Trump Calls Bill Maher a 'Befuddled Mess,' Stephanie Ruhle a 'Bimbo'
Sept. 22, 2024, 9:50 p.m.
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Former President Donald Trump shared a lengthy post on his social media platform, Truth Social, over the weekend, criticizing Bill Maher and his guests on the Sept. 20 episode of “Real Time”, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
On Friday night's episode of the late-night talk show, Maher, Ruhle, and Stephens discussed the former president’s recent assertion that if he doesn’t win the 2024 election , “the Jewish people would have a lot to do” with it. (Trump made this statement at a Washington, D.C. event on Thursday titled “Fighting Antisemitism in America.”)
“Whenever the autocrat starts blaming the Jews I think it’s a great sign because when has that ever turned out badly,” Maher quipped.
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Stephens, on the other hand, described Trump as “a really scary guy” and “antisemitic adjacent,” suggesting that “democracy is in danger whenever antisemitism surfaces.”
Trump wrote on Saturday on Truth Social , “The struggling-in-ratings Bill Maher, on his increasingly dull HBO show, is truly having a hard time managing his TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. He's a bewildered mess, sloppy and exhausted, and every conversation, with B and C list guests, seems to start with, or always returns to, ME!”
On “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Stephens stated that he would not vote for Trump but also hasn’t committed to Vice President Kamala Harris because her political stance is still unclear to him.
“Kamala Harris is not running to be perfect. She’s running against Trump,” Ruhle responded. “We have two choices. And there are some things you might not know her position on, but in 2024, unlike 2016 for many Americans, we know exactly what Trump will do, who he is and the kind of threat he poses to democracy.”
In his Truth Social post, Trump labeled Ruhle a “‘unintelligent’ person” and Stephens a “Trump-despising failure” who “seemed completely disoriented and unsure of himself, much like Maher himself.”
The former president continued by misspelling Stephens’ last name, writing, “Steven’s should look for another career path because I am driving the STRUGGLING New York Times absolutely crazy, and it is very difficult, perhaps impossible, for a writer to write positively about me without facing the anger of the biased editors who, with pressure from the top, have lost their minds.”
Trump added, “They apologized to their readers in 2016 for their complete and total MISCALCULATION, and they’ll do it again in November. The STRUGGLING New York Times is a poorly managed ‘newspaper’ that has completely lost its direction. Put it out of its misery!”
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