Valuetainment - April 15, 2025


“Maher Meets Trump” – INSIDE Bill Maher's WILD Dinner With Trump, Dana White & Kid Rock

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Cigar Lounge podcast
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
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Donald Trump Bill Maher Geraldo Patrick Vinny Chris Future Looks Grim Tom Ellsworth Cigar Lounge Tom Holman Kash Patel Bill Dudd Elon Musk Ted Cruz Clinton Reagan Chuck Obama Dylan Dana and 5 more
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Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

198.63

Word count

2,221

Sentence count

238

Harmful content

Toxicity

7

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Hate speech

2

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Bill Maher is a hypocrite, Geraldo Rivera thinks he's a liberal, and Chris Hardwick thinks Bill Maher should have been fired for going to the White House with Donald Trump. Plus, Chris and Rob are joined by comedian Dana Bash to discuss it all.

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00:00:00.000 You know, you were with Bill Maher.
00:00:01.840 You and him are doing a show together.
00:00:02.680 Speaking of guys who are doing it the right way.
00:00:04.360 Top of class.
00:00:05.340 You're with Bill Maher.
00:00:06.300 You're doing a show.
00:00:07.220 He had just had Kid Rock on.
00:00:09.000 Kid Rock invites him over to the White House.
00:00:12.080 You're asking him questions, going back and forth.
00:00:14.660 And then he goes on.
00:00:15.880 And then he says on April 11th or whatever the date was, you know,
00:00:18.680 I'm going to share with you guys what it was like to be at the White House.
00:00:21.720 Yeah.
00:00:21.900 Himself, Dana, Chuck, Kid Rock, and the president to have time together.
00:00:27.820 So this is his breakdown of what happened after the visit to the White House.
00:00:31.820 Rob, if you've got to go in and play the clip.
00:00:33.420 Just for starters, he laughs.
00:00:36.380 I've never seen him laugh in public.
00:00:38.540 But he does, including it himself.
00:00:40.620 And it's not fake.
00:00:41.760 Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.
00:00:47.120 And I thank you for that.
00:00:49.200 Example, in the Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents.
00:00:52.340 And he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness, you know,
00:00:56.780 the best thing about him, his hair.
00:01:03.440 I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing,
00:01:08.120 waiting for the button next to the Diet Coke button to get pushed
00:01:11.920 and I go through the trap door.
00:01:16.820 But no, he laughed.
00:01:18.340 He got it.
00:01:18.860 Look, I get it.
00:01:20.560 It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian.
00:01:23.720 It matters who he is on the world stage.
00:01:26.380 I'm just taking it as a positive that this person exists.
00:01:30.320 Because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God,
00:01:35.020 absent, at least on this night with this guy.
00:01:37.640 I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him.
00:01:40.640 And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama.
00:01:43.000 But I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.
00:01:48.460 That's just how it went down.
00:01:50.020 Make of it what you will.
00:01:51.800 Me, I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.
00:01:57.740 Amen.
00:01:58.800 Thoughts.
00:01:59.560 Truth bomb.
00:02:00.940 One, Bill Maher, top of class.
00:02:03.400 He did the right thing going.
00:02:06.940 And I agree with his description of President Trump 100%.
00:02:12.400 And people who say it was wrong for him to go see him, they're the problem. 1.00
00:02:18.320 People who are saying he's been red-pilled are stupid. 1.00
00:02:22.000 People who are saying he just wants to be seen a certain way don't know him. 1.00
