President Trump unloaded a lengthy Truth Social attack on Bill Maher after their White House dinner, a reversal from his own post-dinner praise that left observers confused.
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted a marathon message on Truth Social ripping HBO host Bill Maher, days after hosting him at the White House for what Trump had described to reporters as a productive evening.
Fox News Digital reported that the post ran more than 1,300 words and, per CNN’s description carried in that coverage, was the longest Trump has ever sent. The White House, asked for comment, pointed back to the post itself. Maher did not immediately respond.
The whiplash is what fueled the online reaction. After the dinner earlier this month, their second sit-down, Trump told reporters Maher was “great” and called the evening “very informative.” The Truth Social message told a different story.
Trump opened by dismissing the host and the network in blunt terms.
In the Truth Social post, Trump wrote:
"Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement, But that’s all gone. It’s not 'HOT' anymore!"
He said he had agreed to meet after their first dinner and again for the latest one, but never agreed to appear on Maher’s program. Trump said Maher wants him on the show “DESPARATELY” and added, “It won’t happen.” He also said that when he has watched, the show “always ends with dishonesty, about me at least.”
The New York Post reported that the tirade also pushed back on Maher’s on-air shots at Trump’s standing with voters. Trump cited CNN polling figures he said showed 98 to 99 percent Republican support and cast himself as the most popular figure in the party’s history, his answer to Maher’s approval-rating jabs and jokes about the White House meal.
Trump used the post to correct what he cast as a inflated version of the night.
He wrote that Maher “looked like hell this time,” called him a “major POTHEAD,” and claimed the comedian “was drunk and had alcohol in his hand as he walked through the White House.” Singer Kid Rock and commentator Stephen A. Smith came along, Trump said. He rejected accounts of a four-hour meal:
"Overall, I thought it was a good meeting. It didn’t last four hours, it lasted two hours, maybe less, and everybody was happy. We have the timestamps. I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time."
Trump said Maher had invited himself, with producer Chuck LaBella and Kid Rock arguing in favor of the sit-down. LaBella, who works on Maher’s “Club Random” and has ties going back to Trump’s “Apprentice” years, was told through the post to stop calling so often with praise and requests to get together.
The closing message was final. Trump told Maher not to call anymore, labeled him a “coward” unwilling to admit how well the country is doing, and said he would never watch the show again, calling it “FAKE NEWS.”
"You’re not transformative, you’re a Loser! I never watched your show much, but I will never watch it again, because it is nothing more than FAKE NEWS that America, and the World, is unfortunately subjected to."
Before the Sunday post, Maher had publicly defended the meetings. In a Friday monologue, he answered critics of the White House outreach in raw language:
"You know what? F--- you. I like these dinners."
In other 2025 remarks, Maher said Trump was “gracious and measured” in person and added, “You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar.” He also said, “I’m just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high.”
That is the gap Trump highlighted. Private courtesy is one thing. The monologue is another. Trump’s post treated the on-air product as the real record, and said he was done with both the calls and the show.
Comedian Tim Young, a Heritage Foundation media fellow, told Fox News Digital he watched Maher’s show over the weekend and could not pinpoint what pushed Trump further than usual. Maher “always regularly criticizes Trump,” Young said.
His best guess: Trump may have watched a full episode because Karoline Leavitt was on and finally heard the volume of the shots in one sitting. “That’s the only thing I can think happened,” Young said. “The president was friendly and didn’t realize just how much Maher takes cracks at him because he has never seen a full episode until now.”
Whether that theory holds or not, the public sequence is plain. Trump hosted Maher, praised the dinner to reporters, then published a lengthy rejection of the host, the program, and further contact. Maher kept defending the dinners on air. Trump answered on Truth Social and shut the door.
Hollywood access is not a shield when the monologue stays hostile, and this time the president said so in writing, at length, for the record.
