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Bill Maher Mocks Trump’s Bizarre Convention Pledge of Allegiance
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In Short: Comedian Bill Maher mocked President Donald Trump’s unusual request for supporters to recite a new version of the Pledge of Allegiance during the Republican midterm convention in Dallas.
Comedian Bill Maher mocked President Donald Trump’s bizarre version of the Pledge of Allegiance, which he had supporters recite during the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday. Maher, a longtime Trump critic, appeared stunned by the moment during his Friday night monologue, reading aloud the words Trump had instructed supporters to repeat. 'I got nothing anymore,' Maher said after finishing the passage.
During the convention, Trump made everybody put their hand up and do a new pledge of allegiance, a moment that Maher found particularly absurd. 'You go to hell, and I don't want that to happen to you,' Trump warned supporters after the pledge, according to reports.
Maher has a long record of criticizing Trump on television, but the moment at the convention stood out as particularly bizarre. 'This really happened this week in America, which used to be a real country,' Maher said, referencing the pledge and Trump's warning.
Earlier in the week, British members of Parliament voted against a bill to legalize assisted suicide, bringing a two-year debate to an end. Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool argued that the response to those facing serious illness should be rooted in solidarity, care, and respect.
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- The bill, originally sponsored by Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Kim Leadbeater, proposed to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales for people with a prognosis of six months or less to live.
- Previously, the House of Commons passed the bill in 2024.
- Members again passed the bill in June 2025, and the House of Lords did not complete action on it before the session ended in April.
- Lauren Edwards of the Labour Party then reintroduced the bill in June.
- Ahead of the vote, Archbishop Richard Moth, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, called on the faithful to write to lawmakers to petition against the bill, calling it “wrong in principle.” “It is also deeply flawed and, if passed, could lead to vulnerable people feeling pressured into ending their lives,” he said.
- On Wednesday, Labour member of Parliament Lauren Edwards reintroduced the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which failed to pass the House of Lords in April.
- “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States that loves us so much he can't even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it anyway — I don't care if I'm registered or not. I'm going to try and cheat like hell, like they do,” Maher said.
- The two had dinner at the White House in March 2025, after which Maher said the president had been “gracious and measured” and far different from the “crazy” man he sees on television.
Sources
- The Independentlink