00:02:26.780 The guy is 70 years old.
00:02:29.420 He's a made man.
00:02:31.040 He needs nothing.
00:02:31.820 He did this because he thought it was the right thing to do.
00:02:35.100 And I agree with him 100%. 0.99
00:02:37.020 And tonight, I got Geraldo coming on who thinks he's a hypocrite. 0.98
00:02:44.340 And look, I love Geraldo. 0.98
00:02:47.460 Okay?
00:02:48.040 So this is my guy.
00:02:50.180 Tonight, we're going to get a little spicy, though, because I don't agree.
00:02:55.260 I don't agree.
00:02:56.300 Geraldo?
00:02:57.480 Yeah, I don't agree with him.
00:02:58.700 I think that what Bill Dudd was right.
00:03:00.580 I think what he did was right.
00:03:03.440 And I think we got to defend it because we need so much more of it.
00:03:08.800 You can say, Trump, I don't like that you're doing this.
00:03:11.760 I don't like you doing this.
00:03:12.520 I don't like how you talk to him.
00:03:14.200 I don't like it.
00:03:14.600 But I don't have to hate you.
00:03:17.440 And Trump is like, I don't have to tell you guys.
00:03:19.460 You know him.
00:03:20.040 Well, you asked Geraldo how he went four years at Fox loving Trump while he was there.
00:03:24.820 And then he leaves.
00:03:25.540 And now, all of a sudden, he hates Trump since he's changed his opinion.
00:03:29.840 But he's known him since 25 years.
00:03:30.980 Yes.
00:03:31.340 He would say, I don't hate Trump.
00:03:33.360 I miss my friendship with him.
00:03:35.480 I couldn't stay with him after January 6th.
00:03:38.500 Trump hasn't changed any of his policies, Chris.
00:03:40.940 I mean, he's literally been closed the border, build a wall, close the border, deport illegals since he walked since 2015.
00:03:45.840 January 6th and how you talk about Latinos is too much for Geraldo, who is a Latino. 0.71
00:03:52.960 That's his answer.
00:03:53.820 Especially with illegals. 0.99
00:03:54.800 That's very convenient.
00:03:55.720 No, big time.
00:03:56.460 That's very convenient to choose January 6th because it happened after the first term of Trump where he was all in when he was at Fox.
00:04:03.280 I will contend that Geraldo loves the little red dot above a camera when it's on him.
00:04:08.860 And he'll pretty much deliver whatever the people who are watching on the other side of that camera are looking for.
00:04:14.900 And in your case, they want more Trump bashing or Trump derangement.
00:04:20.280 My audience does not want more Trump bashing.
00:04:22.700 My audience at News Nation is ridiculously centrist and oversampled independent.
00:04:28.740 And I see in the ratings that as soon as anything starts to sniff inauthentic or gratuitous, we tank.
00:04:38.600 People want to see things tested and clarified and get a reset on the show of what would be better than this.
00:04:49.640 Now, look, I love Geraldo.
00:04:51.460 But tonight, I disagree with him.
00:04:53.420 We need so much more of what Bill did.
00:04:55.100 Now, what happens is somebody says to me, oh, so you'd go see Trump?
00:05:00.400 Look, no, I wasn't going to go to Mar-a-Lago when Morning Joe went down there for the same reason that I wasn't going to go with Tom Holman after Dr. Phil went and became an extension of the operation.
00:05:15.000 I kneel for no one.
00:05:17.440 OK, I do that never for anybody in any situation.
00:05:22.260 And would I go to the White House?
00:05:25.860 Yeah, I'd go to the White House.
00:05:27.280 Would I speak to the president?
00:05:28.920 Yeah, I'd speak to the president.
00:05:30.240 Did I call him when people tried to kill him?
00:05:33.800 Yeah.
00:05:34.540 Why?
00:05:35.400 Because I don't want to see anything bad happen to him because he's a father and a grandfather and I care about his family.
00:05:43.440 And I don't have to like what he's doing.
00:05:45.800 So I have no problem with what Bill did.
00:05:48.880 It is part of the solution.
