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Trump Slams Maher as 'Complete and Total Loser' in 1,300-Word Post
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In Short: President Donald Trump unleashed a scathing 1,321-word diatribe on Truth Social on Sunday, October 26, calling comedian Bill Maher a 'complete and total loser.' The post came just nine days after Trump hosted Maher, Kid Rock, and Stephen A.
President Donald Trump unleashed a scathing 1,321-word diatribe on Truth Social on Sunday, October 26, calling comedian Bill Maher a 'complete and total loser.' The post came just nine days after Trump hosted Maher, Kid Rock, and Stephen A. Smith for dinner at the White House.
Trump's lengthy post was his longest social media statement on record, according to Factba.se, a searchable database that tracks Trump's public statements and social media activity. The post was nearly 86 percent longer than his previous record.
In the post, Trump accused Maher of using 'fake polls' to claim that Trump had his lowest ratings and that even the Republican Party did not like him. He also criticized Maher for his comments about Trump on his HBO show, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' and for questioning Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during her appearance on the show.
Trump's post was a sharp contrast to his earlier comments about the dinner, where he had described the event as a 'good time.' He praised Leavitt for her appearance on the show, despite what he called a 'biased, dumb sleazebag' asking questions.
Maher, who has a history of criticizing Trump, responded positively to the dinner, describing it as a 'thrilling' experience. He noted that they had a 'nice conversation' and that they did not act like enemies despite Trump's earlier claims.
The president also took aim at Maher's friend and business associate, Chuck LaBella, who had arranged the dinner. Trump accused LaBella of misrepresenting his standing among Republicans and urged him to cease contacting him.
Trump's post also included a dig at Maher's show, which he said he had watched 'not often' but found to be dishonest. He vowed never to watch the show again, calling it 'nothing more than FAKE NEWS that America, and the World, is unfortunately subjected to.'
The post concluded with Trump urging Maher to stop contacting him and suggested moving the press to a different location, citing the need for additional space.
Despite the heated exchange, Maher has continued to speak positively about his personal interactions with Trump, even as he has criticized the president politically.
What this adds
The post's length and content highlight the ongoing tension between Trump and Maher, despite their attempts to maintain a cordial relationship.
Factba.se's review of Trump's posts since 2011 underscores the unprecedented nature of this particular diatribe.
What's confirmed
- WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump launched a lengthy attack on comedian and HBO host Bill Maher on Sunday, October 26, calling him a “complete and total loser” and telling him not to contact him again after their recent White House dinner.
- Maher said his conversation with Trump had covered several contentious subjects, including immigration enforcement, Afghanistan, the Supreme Court and the 2020 presidential election.
What's still developing
- Maher then returned for a dinner at the White House on October 15, alongside Kid Rock and ESPN star Stephen A Smith, which Trump said he thought went well. 'After the first dinner, Bill Maher was friendly, I guess, everyone walked away pleased.
- It’s gotten really bad.' When he then went on to speak about the dinner, the comedian said: 'There is just something thrilling about being announced when you're in the White House, when you're outside the Oval Office, and you hear the aide say, "Sir, your 7 o’clock low-ratings dummy is here".' He continued: 'I mean, we talked about a lot of things.
- The scorching remarks came after Maher clapped back at his critics for the dinner, revealing that he actually enjoyed it.
- 'Bill Maher lied, but he lies about everything,' the president then claimed as he argued, 'People can’t think he’s funny.' At that point, the president brought up their dinner earlier this month, which was also attended by Kid Rock and ESPN star Stephen A Smith.
- Maher dined at the White House last year and later was complimentary to Trump, but the president later attacked the host and deemed the experience a “total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House.” In June, the Kennedy Center Board (which is appointed by the president) honored Maher with the Mark Twain Prize.
- Trump accused Maher of misrepresenting his standing among Republicans and cited figures he attributed to CNN polls, but provided no survey dates, links or methodology.
- Trump wrote that LaBella's requests for contact began before he became president and included invitations to appear on Maher's programme.
- “You’re not transformative, you’re a Loser!” he wrote.
- “[B]ecause of the success of that show, Number One and Top Rated on many weeks, with the Finale’ [sic] being among the Top Shows of the Year, he was automatically and quickly brought up through the Ranks of NBC, along with everyone else associated with that Historic ‘Happening,'” Trump wrote.
- Also on the show, Maher made a joke about Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran an ad featuring Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter “a liar.” Actor and Arthur reportedly have not been in touch since 1978, when Arthur’s second husband, Cledith Arthur, was indicted and charged with raping Actor, who was 12 at the time.
- Trump then turned his ire to producer Chuck LaBella, who’s worked with Maher for years across multiple productions, nothing that LaBella was a “gofer” on Trump’s reality competition show The Apprentice, and also a friend of Trump’s at the time.
- The public takedown was sparked by former press secretary Karoline Leavitt ’s Friday, October 23, appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, during which she discussed her former boss’ leadership style as well as her professional relationship with him while she served at the White House. (Leavitt, 29, held the role from January 2025 to August 2026, stepping down to spend increased time with her young family.) “Karoline Leavitt was great on the show, but she started with a biased, dumb sleazebag, asking questions,” argued the president.