Most Shocking Moments Out of Bill Maher’s Dinner with Trump, Including Orangutan Lawsuit Talk, 2020 Admission, and Autographed Insults

 
Wildest Moments From Trump Maher Meeting

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Bill Maher detailed his White House meeting with President Donald Trump and the oddball pairing did not disappoint with plenty of wild moments including the president signing a list of “insulting epithets” thrown Maher’s way.

On Friday’s Real Time, Maher spent more than 12 minutes providing a “book report” of his meeting with Trump, which was set up by Kid Rock after a recent appearance on Maher’s Club Random podcast.

Maher and Trump have a checkered history, which became a topic of conversation, but Maher praised the president as “gracious” and “measured” during their dinner.

Here are five of the wildest moments that came out of Trump breaking bread with one of his most vocal critics.

MAHER HAS TRUMP SIGN LIST OF DOZENS OF INSULTS

Maher revealed he had his staff print off a list of insults Trump has thrown at the comedian over the years, which includes him calling Maher “stone cold crazy,” “really dumb,” and a “sleazebag.” Maher revealed he brought the list with him and Trump autographed it with “good humor.”

“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened,” he said. “You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a fuck.”

TRUMP SHOCKS MAHER BY ADMITTING HE ‘LOST’ 2020

Maher said he was shocked at one point during a tour of the White House to hear Trump admit he “lost” the 2020 presidential election despite his continued insistence of widespread fraud.

“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something to do with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that. He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public,” Maher said.

TRUMP CONFRONTS MAHER ABOUT CALLING HIS FATHER AN ORANGUTAN

During their dinner, a lawsuit Trump filed against Maher got brought up. The suit was withdrawn in 2013, but stemmed from Maher joking that Trump was the son of an orangutan. The insult, the comedian said, was in response to Trump sharing conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama not being a United States citizen.

“He was even okay when I checked him on the orangutan lawsuit. He was. He said to Dana White, ‘you know, Bill said my father was an orangutan, and I really love my father.’ And I said, ‘well, Mr. President, I did that because I didn’t like what you were doing in regards to Obama’s birth origins. I thought that was low.’ Again, no anger. Just a little smile as if to say, ‘yeah, I get it,'” Maher said.

TRUMP ASKS MAHER FOR ADVICE ON IRAN

The president at one point asked Maher for his perspective on nuclear negotiations with Iran. U.S. officials are meeting with Iranian officials on Saturday and Trump has insisted they must agree to never have a nuclear weapon or a “military” option could be on the table.

Maher told Trump he was wrong to exit a nuclear deal put together under Obama’s watch. It was one of several points Maher pushed back on during the meeting.

“For what it’s worth, I thought the Obama deal was worth playing out because we made Iran destroy 98% of the uranium and they were 15 years away from a bomb. And then I said to him, ‘but we got rid of that, you got rid of that.’ He didn’t get mad or call me a left-wing lunatic. He took it in,” he said.

MAHER AND TRUMP DEBATE DOGS AND REAGAN’S HAIR

Another example Maher used to argued Trump is more “measured” privately than in front of cameras was a small debate the pair had over late President Ronald Reagan’s hair and Trump not having a dog.

During their tour, Trump pointed to a portrait of Reagan and told Maher the “best thing” about him was his “hair.”

“I said, ‘well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing.’ I was waiting for the Diet Coke button to be pushed and I go through the trap door, but no, he laughed. He got it,” Maher said.

The comedian also brought up Trump not owning a dog like past presidents and recalled shooting Trump down when he claimed politicians have dogs for “political reasons.”

“He said, ‘well, a lot of the presidents, they had dogs for political reasons.’ I said, ‘no, people love dogs, that’s all it is.’ [Trump said], ‘oh yeah, okay, that’s true,'” Maher recalled. “I’m telling you it happened!”

Watch the moments above via HBO.

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.