Bill Maher has slammed liberal fact-checkers at MSNBC for their ‘obsessive’ focus on President Trump’s lies and mistruths as he argued they make no difference.
The talk show host said he has grown ‘bored’ of watching pundits and experts calling out Trump’s lies, even as he admitted the president ‘said some things that were not exactly true. And when I say not exactly, I mean not at all.’
‘If you’re a conservative and you see him say many, many things that are not even close to true, you just don’t care anymore. This is so baked in the cake. That is who he is,’ Maher said.
He argued that even as Trump made statements that were verifiably false – such as his claim that the United States has spent ‘$350 billion’ on Ukraine aid when the number is closer to $115 billion – MAGA supporters are not concerned.
‘They do not take him literally or think he needs to be taken literally. It’s an amazing advantage in politics,’ Maher continued.
‘And if you’re a liberal watching MSNBC every day, you’re obsessed with this. And you’ve seen all these things where they exposed it.
‘I’m bored with that s***.’
The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House staffer-turned-critic, agreed as she declared that ‘rambling fact checks and going line by line through what he says – I don’t know that it matters.’
Bill Maher slammed liberal fact-checkers for their ‘obsessive’ focus on President Trump’s lies and mistruths, saying most Americans are so used to it people ‘just don’t care anymore’
Maher said that even as Trump made statements that could be fact-checked, his supporters ‘do not take him literally or think he needs to be taken literally. It’s an amazing advantage in politics’
Farah Griffin said that over eight years since he first ascended to the White House, she is now ‘not convinced Donald Trump is trying to pick up any new voters.’
‘All he needs to do is keep his approval rating with the Republican Party roughly where it is,’ she continued.
‘And to be honest, as much as that speech drove me crazy. A lot of people were really happy with it. He threw a lot of red meat to his base. He rattled off things that his voters love.
‘He gave them a lot of what he’s not trying to reach the other side because he doesn’t need to anymore.’
Maher added satirically that as he has grown weary of attempting to keep up with Trump’s mistruths, he has started to think of his statements in ‘dog years.’
‘I just take everything with a grain of salt. If he says Zelensky’s approval rating is 4 percent. It’s 57.2. It’s like, you know, dog years.
‘If somebody says the dog is four. Oh, the dog is 28.’
The comedian concluded that Trump ‘is not going to run again – wink, wink,’ in a nod to Trump’s teasing that he would want to stay in power beyond his constitutional two term limit.
The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin (sat beside former Montana Senator Jon Tester) agreed with Maher as she declared that ‘rambling fact checks and going line by line through what (Trump) says – I don’t know that it matters’
The remarks come as Maher, a frequent Trump critic, has taken to slamming Democrats following their election drubbing in November, warning that the party needs to urgently change course to return to power.
Earlier in his show with Farah Griffin and former Montana Senator Jon Tester, Maher slammed the previous weekend’s Oscars ceremony and said it was symbolic of how wokeness drives away everyday voters.
Maher offered up Julianne Hough’s opening announcement during Sunday’s Academy Awards broadcast, viewed by almost 20 million people in the US alone, as a prime example.
Hough started the show with an acknowledgment that paid homage to the Native Americans who once lived on the land where Hollywood now stands.
‘We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples, the traditional caretakers of this water and land,’ Hough declared.
But Maher was quick to ridicule the gesture, saying, ‘I don’t know if we’re still saying «cringe,» but if we are, that’s this.’
He then delivered his signature no-holds-barred critique, blasting Hollywood’s self-congratulatory activism as hollow and hypocritical.
‘I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again—either give the land back or shut the f*** up!’
