Trump rails against Bill Maher in his longest Truth Social post ever

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President Donald Trump has just penned his longest Truth Social post ever, according to a CNN analysis and a third-party tracking firm.

The topic of the president’s essay? Not the midterm election or the Middle East conflict. The post is about his complicated relationship with HBO comedian Bill Maher.

“Bill: Don’t call anymore,” Trump wrote toward the end of an emotional 1,323-word diatribe that started by calling Maher a “complete and total loser” in all caps.

The lengthy post also included some genuine news: Trump confirmed recent reports that he has considered evicting the reporters who cover him from the White House workspace that the press corps has used for decades.

“I am thinking about moving the Press, and putting them in a different location, but I will use that location for very badly needed space,” Trump wrote.

But most of the president’s post was in response to Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time,” which was Maher’s first episode since dining with Trump at the White House on October 15.

The following day, Trump said it was a “great dinner” and said Maher “likes me a lot more than people understand, and I actually like him.”

Evidently, that changed after Trump tuned into Maher’s show. In a post riddled with inaccuracies, Trump blasted Maher, business partner Chuck LaBella, and HBO. Trump concluded, “I never watched your show much, but I will never watch it again, because it is nothing more than FAKE NEWS.”

“Real Time” is a comedic talk show featuring Maher’s pointed commentary, plenty of jokes, and an array of political and cultural guests. Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was a featured guest on Friday, along with Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate for governor in California, and Andy Beshear, the Democratic governor of Kentucky. CNN re-aired the episode on Saturday. (HBO and CNN are both owned by Skydance.)

Trump’s post about Maher contained multitudes. At some points he sounded disappointed. “You’re a hopeless guy,” the president wrote.

At other points, he sounded vengeful. “I’m going to have the Republicans not cover you anymore,” Trump said, again seemingly writing directly to Maher via Truth Social.

By “cover you,” Trump may have meant Republicans who agree to appear on Maher’s show. Or maybe he was referring to the tendency of Fox News and other right-wing channels to play sound bites from Maher’s heterodox monologues.

Trump made other unclear comments, including about a “Laughter Machine,” insinuating that Maher’s show uses a laugh track: “Bill Maher lied, but he lies about everything, and I believe he lied to me when I asked him, with all the applause and laughter he gets after almost everything he says, about thing that aren’t funny or even any good, what Laughter Machine does he use? People can’t think he’s funny.”

The “Real Time” studio audience apparently thinks Maher is funny, because they’re seen and heard cheering during the show.

Trump recounted his first dinner with Maher, in March 2025, and said “he gave me a good first show” afterward, then “reverted back to his former self, and his old ways.”

Trump went on to claim that LaBella lobbied hard to get Maher invited back, “saying how much Bill loves me, that he respects me more than anybody, and wants to come back for a second meeting.”

The October 15 dinner also included ESPN host Stephen A. Smith and musician Kid Rock. Smith said on his podcast the next day that “we were there for over four hours in the White House, and Donald Trump did not run from any questions.”

Maher repeated the four-hour estimate on HBO, leading Trump to object: “Overall, I thought it was a good meeting. It didn’t last four hours, it lasted two hours, maybe less, and everybody was happy. We have the timestamps. I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time.”

Trump also defended himself against Maher’s jabs at his low approval ratings by wildly mischaracterizing CNN’s reporting.

“I have High Ratings and, more importantly, he said that I’m losing the support and approval of the Republican Party when, in fact, CNN just came out with a Poll showing that I’m at 98 and 99% support within the Republican Party, an All Time Record High,” Trump wrote.

CNN’s most recent poll, released last week, showed Trump with 74% approval among Republicans, “ a new numeric low .”

Trump’s 98 and 99% claims likely refer to a weeks-old video clip of CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, who highlighted another network’s poll finding that self-professed MAGA Republicans still back the president almost unanimously.

Trump has been approvingly showing that video clip at midterm rallies. But the GOP contains many millions of voters who do not self-identify as “MAGA Republicans.” Trump has repeatedly conflated his loyal MAGA base with the broader Republican Party.

Maher obviously touched a nerve, or several. Trump’s record-long rant against the comedian was nearly double the length of his second-longest post, a 723-word screed from May that began with complaints about the Kennedy Center’s plumbing and air conditioning before veering into attacks on a federal judge and his wife, the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and birthright citizenship.

The operators of the Factbase database wrote on X that the anti-Maher essay was Trump’s “longest post ever out of 97,455 cumulative social media posts since 2011.”

Of course, Trump started out posting on Twitter, which enforced a 140-character limit for many years. Nowadays, many social media sites encourage longer posts.

Still, Trump beat reporters found that they could barely screenshot and summarize Sunday night’s harangue. This article is more than 900 words long, and it still doesn’t even come close to matching the president’s verbosity.

