There’s a motive Legacy Media retailers don’t regurgitate every little thing Invoice Maher says within the grand Colbert mildew.
Retailers like Deadline, The Wrap and Selection usually repeat late-night yuks as in the event that they’re breaking information gadgets. When Stephen Colbert mocks President Donald Trump for the 568th time, it’s not information.
Or attention-grabbing. But the media reviews it anyway.
Stephen Colbert opened his late-night present with a full troll impression, gravelly voice and all, to ship a riddle geared toward Trump—and his cankles. https://t.co/H7DaAIofxq
— The Day by day Beast (@thedailybeast) November 19, 2025
The “Late Present” host mentioned the Trump administration is beginning to really feel some warmth. https://t.co/Vnt7VrWUGO
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 21, 2025
Stephen Colbert peddles crass jokes about Trump after Epstein electronic mail fallout: ‘We all know he’s obtained a style for politics’ https://t.co/A0pOfjgD0w
— Day by day Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) November 18, 2025
But what Maher says, each on “Actual Time with Invoice Maher” and his “Membership Random” podcast, usually is.
Why?
He defies the progressive orthodoxy, for starters. He speaks his thoughts, one based mostly on classical liberal values. That places him in stark defiance of at this time’s Left and the media.
However we repeat ourselves…
So whereas most information retailers ignored or blandly reported how Jimmy Kimmel’s spouse banned Trump voters from her life, particularly members of the family, Maher did the alternative.
He referred to as her out. And, within the course of, struck a blow for a kinder, gentler Thanksgiving. Heck, he may simply save the Democrats from themselves – in the event that they’d hearken to his recommendation.
To recap, Molly McNearney admitted earlier this month on the “We Can Do Onerous Issues” podcast that she held MAGA members of the family partially chargeable for re-electing Donald Trump.
To Kimmel’s spouse and his present’s co-head author, it was a private assault.
“It hurts me a lot due to the private relationship I now have the place my husband is on the market combating this man … And to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our household. I sadly … misplaced relationships with folks in my household due to it.”
“Once I see these horrible tales day-after-day, I’m instantly mad at sure aunts, uncles, cousins who put him in energy. And it’s actually arduous.”
Jimmy Kimmel’s spouse on her Trump-voting household: “To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our household… This isn’t simply Republican versus Democrat for me anymore, it’s household values… I’m offended on a regular basis…”pic.twitter.com/1gvWLcFEOG
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) November 9, 2025
Maher blasted McNearney, framing it as half of a bigger, disturbing pattern. Yearly, the Left trots out a brand new motive why they’ll’t break bread with Trump-adjacent members of the family in the course of the holidays.
That both includes “educating” them on why they’re improper, or shutting them out totally. The latter is the tactic “View” co-host Sunny Hostin embraces.
“[McNearney] says she’s misplaced relationships with family as a result of she wrote them an electronic mail earlier than the election with ten the reason why they shouldn’t vote for Trump, and a few nonetheless didn’t obey, so ,” Maher mentioned, clicking and gesturing a slicing movement throughout his neck.
“Ten causes? I can consider 100. However I might by no means current it to somebody as an ultimatum,” he continued. “Ultimatums don’t make folks rethink their politics. They make them rethink you.”
“Write a high ten record to your self the place you attempt to think about ten the reason why 77 million Individuals didn’t need to belief you with taking energy, and I say that as somebody who votes Democratic. As I prefer to remind my very pure associates, we voted for a similar individual. You’re simply why she misplaced.”
Maher practiced what he preaches on the highest stage earlier this 12 months. He broke bread with President Trump, keen to satisfy the person he excoriates on a weekly foundation.
And, apparently, he’s open to doing it once more.
Maher additionally took time this week to mock a fellow comic who attacked the “Actual Time” host for having dinner with the sitting president.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator Larry David penned a blistering op-ed in The New York Instances suggesting Maher was a Nazi for eating with Trump. Maher let David have it just lately.
Larry David spoofed Invoice Maher‘s glowing evaluate of his White Home dinner with Donald Trump with a satirical essay in The New York Instances entitled, “My Dinner With Adolf”:
“Right here I used to be, ready to satisfy Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the general public Hitler. However this personal… pic.twitter.com/7qevaZDq9c
— Selection (@Selection) April 22, 2025
The piece, entitled “My Dinner with Adolf,” echoed lots of the Left’s views concerning the president. Within the course of, it excoriated Maher for daring to satisfy with the world chief.
Maher referred to as David out on his Nov. 21 version of “Actual Time.” President Trump isn’t Hitler, he mentioned. That’s “unhelpful and dumb” to say.
“Yearly, I used to ask Larry David to do ‘Actual Time,’ and he’d at all times say, ‘Invoice, I can’t. I’m not good sufficient about politics to do your present.’ Yeah, I get that now,” Maher mentioned.
[Maher] went on so as to add, “What precisely is the argument? That by speaking to Trump, I’ll elevate him? Oh, my God, don’t inform me he may grow to be president!”
Be like Maher this Thanksgiving. Move the gravy, not the baked-in ideology.