00:05:50.520 What do you think about what Bill said after going to the White House?
00:05:54.280 I think it just shows that everything that people because I mind you, I saw clips of him like taking Trump out of context multiple, multiple times as if Trump wasn't going to go back.
00:06:03.660 And the fighting's happening.
00:06:04.520 I'm stepping back as a comedian going, when in the history of America could a rock and roll guy, Kid Rock, be having dinner with somebody and go, you know what?
00:06:15.260 I think you should meet the president of the United States.
00:06:16.880 And it happens like that.
00:06:18.020 And Bill Maher, who is, quote unquote, a comedian.
00:06:20.420 I mean, he has God knows how many writers writing his stuff for his show.
00:06:24.060 But I think it's amazing that Trump has that much access.
00:06:28.600 We're at freaking UFC this weekend.
00:06:30.300 And I look at Pat and I'm like, Pat, first of all, thank you.
00:06:33.200 I'm standing there and Kash Patel comes in.
00:06:37.520 Elon Musk with X.
00:06:39.480 There's Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Ted Cruz.
00:06:43.260 Everybody, the accessibility to this guy, to get close to a guy, to have, like you said, Chris, you have a problem?
00:06:49.340 He brought the guy into the White House and sat down and said, you know, talk to me, talk to me.
00:06:53.100 For him to take somebody that's the most, one of the most far out Trump-hating TDS guys, and now he's brought him to where he's like, oh, he's actually not what I really thought.
00:07:03.320 He disagrees, which you have to, like, I want that all the time.
00:07:07.040 If you don't like the policy, say, but I think it's amazing that that's going to show, because you know Bill Maher's going to lose, like, fans.
00:07:13.880 He's, I'm pretty sure people are unsubscribing and not watching that anymore, because he said, you're a traitor and you're going to the opposite side.
00:07:21.260 I think what he did was freaking amazing.
00:07:23.000 I still have a lot of disagreements with Bill Maher, but I think it was great. 0.95
00:07:26.880 I think it's making the country, for all the people that were, like, hating, now understanding that he's a freaking human being.
00:07:32.720 You know what my concern was when we went to the White House?
00:07:36.820 Let me see if I have this or not.
00:07:37.920 If I have it, you guys got to see it.
00:07:39.400 To the White House?
00:07:40.080 You know, not to the White House.
00:07:41.100 When we went to, what do you call it?
00:07:42.600 UFC?
00:07:43.240 UFC.
00:07:44.240 So, somebody sends a picture.
00:07:46.380 Rob, I got to send this to you.
00:07:47.500 Can you pull this up?
00:07:48.820 They sent a picture of, Rob, I don't know if you got it or not.
00:07:51.500 Oh, I just got it.
00:07:52.780 Us with Trump?
00:07:53.720 Yeah, so they send this, and I don't know why they did this to Tom.
00:07:58.080 Okay.
00:07:58.520 So, this is, like, the design, the graphic design, creative.
00:08:02.300 Rob, you got to pull this up.
00:08:03.320 I mean, that's a pretty impressive, you know, depiction of Tom Ellsworth.
00:08:07.040 Tom, you got to send this to your, you got to send, Kemp, she's got to watch this.
00:08:12.500 Go ahead and put that picture up, Rob.
00:08:13.640 Look at Tom to the left.
00:08:15.760 Tom's over and left.
00:08:16.760 Look at Tom to the left.
00:08:18.360 Wow.
00:08:19.260 Legit.
00:08:19.800 I'm like, all juiced.
00:08:20.760 Why'd they change my shirt to Future Looks Grim?
00:08:22.900 Sponsored by TRT.
00:08:24.640 The only guy who's even close to accurate in that is Dylan.
00:08:28.280 Dylan?
00:08:28.640 Yeah.
00:08:28.780 That's Patrick.
00:08:31.480 That's Patrick.
00:08:32.000 That's the oldest.
00:08:32.660 Yeah.
00:08:33.100 Oh, that's Patrick.
00:08:33.560 Trump looks like Guile from Street Fighter 2.
00:08:35.820 Trump does look like Guile.
00:08:37.100 Look at Vinny.