Trump ended with his customary eight-word sign-off, perhaps never more appropriately deployed: “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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根据 CNN 的分析和第三方追踪公司的统计，唐纳德·特朗普总统刚刚发表了他在 Truth Social 上发表的最长的帖子。

总统这篇文章的主题是什么？既不是中期选举，也不是中东冲突。这篇文章是关于他与HBO喜剧演员比尔·马赫之间错综复杂的关系。

“比尔：别再打电话了，”特朗普在一篇长达 1323 字、情绪激动的长篇大论的结尾写道。这篇长篇大论以全大写字母称马赫为“彻头彻尾的失败者”开篇。

这篇长文还包含一些真实的新闻：特朗普证实了最近的报道，即他曾考虑将报道他的记者从白宫工作区驱逐出去，而新闻界已经在那里工作了几十年。

“我正在考虑搬迁新闻发布厅，把他们安置在另一个地方，但我会把腾出的地方用作急需的空间，”特朗普写道。

但总统的大部分帖子都是对周五 HBO 的“实时”节目的回应，这是马赫自 10 月 15 日在白宫与特朗普共进晚餐以来的第一期节目。

第二天，特朗普说这是一顿“很棒的晚餐”，并说马赫“比人们理解的更喜欢我，而我其实也很喜欢他”。

显然，特朗普收看马赫的节目后，情况发生了改变。在一篇充斥着不实信息的帖子中，特朗普抨击了马赫、他的商业伙伴查克·拉贝拉以及HBO。特朗普总结道：“我以前很少看你的节目，但我以后再也不会看了，因为它不过是假新闻。”

《实时秀》（Real Time）是一档喜剧脱口秀节目，以马赫犀利的评论、大量的笑话以及众多政治和文化嘉宾为特色。前白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特（Karoline Leavitt）是周五节目的特邀嘉宾，其他嘉宾还包括加州共和党州长候选人史蒂夫·希尔顿（Steve Hilton）和肯塔基州民主党州长安迪·贝希尔（Andy Beshear）。CNN于周六重播了这期节目。（HBO和CNN均隶属于天空之舞传媒集团。）

特朗普关于马赫的帖子内容丰富。他有时听起来很失望。“你真是个没救的家伙，”总统写道。

在其他一些时候，他的语气听起来像是带有报复意味。“我要让共和党人不再报道你了，”特朗普说道，这番话似乎又是通过Truth Social直接写给马赫的。

特朗普所说的“掩护你们”，可能指的是那些同意上马赫节目的共和党人。或者，他可能指的是福克斯新闻和其他右翼频道喜欢播放马赫那些离经叛道的独白片段。

特朗普还发表了其他一些含糊不清的言论，包括关于“笑声机”的言论，暗示马赫的节目使用了罐头笑声：“比尔·马赫撒谎了，但他什么都撒谎，我相信当我问他时，他也在撒谎。他说的几乎每句话，哪怕是那些不好笑甚至很烂的话，都能赢得掌声和笑声，他到底用的是什么笑声机？人们不可能觉得他好笑。”

《实时》节目现场的观众显然觉得马赫很幽默，因为在节目播出期间可以看到和听到他们的欢呼声。

特朗普回忆起他与马赫在 2025 年 3 月的第一次晚餐，并表示之后“他给了我一个不错的开场”，然后“又变回了以前的自己，恢复了老样子”。

特朗普接着声称，拉贝拉努力游说，希望再次邀请马赫，“说比尔多么爱我，他比任何人都尊重我，并且想回来进行第二次会面。”

10月15日的晚宴还包括ESPN主持人斯蒂芬·A·史密斯和音乐人基德·洛克。史密斯第二天在他的播客节目中说：“我们在白宫待了四个多小时，唐纳德·特朗普没有回避任何问题。”

马赫在HBO节目中重复了四小时的估计，这导致特朗普提出异议：“总的来说，我认为这是一次不错的会议。它没有持续四个小时，而是持续了两个小时，甚至可能更短，而且每个人都很满意。我们有时间戳。我什么也没学到，感觉浪费了时间。”

特朗普还对马赫关于他低支持率的嘲讽进行了辩护，他严重歪曲了 CNN 的报道。

“我的支持率很高，更重要的是，他说我正在失去共和党的支持和认可，但事实上，CNN刚刚公布的一项民意调查显示，我在共和党内的支持率高达98%到99%，创历史新高，”特朗普写道。

CNN 上周发布的最新民调显示，特朗普在共和党人中的支持率为 74%，创下“新的数字新低”。

特朗普所说的 98% 和 99% 的支持率可能指的是几周前 CNN 首席数据分析师哈里·恩滕的一段视频片段，他在视频中强调了另一家电视台的民调结果，即自称“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）的共和党人仍然几乎一致地支持总统。

特朗普在中期选举集会上一直赞许地播放这段视频。但共和党内有数百万选民并不认同自己是“让美国再次伟大”的共和党人。特朗普一再将他忠实的MAGA支持者与更广泛的共和党混为一谈。

马赫显然触动了某些人的痛处，或者说触动了好几条痛处。特朗普对这位喜剧演员的长篇抨击几乎是他第二长帖子的两倍，第二长的帖子是5月份发布的723字长文，开头抱怨肯尼迪中心的管道和空调，后来话锋一转，攻击了一位联邦法官及其妻子、最高法院的关税裁决以及出生公民权。

Factbase 数据库的运营者在 X 上写道，这篇反马赫的文章是特朗普自 2011 年以来累计发布的 97,455 条社交媒体帖子中“最长的帖子”。

当然，特朗普最初是在推特上发帖，而推特多年来一直限制每条帖子只能写140个字符。如今，许多社交媒体网站都鼓励用户发布更长的帖子。

尽管如此，特朗普的随行记者们发现，他们几乎无法截屏并概括周日晚上的那番长篇大论。这篇文章已有900多字，但仍然远不及总统的滔滔不绝。

特朗普以他惯用的八个字的结尾语结束了发言，这或许是再合适不过的了：“感谢您对此事的关注。”