Gil Duran: How Donald Trump Rolled Bill Maher [View all]

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https://www.theframelab.org/how-donald-trump-rolled-bill-maher/

Very much worth reading in its entirety - so much so I can't decide what to excerpt, other than this:

This is not political clarity. It’s political naïveté masquerading as iconoclasm — or something worse.

For example: Back in 2018, Maher excoriated Geraldo Rivera for saying that Trump seems like a different person in private:

Rivera, NewsNation correspondent-at-large, was criticized when he appeared on “Real Time with Bill Maher” in 2018 and told Maher the Republican president can be friendly and warm in private.

“Who gives a (expletive),” Maher, a longtime Trump critic, shot back at Rivera then. “He’s running the world now. What does that matter that he was nice to you at Thanksgiving?”