Democrats and the media have spent the last week going into convulsions over Trump’s recent comments about Iran ‘taking out’ the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego. They completely twisted his meaning and everyone knows it, even Bill Maher.
On his show on Friday night, Maher called out the Democrats for doing this and even took a completely justified dig at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the process.
It was a pretty funny line, too.
The liberal Daily Beast is very upset that Maher is defending Trump:
Bill Maher, 70, Defends Trump Comments About Bombing L.A.
Bill Maher has defended President Donald Trump’s incendiary suggestion that Iran could “take out Los Angeles.”
Trump defended higher gas prices this week as a “small price to pay” for keeping Americans safe, then said, “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” Outrage ensued, while Trump insisted he was invoking the cities as examples of what a nuclear-armed Iran could attack, saying higher fuel costs were preferable to destruction.
Maher corroborated Trump’s defense on his Friday show, saying, “Let’s be fair.” He said the “small price” the president meant was high gas prices.
“He wasn’t saying that we were encouraging Iran,” Maher said, defending the president. “But still, you don’t want to say that to people in this city. We live here.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was among the California Democrats who called Trump’s slopiness out. She called the remarks horrifying and “egregious,” saying the president should not treat major American cities as expendable.
Maher, 70, ribbed Bass over her response, saying, “She immediately got on the phone with her travel agent.” That appears to refer to her trip to Ghana during the devastating January 2025 Los Angeles fires.
Here’s the video:
HBO’s Bill Maher called out those who framed Trump’s rally comments as him wanting LA and San Diego to be bombed: “He was saying gas prices are too high, it’s a small price. He wasn’t saying that, that we were encouraging Iran…”
Maher even got a Karen Bass joke in: “Karen… pic.twitter.com/7XG6mjG2Qv
— Nick (@nspin310) October 10, 2026
Did you think we would ever see a time when Bill Maher is more fair and balanced than 99% of the media?
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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