00:08:38.100 But, by the way, you did not even have, Tico to me goes and says, the only question I got
00:08:42.560 is, why do they have Vinny with a beard?
00:08:44.080 He doesn't have a beard.
00:08:45.120 He shaved.
00:08:45.260 Yeah, that's weird.
00:08:46.300 Go back to that one right there.
00:08:46.840 Go back to the regular one, Rob.
00:08:47.680 Vinny always has a beard.
00:08:49.220 Yeah, I've been trying to be, by the way, I was going to be in front of the president.
00:08:52.200 I heard he's not a big beard.
00:08:53.480 Vinny made you very white in that picture, by the way.
00:08:55.580 Apparently, I'm from Mississippi.
00:08:56.760 I know.
00:08:57.480 They anglicized you.
00:08:58.840 You've arrived.
00:08:59.660 You're an American now.
00:09:00.720 Rob, can you go to the original one?
00:09:01.840 Rob, can you show them the original one right there?
00:09:03.440 No more H-1B visas.
00:09:04.600 Look at that.
00:09:06.220 Dude, I've never smiled that hard in my life for no reason.
00:09:08.960 The bartender in the back is looking at him.
00:09:10.420 He's so funny.
00:09:11.060 He's so funny.
00:09:11.680 The president's just so funny.
00:09:13.200 No matter when you're around him, naturally, he's always got a sense of humor.
00:09:17.320 A lot of you have been asking about the Cigar Lounge, that you want to come to it.
00:09:21.040 And we've been having back-to-back-to-back.
00:09:22.960 This last Friday was the biggest event we ever had at the Cigar Lounge, which was fantastic.
00:09:28.080 However, grand opening is this Thursday night.
00:09:30.780 This Thursday night.
00:09:31.980 And this is what we're doing.
00:09:32.920 Thursday, we're not doing a podcast in the morning.
00:09:35.640 Thursday, we're doing a live podcast at our comedy club, at Cigar Lounge, $59.90 live.
00:09:41.180 Tickets are being sold.
00:09:42.100 It'll be myself, Vinny, Tom, and Adam.
00:09:44.640 Live audience, come on down.
00:09:46.440 Bar opens at 6.
00:09:47.760 If you get there at 6 p.m., you buy tickets.
00:09:50.500 No matter whether you buy the regular ticket, the general, the premium, or VIP, if you get
00:09:55.100 the ticket and you're there early, we're going to give private tours of the Cigar Lounge
00:09:58.460 and then bring you back in the room.
00:10:00.000 And the podcast will start at 7 p.m.
00:10:01.960 It's going to be a skeptic.
00:10:02.860 I mean, it's going to be, if you've been to it before, it's a spectacle.
00:10:05.780 It's incredible.
00:10:06.600 The energy, the vibe, the announcements, different things that we do on a lot of people networking
00:10:10.240 together.
00:10:10.760 But that's the QR code.
00:10:12.800 The website, Rob, if we can give them the website so some of the folks on Spotify can
00:10:16.080 go to it as well.
00:10:17.320 I believe it's boardroomcigarlounge.com.
00:10:22.140 Boardroomcigarlounge.com.
00:10:23.500 Go a little bit lower so it gives the details.
00:10:25.920 You'll get the tickets.
00:10:26.860 So go lower, Rob, lower, lower for the tickets.
00:10:28.720 There's general premium VIP, $100, $250, $500.
00:10:32.140 VIP, you get a chance to actually go afterwards to the Cigar Lounge and we'll be with you guys.
00:10:36.300 And we're doing it Thursday instead of Friday because Friday is Good Friday.
00:10:38.900 So Thursday we'll celebrate it together.
00:10:40.840 Come on down, bring a friend, network, join the rest of us.
00:10:44.480 We'll have a good time.
00:10:45.120 If you've been to it before, typically the people that have been to it before, they know
00:10:48.600 VIPs sell out immediately.
00:10:50.100 This year we have fewer VIPs because platinum members get first on those seats.
00:10:55.560 So if you want to have a VIP seat, hurry up and place your order and we'll see you guys
00:10:58.720 Thursday night.
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00:11:08.900 Bye.
00:11:09.900 Bye.