Bill Maher explains why hes rejecting calls to join the political right

“Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show Friday night by offering a blunt message to his conservative fans who ask why he hasn’t joined the political right as he rejects the left’s embrace of wokeness.“Let me give you the short answer: Because I don’t want to live in North Korea,” Maher told them.“Kim Jong-un has state stenographers who follow him everywhere and scribble his genius ideas into their notebooks and applaud.

Well, Republicans, that’s you now!”Maher listed examples of Republicans going to great lengths to honor President Donald Trump from pushing to rename Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport after him to a bill adding his face to Mount Rushmore.He also called out their embrace of Trump’s iconic dance and the group of supporters who dressed like Trump outside the courthouse during his hush money payment trial.He singled out Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as an example of Republicans talking like Trump “with the crazy, over-the-top exaggerations.”“And these bills they’ve introduced to make Trump’s birthday a holiday and put him on currency and Mount Rushmore- this is not what we do here, guys!” Maher exclaimed.

“He’s still in office for God’s sake.Can we see how it turns out before we put him on a stamp?”“If I admit that there is a level of Trump Derangement Syndrome on the left, will you admit that this s— is also deranged?” Maher asked.

“All the people on the right who say they certainly don’t agree with me on everything, but they respect the way I keep it real about the left and like me because I’m honest.Well, that’s a two-way street.

Are you being honest?”The HBO host suggested the people around Trump are too cowardly to correct him when he’s wrong, pointing to when Trump claimed during his address to Congress that DOGE found $8 million in federal funding that was allocated for “transgender mice,” insisting it was actually “transgenic mice” used for hormone t...