician – real name Bob Ritchie – announced he was going to take Maher, a longtime friend, for a visit on Glenn Beck’s show recently
However, Maher ripped into a Trump supporter guest on his show as he pressed her to admit the first seven weeks of his second term have ‘gone really badly.’
The talk show host got into the fiery argument with journalist and author Batya Ungar-Sargon on his Friday night show, saying her fervent support for Trump ‘makes no sense.’
‘We don’t have time to f*** around, I’ve got to go right at you,’ Maher said to Ungar-Sargon as he began the panel segment of his show.
‘When I first read you, you were a conservative Republican, but not crazy,’ he said.
‘Like I read you in Newsweek, Time magazine, and I’m not saying you’re crazy now, but you went from just a conservative leaning right to a Trump supporter, someplace I would never go.’
Ungar-Sargon responded, ‘the night is young, Bill’, to which he said: ‘It is not ever going to be that young.
‘And I’m just wondering what you think now,’ Maher continued. ‘We’re approaching two months in.
‘I mean, you must have a feeling in your gut, look me in the eye and tell me you don’t (think) that this is really going badly, and I shouldn’t have thrown my lot in with this team.’
Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, responded to Maher’s taunt that she felt ‘the opposite.’
‘I feel proud,’ she said. ‘I was never a Republican or a conservative. I was a leftist and I am still a leftist. I’m just a MAGA leftist now.’
‘That makes no sense,’ Maher countered.
Maher has only interviewed a sitting president once, when Barack Obama sat down on his show in 2016.
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