More than a decade after he processed comedian Bill Maher for $5 million for joking that he was the son of an orangutan, donald trump found a new reason to be furious with the late-night host.
“Bill Maher, the highly overrated ‘star’ of the show’s ratings-challenged, fake, loud, obnoxious laughs erupting from his set every few seconds, even when nothing funny was said (which happens most of the time! ), suffers from a terminal case of Trump Disorder Syndrome, sometimes called TDS,” Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend. “Republicans should stop using him as a point of reference, his show is dead!”
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The outrage appeared to be a reaction to Maher’s somewhat unexpected defense of the president Joe Biden on his HBO show Real time Friday night amidst a flood of deceptively edited texts “cheap fake” videos designed to emphasize your age.
In response to a video purporting to show Biden having some kind of accident at the D-Day celebration, Maher joked: “I mean, he might be number two in the polls, but he wasn’t pooping his pants.” And, referring to another video in which Biden supposedly “froze” on June 19 the presenter said: “Everyone is dancing and he is not. Good! He shouldn’t be dancing! He is 82 years old! You look like an idiot when you try to dance.”
Trump, who turned out to be a regular viewer of the often Republican-friendly late-night talk show, also probably didn’t like the prison rape joke Maher did following his felony conviction earlier this month.
And yet, all this didn’t stop Trump from sharing a clip out of context moments after this week Real time of former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo suggesting that the silence case would never have been brought against the former president if he had not been running for another term.
Trump conveniently left out the subsequent part of that discussion, when Maher and Cuomo agreed that the American people deserve to see him stand trial for “trying to overthrow the government of the United States.”
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