Bill Maher mocks Trump for 4 minutes straight over Epstein emails in fiery monologue
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Bill Maher launched the Friday, November 14, episode of 'Real Time With Bill Maher' with a blistering monologue of about four-and-a-half minutes where he skewered President Donald Trump over the latest trove of Jeffrey Epstein emails and the firestorm that followed.
Joined by interview guest Scott Galloway and panellists Fareed Zakaria and Josh Barro, Maher used his opening to lampoon not only Trump but also the broader political circus surrounding the newly released documents.
“We can get back to the important business of government reading a dead p*****t’s emails,” Maher began, shaking his head at what he called yet another round of Epstein-related revelations.
Bill Maher mocks the endless email dumps
Maher joked that the release of Epstein files had become a recurring saga in American politics.
“We’re doing this again? Again, Epstein? … When you get elected, they give you your security badge, the key to your office, and here’s your box of Epstein files. They just release them endlessly,” he joked.
He compared the steady flow to “Beatle tracks from the vaults… they just keep coming out and out, it never ends.”
Maher zeroed in on the detail that Trump’s name allegedly appears in the emails more than 1,500 times, and the use of AI to find it.
“Trump doesn’t talk about Trump that much. I mean, that’s… wow,” he said.
He emphasized the president's legal denials, but highlighted one claim anyway. “One of the emails apparently says Trump ‘knew about the girls.’”
Bill Maher jokes about Hillary Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell
The comedian riffed on Hillary Clinton’s infamous server incident as well.
“See, this is why Hillary destroyed her server with the hammer. Sometimes you just gotta go to the hammer, people,” he added.
Maher followed with a jab at Trump’s tariff policies, quipping that if Trump “spent hours” with a girl, “It took her that long to explain to him that it’s the consumers who pay for tariffs.”
Maher also mocked reports that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a cushier facility with “unlimited toilet paper”
“Obama was president for eight years. I don’t remember him ever checking on Jared from Subway to make sure he was getting enough toilet paper,” he joked.
Bill Maher hits both sides for playing politics
While Maher skewered Trump, he also targeted Democrats and Republicans for their competing strategies to weaponize the document dumps.
“Each party’s going to try to get the other one to say Trump is guilty or not… Democrats release some stuff damaging to Trump. Then Republicans release their own stack of emails. Does everyone have emails?” he again asked.
He noted that Republicans counter by highlighting the absence of explicit criminal instructions.
“If Epstein was running an international... ring, how come in 20,000 pages of documents there’s not one email about running a... ring?” Maher questioned.
Maher ended by mocking Trump’s latest response, instructing the Justice Department to investigate Bill Clinton’s Epstein ties.
“I love this…using the Epstein files to distract from the Epstein files,” Maher cracked. “Trump said, I will not rest until I get to the middle of this.”
