Valuetainment - April 15, 2025


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


Episode Stats

Length

11 minutes

Words per Minute

198.62871

Word Count

2,221

Sentence Count

223

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

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.
00:02:18.320 People who are saying he's been red-pilled are stupid.
00:02:22.000 People who are saying he just wants to be seen a certain way don't know him.
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%.
00:02:37.020 And tonight, I got Geraldo coming on who thinks he's a hypocrite.
00:02:44.340 And look, I love Geraldo.
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.
00:03:52.960 That's his answer.
00:03:53.820 Especially with illegals.
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.
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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