Bill Maher and Greg Gutfeld disagree 'on the most important thing' about Donald Trump in run-up to 2024
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Bill Maher appeared as a guest on the Monday, May 20 episode of 'Gutfeld!', where he had a disagreement with host Greg Gutfeld about former president and presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
According to Fox News, the two comedians clashed specifically over whether Trump would concede the upcoming election if he lost, or choose to undermine it like he did back in 2020.
Trump a bone of contention between Greg Gutfeld and Bill Maher
While Maher was at one with the host who highlighted in his monologue the importance of dialogue across the aisle, he pointed out that while they "agree on some things," they were not "exactly aligned on the most important thing."
"Trump is someone who does not concede elections. It's the most important thing," noted Maher, telling Gutfeld, "You don't seem to see it that way. That's the most important thing that's going on in this country. He didn't concede the last election. He's not going to concede this election."
"You don't know that! You don't see into the future, Bill," Gutfeld tried to interject, but Maher was prepared with a quick comeback.
"Yeah, I did," he replied. "Because I was the only one who was talking about that way back when. And everybody said, ‘Oh, you smoke too much pot.’ Turned out I smoked just the right amount."
The statement referred to Maher predicting ahead of the 2020 election results that the former president would not leave his office willingly. He was later proved right, as proven by the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.
"Can you really picture this guy going, ‘You know what, I lost. That’s it,'" asked Maher of his host. When Gutfeld said that Trump eventually left, Maher stated that it was "because he had to leave."
"Yes, but that's how it works. Do you think he's gonna, like, board up the White House, pull a 'Straw Dogs' with Dustin Hoffman?" asked Gutfeld.
"Well, last time, he thought other Republicans would back him up. When he called that guy in Georgia and said 'I need 11,000 votes, I want you to find'", began Maher, when Gutfeld stressed the difference between "find" and "create."
However, Maher dismissed the point considering them to be the same in the context. He later added that Trump leading in the polls was "bothering" him as he believed that the former president "is an insurrectionist who doesn't believe in democracy" and "he's also insane and a criminal."
Bill Maher acknowledges Trump's youthfulness and not hating every Trump supporter
When Gutfeld played a clip of Trump joking around at a recent campaign event, Maher noted, "But I gotta say what works for him like when you use the clip you just showed. I mean look, he's almost the same age as Biden. But Biden presents as old. Ancient. That does not look old. He does not present as old. He's like (the rock band) KISS. He puts on the wig and the face paint, and it's 1976 all over again."
Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the oldest pair of presumptive presidential nominees in the history of the United States, at 81 years and 77 years, respectively.
Maher concluded by saying he could "be friends" with Gutfeld despite "profound" disagreements between them.
"I can't hate you. I've said it a billion times. You can hate Trump, you can't hate all the people who like him. It's half the country," he shared.
"I'm certainly not blind to Donald Trump's fault. I get it why people choose to vote for him. You know, somebody who's conservative once said to me, 'What you don't get, you liberals don't get about Trump is that we don't like it either. We just see him as a bulwark against the nonsense on the left.' And I understand that because there is a lot of nonsense on the left and that's in my book, too," Maher concluded.
