Maher Ribs Trump over Falling Poll Numbers, America 250 Bash
Comedian Bill Maher ribbed President Trump on Friday over his dismal poll numbers and the blowback to a massive upcoming bash on the National Mall celebrating America's 250th birthday.
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Bill Maher is finally admitting his old pal Donald Trump may have badly bungled the Iran war he once cheered on.[image or embed] -- The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 3:40 PM · May 27, 2026
Bill Maher is finally admitting his old pal Donald Trump may have badly bungled the Iran war he once cheered on.[image or embed]
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... Trump's job approval rating slipped to a record low of 34 percent this week, according to a poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist, amid a deeply unpopular war with Iran that has strained the U.S. economy. A separate poll found that the president's support among white adults without college degrees -- a usually reliable group of voters for Trump -- is also falling. Trump had a +28 net approval rating among the group when his second term began but that slipped to -4 as of mid-May. "That was always his base. That's like Taco Bell losing stoners," Maher joked in the opening monologue of his HBO late-night show "Real Time with Bill Maher." "I mean, really, losing the non-college-educated white people? What does he have to do, stage UFC fights on the lawn? Oh, wait, we're doing that, I forgot. We actually are doing that. My bad," the host added. ...
A separate poll found that the president's support among white adults without college degrees -- a usually reliable group of voters for Trump -- is also falling. Trump had a +28 net approval rating among the group when his second term began but that slipped to -4 as of mid-May.
"That was always his base. That's like Taco Bell losing stoners," Maher joked in the opening monologue of his HBO late-night show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
"I mean, really, losing the non-college-educated white people? What does he have to do, stage UFC fights on the lawn? Oh, wait, we're doing that, I forgot. We actually are doing that. My bad," the host added. ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 02:03 PM | Reply
@#1 ... A separate poll found that the president's support among white adults without college degrees -- a usually reliable group of voters for Trump -- is also falling. Trump had a +28 net approval rating among the group when his second term began but that slipped to -4 as of mid-May.
"That was always his base. That's like Taco Bell losing stoners," Maher joked in the opening monologue of his HBO late-night show "Real Time with Bill Maher." ...
So, now, is Pres Trump going to try to take away HBO's ability to air its shows?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-30 09:43 PM | Reply
Bill Maher supports genocide. He's gonna have a hard time joking out of that one.
#3 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-05-30 10:11 PM | Reply
#3 - We get it... anyone who doesn't always hate Israel supports genocide. Just like anyone who doesn't always support Israel supports terrorism. Yawn.
#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-05-31 11:19 AM | Reply
Neither warm nor cold. Spit it out, moral relativist.
Somebody's got to be wrong.
Israel is the Usurpers.
They brought the Violence With Them.
Palestine pre 1948 was not the Horror it is today.
Blame isn't hard to ascribe if you just look at what's already happened.
Swastika Boi.
#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-05-31 12:19 PM | Reply
"anyone who doesn't always hate Israel supports genocide."
Depends.
Are Israel and Zionism just two words for the same thing?
#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-31 12:20 PM | Reply
"Somebody's got to be wrong."
There are many situations where both have legitimate grievances and both can be wrong in the way they react to them.
#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-05-31 01:32 PM | Reply
Another Zero Information Content statement.
Is this one of those situations?
#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-31 01:36 PM | Reply
The Snoofy alias still can't pass the Turing Test.
#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-05-31 02:05 PM | Reply
Bill is seeing the wind starting to blow in another direction and is resetting his sail. Mostly, it's Bill that blows.
#10 | Posted by morris at 2026-05-31 02:18 PM | Reply
I quit listening to that man when I realized he was shtooking Ann Coulter... so a looooong time ago.
#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-06-01 12:50 PM | Reply
"We get it..."
Are you using pluralis majestatis (the "royal WE') to speak for both you and your realm? Or are you just speaking on behalf of your other DR aliases?
#12 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-06-01 12:59 PM | Reply
#7 | Posted by sentinel
Yeah, anyone who says "someone has got to be wrong" is a hack.
I think Israel is more in the wrong here, but it comes from an unresolvable situation. Israel got formed out of stolen Palestinian lands. But the Israeli people who are there now were not the ones who did it, probably were not even born when it happened. So kicking them off the land would not be "fair" either.
At this point I don't know what the right thing to do is. And I don't think anybody else does either.
#13 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2026-06-01 03:32 PM | Reply
Trumpanzee and Bill Maher are two men afraid of getting old and irrelevant...
At first... Bill thought it a good idea to bomb the eff out of Iran... kill as many as it took... to put Iran out of business... or whatever it is they think it will accomplish... like its two smaller border nations neighbors to the east and west proved they could outlast the USA going "mano a mano" on the battlefield... and Iran somehow missed it happening to the east and west.
Ironic that the USA supported Iraq against Iran... only to later reunite them in a common cause against us. The USA also helped Afghanistan in a proxy war against Russia...they turned around and committed the first successful enemy strike on US soil in its history... killing over 3000 people with half a dozen box cutters and passenger planes... before 20 years later... telling us to ef off... again
Iran has better military capability and the Straight of Hormuz... Europeans aren't mad at Iran... they are angry with us...
We need to subject Israel to the same sorts of weapons inspection we demanded over Iraq and Iran... I mean... if we are determined to keep the ME nuke-free... make it all the ME... including that useless little "democracy"
IMO until such a time... why should the Arab nations comply? They have resource-filled countries to defend... Look what we're trying to do to Venezuela... a relatively defenseless country! BTW Venezuela is looking a lot like Afghanistan... in that we are ignoring it... while focusing on Iran... Trumpanzee claimed victory there... not unlike Bushturd2... all full of himself... when he said he was no longer worried about bin Laden because he was no longer a threat... Iraq was... hidden WMDs or capabilities... blah blah blah... and here we are again... looking for hidden things...
Trumpanzee went after the two OPEC nations that don't want to do business with the USA... Trumpanzee was trying to be a big man.. Bill Maher tried to help him justify it... for a paycheck.
#14 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-06-01 04:16 PM | Reply
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