Bill Maher Wants to Save Thanksgiving (and Democrats)
'Real Time' host slams Mrs. Jimmy Kimmel for shunning MAGA Nation
There’s a reason Legacy Media outlets don’t regurgitate everything Bill Maher says in the grand Colbert mold.
Outlets like Deadline, The Wrap and Variety often repeat late-night yuks as if they’re breaking news items. When Stephen Colbert mocks President Donald Trump for the 568th time, it’s not news.
Or interesting. Yet the media reports it anyway.
Stephen Colbert opened his late-night show with a full troll impression, gravelly voice and all, to deliver a riddle aimed at Trump—and his cankles. https://t.co/H7DaAIofxq
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 19, 2025
The “Late Show” host said the Trump administration is starting to feel some heat. https://t.co/Vnt7VrWUGO
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 21, 2025
Stephen Colbert peddles crass jokes about Trump after Epstein email fallout: ‘We know he’s got a taste for politics’ https://t.co/A0pOfjgD0w
— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) November 18, 2025
Yet what Maher says, both on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and his “Club Random” podcast, often is.
Why?
He defies the progressive orthodoxy, for starters. He speaks his mind, one based on classical liberal values. That puts him in stark defiance of today’s Left and the media.
But we repeat ourselves…
So while most news outlets ignored or blandly reported how Jimmy Kimmel’s wife banned Trump voters from her life, especially family members, Maher did the opposite.
He called her out. And, in the process, struck a blow for a kinder, gentler Thanksgiving. Heck, he could just save the Democrats from themselves – if they’d listen to his advice.
To recap, Molly McNearney admitted earlier this month on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast that she held MAGA family members partially responsible for re-electing Donald Trump.
To Kimmel’s wife and his show’s co-head writer, it was a personal attack.
“It hurts me so much because of the personal relationship I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man … And to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family. I unfortunately … lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”
“When I see these terrible stories every day, I’m immediately mad at certain aunts, uncles, cousins who put him in power. And it’s really hard.”
Jimmy Kimmel’s wife on her Trump-voting family: “To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family… This is not just Republican versus Democrat for me anymore, it’s family values… I’m angry all the time…”pic.twitter.com/1gvWLcFEOG
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) November 9, 2025
Maher blasted McNearney, framing it as part of a larger, disturbing trend. Every year, the Left trots out a new reason why they can’t break bread with Trump-adjacent family members during the holidays.
That either involves “educating” them on why they’re wrong, or shutting them out entirely. The latter is the method “View” co-host Sunny Hostin embraces.
“[McNearney] says she’s lost relationships with relatives because she wrote them an email before the election with ten reasons why they shouldn’t vote for Trump, and some still didn’t obey, so you know,” Maher said, clicking and gesturing a slicing motion across his neck.
“Ten reasons? I can think of 100. But I would never present it to someone as an ultimatum,” he continued. “Ultimatums don’t make people rethink their politics. They make them rethink you.”
“Write a top ten list to yourself where you try to imagine ten reasons why 77 million Americans didn’t want to trust you with taking power, and I say that as someone who votes Democratic. As I like to remind my very pure friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost.”
Maher practiced what he preaches at the highest level earlier this year. He broke bread with President Trump, eager to meet the man he excoriates on a weekly basis.
And, apparently, he’s open to doing it again.
Maher also took time this week to mock a fellow comedian who attacked the “Real Time” host for having dinner with the sitting president.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator Larry David penned a blistering op-ed in The New York Times suggesting Maher was a Nazi for dining with Trump. Maher let David have it recently.
Larry David spoofed Bill Maher‘s glowing review of his White House dinner with Donald Trump with a satirical essay in The New York Times entitled, “My Dinner With Adolf”:
“Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private… pic.twitter.com/7qevaZDq9c
— Variety (@Variety) April 22, 2025
The piece, entitled “My Dinner with Adolf,” echoed many of the Left’s views regarding the president. In the process, it excoriated Maher for daring to meet with the world leader.
Maher called David out on his Nov. 21 edition of “Real Time.” President Trump isn’t Hitler, he said. That’s “unhelpful and dumb” to say.
“Every year, I used to ask Larry David to do ‘Real Time,’ and he’d always say, ‘Bill, I can’t. I’m not smart enough about politics to do your show.’ Yeah, I get that now,” Maher said.
[Maher] went on to add, “What exactly is the argument? That by talking to Trump, I’ll elevate him? Oh, my God, don’t tell me he could become president!”
Be like Maher this Thanksgiving. Pass the gravy, not the baked-in ideology.