{"id":2498697,"date":"2025-10-14T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-says-trump-is-a-success-and-slams-young-people-embracing-communism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:12:14","slug":"bill-maher-says-trump-is-a-success-and-slams-young-people-embracing-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-says-trump-is-a-success-and-slams-young-people-embracing-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher says Trump is a success and slams young people embracing communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-says-trump-is-a-success-and-slams-young-people-embracing-communism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2498697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Talk show host Bill Maher,on his recent *Club Random* podcast with actor William H. Macy, expressed that former President Donald Trump has been largely successful in his second term, despite Maher not supporting him. The discussion ranged from Maher&#8217;s admiration for Taylor Swift as a person, although he doesn&#8217;t personally understand her music, to political commentary. Maher emphasized the importance of acknowledging success regardless of personal opinions.the conversation also touched on the perspectives of older generations compared to youth today, with Maher criticizing some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cussing-cheerleader-prevails-in-student-speech-dispute-at-the-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Cussing Cheerleader Prevails in Student Speech Dispute at the Supreme Court\">young people&#8217;<\/a>s fascination with communism. He described communism as a &#8220;murderous nightmare&#8221; that crushes human spirit and argued that capitalism, despite its flaws, has been the most effective system in reducing extreme poverty worldwide.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bill Maher says Trump is a success and slams young people embracing communism<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2372230\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Talk show host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bill-maher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bill Maher<\/a> made several revelations on his most recent <em>Club Random<\/em> podcast,&nbsp;including that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has largely been successful in his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Maher made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=os_-k76Rwn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comments<\/a> during a conversation with his podcast guest, <em>Fargo<\/em> and <em>Shameless<\/em> actor William H. Macy, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>. Maher and Macy discussed music over the year, as well as the pop singer, when Maher admitted his fondness for Swift but lamented that he did not understand her music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3848687\/angel-studios-young-washington-movie-trailer-ahead-us-250th-birthday\/\">Angel Studios releases &#8216;Young Washington&#8217; biopic trailer ahead of US 250th birthday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3847223\/snl-parody-pam-bondi-hearing-amy-poehler\/\">SNL parodies Bondi hearing with &#8216;roast-style burns&#8217; from Amy Poehler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3839855\/abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here-in-whose-name-doumentary-review\/\">Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/os_-k76Rwn4?si=TjCI6QeA50LJKuZJ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think she&rsquo;s just an admirable human being, and I don&rsquo;t get the music,&rdquo; Maher bemoaned. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s all I&rsquo;ll say.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He recognized her successful run as a musician and then pivoted to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I always say this, you cannot ever deny success,&rdquo; Maher said. &ldquo;You just have to give your respect even if it&rsquo;s not your thing. Have the humility to give it up for enormous success on any level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump, not my choice, didn&rsquo;t vote for him, I can&rsquo;t deny the success,&rdquo; Maher added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t either,&rdquo; Macy said. &ldquo;And he&rsquo;s the president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They discussed a framed picture hanging on a wall in the studio that featured a list of the 56 insults Trump has called Maher over the years. The president autographed it when the two met in the White House earlier this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Did you give him that, and he signed it for you?&rdquo; Macy asked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Correct,&rdquo; Maher replied.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh, that&rsquo;s f***ing brilliant,&rdquo; Macy said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the show, the two discussed their age &mdash; Maher is 69, and Macy is 75 &mdash; and today&rsquo;s youth.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of the things I like about getting old is hearing the stupid things my young friends say,&rdquo; Macy said. &ldquo;It makes me feel so good.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Maher replied, &ldquo;It should, because you&rsquo;re right. Just because something is new doesn&rsquo;t make it automatically better, which is what they seem to think.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, a lot of the younger people are all excited about communism,&rdquo; Maher said. &ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s because you&rsquo;re dumb and you didn&rsquo;t study this. It&rsquo;s not all your fault. They just didn&rsquo;t teach it to you. But us older people know they tried it, and it was a f***ing nightmare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Macy responded, &ldquo;A nightmare, a murderous nightmare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3847423\/democrats-credit-trump-israel-gaza-peace-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEMOCRATS CREDIT TRUMP FOR ENDING ISRAEL&rsquo;S WAR IN GAZA: &lsquo;THIS WAS HIS DEAL&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Communism is a murderous, soul-sucking night[mare],&rdquo; Maher added. &ldquo;Even if they didn&rsquo;t kill you, your soul was just quashed. You couldn&rsquo;t get ahead. Everything was corrupt because it didn&rsquo;t conform to human nature. Humans are selfish. Capitalism, with all its problems, is by far the best system, and it has lifted the most people out of poverty than anything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-admits-trumps-a-success-slams-young-people-embracing-communism\/\" title=\"... admits ...\u2019s a ..., slams young ... embracing ...\">ve made amazing progress<\/a> with what they call extreme poverty, like <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >a-dollar-a-day people<\/a>,&rdquo; Maher said. &ldquo;Like just in the 25 years since this century began, that&rsquo;s been cut down to only a few percent, when it was like 15.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s very big progress,&rdquo; Maher said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Maher praises Trump&#8217;s success, criticizes youth for communism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2498698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23261615416996-scaled.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32100,5607,32319,32171,65193],"class_list":["post-2498697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bill-maher","tag-communism","tag-donald-trump","tag-political-commentary","tag-youth-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23261615416996-scaled.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498701,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498697\/revisions\/2498701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}