Bill Maher rips lefts exclusionary attitude as Hamilton cancels shows at Trump-backed Kennedy Center

“Real Time” host Bill Maher slammed what he called the left’s “exclusionary attitude” when it came to the Kennedy Center before President Trump’s takeover of the iconic D.C.arts venue. During his “Overtime” segment on YouTube, Maher read a submitted question from a viewer asking for the panel’s reaction to the decision made by “Hamilton” producers Jeffrey Seller and Lin-Manuel Miranda to cancel shows that were scheduled for 2026 in response to Trump’s overhaul of the Kennedy Center board last month. While liberal critics, including Sellers and Miranda, accused Trump of politicizing the Kennedy Center, Maher suggested it was already politicized.“I will say this in defense of the other side on this one, because I watched the Kennedy Center Honors this year.

It was in December.It’s always in December.

I always watch it.And this year they honored Francis Ford Coppola and the Grateful Dead,” Maher said Friday. “Maybe I’m wrong, because I didn’t do an exhaustive study, but I was… watching the show, I did not see one person in the audience or one person on the stage who you would think voted for Donald Trump.

This is the last month of the Biden administration, and having just lost the election, I just thought, ‘You know what? Invite Ted Cruz,'” Maher continued. He added, “If this is supposed to be America, and we’re all together, and you just lost, invite some of the people who you wouldn’t suspect to be there.I’m sure Ted Cruz or somebody like that likes Francis Ford Coppola, everybody likes ‘The Godfather.’ I’m sure there are some Republicans who are Grateful Dead fans.

And it’s just like, ‘No.’ The mean girls were like, ‘No, it’s our last time.And this is what you get.'”“And now, you know, Kevin Sorbo will be winning the next Kennedy Center Honors,” he quipped. Fox News Digital reached out to the Kennedy Center for comment but did not immediately receive a response. “The View” co-ho...