Bill Maher may have softened on Trump after a White House dinner, but on Friday’s Real Time, he snapped back to reality — and straight into disbelief over how Trump brushes off the damage his policies are doing to the U.S. economy.
Maher summed it up with brutal sarcasm: Trump seems to be running on “let’s make Christmas worse for children.”
He kicked off the monologue by reminding viewers it’s “Cinco de Mayo weekend. Yes, Cinco de Mayo, or as the Trump administration calls it, May 5.”
Even though Trump doesn’t drink, Maher joked, “he wanted to spend the day with something that had a worm, so he asked in RFK.”
That led to a takedown of the latest nonsense coming from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who’s apparently embracing the conspiracy that “chemtrails” are real. Yes — really.
After trying to debunk the absurdity, Maher gave up. “Oh, f**k it. I don’t give a s**t anyway. If that makes you happy. I mean…”
Then came the numbers — and the burn. Trump’s poll numbers are tanking, and Maher compared it to America crawling back to a toxic ex: “like America remarried their ex and remembered why they got divorced in the first place.”
Maher didn’t stop there: “The S&P 500, down 7% since Trump took office. The value of the dollar is off 10%. The economy has shrunk for the first time in three years. Consumer confidence is down for the first time in five years. Kind of a high price for getting back plastic straws.”
He blamed Trump’s tariffs, warning they could wreck U.S. retail. “They say, soon the shelves at Walmart could be 90% bare, just like the people who shop there.”
And Trump? He’s not exactly offering comfort. When asked about holiday shopping — since 80% of toys come from China — Maher said Trump responded: “‘well, maybe the children this year will get two dolls instead of 30, and maybe they’ll cost more,’ right? So there’s less on the shelf and it costs more. What’s your problem? People just, just imagine you live at the airport.”
“Imagine running on ‘let’s make Christmas worse for children,’” Maher said, before delivering one last jab: “He is also opening a new Trump-branded store called ‘Toys ‘R Sus.’”
You can watch the full monologue above.
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