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John Fetterman's praise of Trump's 'quiet piggy' insult sparks outrage

The internet was stunned on Monday after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told comedian Bill Maher that he commended President Donald Trump's insult directed at a female reporter.

Fetterman was a guest on Maher's "Club Random Podcast" when the comedian and host talked about how "refreshing" Trump's "honesty" has been when the lawmaker replied and laughed, saying: "The ultimate: quiet piggy. Hahaha, yeah!"

The internet sounded off on the interaction between the two public figures.

"Two white men laughing at the president of the United States telling a woman reporter to 'quiet piggy' and calling it refreshing honesty really tells you how little regard both of them have for women. And professional decorum and basic decency," Mj Cusick, a marketing professional and ghost writer who self-describes as a "lifelong D," wrote on X.

"Two a------- walk into a bar..." Democratic strategist Jon Cooper, former Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama and majority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature, wrote on X.

"This dude has fully jumped aboard the grift train. I used to be such a fan but I had to stop supporting him years ago!" Political commentator Jason McDaniel wrote on X.

"Watch Maher & Fetterman have a big laugh about how ;refreshing' Trump’s honesty is when he demeans and attacks female reporters, including the 'quiet piggy' line. (Fitting since Maher has revealed himself to be the John Fetterman of out of touch talk show hosts)," The Tennessee Holler, a progressive news site, wrote in a Bluesky post.

Bill Maher gushes over how “refreshing” Donald Trump’s “honesty” is with reporters and John Fetterman responds: “The ultimate: quiet piggy. Hahaha, yeah!” pic.twitter.com/cBrq3juuxg
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) May 11, 2026

Bill Maher taunts 'big man' Trump for failing to 'block' honorary award

Bill Maher has taunted Donald Trump over a recent honorary awards win that was handed to the talk show host.

Maher, 70, was confirmed last week as the recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The announcement at the time was met with firm denial from White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, though it was confirmed a short while after MAGA-leaning GOP members aired their anger. Maher has since hit back at Trump and his team, The Hill reported.

Speaking to his audience during a recording of HBO's Real Time, Maher said he was honored to have been selected and even wanted the president to be at the ceremony when he receives the award.

He said, "You know, this has been going on a long time. So him trying to block me from getting it – I respect the move. Keep it going, baby. I just want things to work out, and also I want to say thank you, OK?

"I will be there, Don, and I hope you will be too. I mean, the place is named after you now, you really should show up. You could thank me for being one of the few people on the lunatic left who’s glad you hit Iran and is hoping we win that one, OK?"

A statement from Maher, seen by Politico at the time of the award announcement, reads, "Thank you to the Mark Twain people: I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win.

"I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain."

Maher will be presented with the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at one of the last public events at the Kennedy Center before its two-year shutdown. The show is set to be broadcast by Netflix.

Bill Maher has faced criticism from liberal audiences over his commentary on various political issues, including immigration policy, cancel culture, and social movements. Some progressives have accused him of shifting rightward on certain topics, leading to decreased support among his traditionally liberal viewership and online backlash on social media platforms.

White House embarrasses Karoline Leavitt by giving Bill Maher award

Staffers at the White House were forced to walk back a statement mocking a report that claimed Bill Maher would receive an honor at the Kennedy Center.

The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will be handed to the long-serving talk show host Maher at the Kennedy Center, according to an insider speaking to Politico.

Reports of who the award recipient would be broke earlier this week, with The Atlantic claiming Maher had been chosen. But the White House scrambled to deny it.

"Anonymous sources with half-baked information leaked to The Atlantic before conversations were finalized," an unnamed White House source said.

"There was nothing to confirm at the time and it is not appropriate to get ahead of any settled agreement between multiple parties involved."

A statement from Maher, seen by Politico, read, "Thank you to the Mark Twain people: I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win.

“I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had previously denied that Maher was set to receive a prize. She released a statement shortly after news of the award nomination broke last week. She wrote, "This is fake news. Bill Maher will NOT be getting this award."

GOP representative Steven Cheung also took to X and claimed the story is "literally FAKE NEWS." Even Donald Trump has made his thoughts on Maher clear, with the president once taking to Truth Social and calling the talk show host a "jerk" and a "highly overrated lightweight".

Maher will be presented with the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at one of the last public events at the Kennedy Center before its two-year shutdown. The show is set to be broadcast by Netflix.

MAGA outrage hits Bill Maher after comments on shooter: 'Scrawny piece of human garbage'

Comedian Bill Maher is taking heat from MAGA after comments he made on his show.

On his latest broadcast, Maher discussed the Minnesota church shooter, who was known as Robin Westman but was born as Robert Westman.

"That's not why we got what we got. Trans is not the cause of this," Maher said, suggesting that becoming transgender have been one of many attempts to "fix her chronic unhappiness." He added, "The joke's on you" to anyone who seeks to interpret the shooter's manifesto at this stage.

The conservative outlet The Post Millennial wrote, "While respecting the pronouns of the Minnesota killer of Catholic schoolchildren, Bill Maher says 'the joke's on you' if you try to decipher a political motive."

MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec said, "BREAKING: Bill Maher attacks conservatives for saying the shooter being trans had anything to do with the Catholic children murders in Minneapolis."

This led Trump ally Roger Stone to chime in, "Bill Maher is a scrawny piece of human garbage who is not even faintly amusing without a platoon of comedy writers. A pompous a------."

Stone then added, "When I wipe my a-- what's left on the toilet paper has more talent than he does."

Self-identified MAGA mother Ceara asked, "Who’s going to have the pleasure of fact checking him? We can’t allow people that ignore facts to make such statements about tragic deaths. Did he do his own research before talking about this?"

John Connell, another self-identified MAGA user, said Sunday, "Ever capitulating to the left. What a joke."

Local GOP chairman Bo French said, "I am so tired of my normiecon friends talking about how great Bill Maher has been lately. 'He is so reasonable now.' LOL. No, he is a leftist at heart and can't even admit Charlie's shooter is a leftist too," he wrote Sunday. "Despicable."

'How are you so sure?' Bill Maher renders Ben Shapiro speechless with shooter fact check

TV host Bill Maher shut down noted right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro with a comment about how news is spread in connection with the shooting death of fellow conservative Charlie Kirk.

It started with Shapiro saying we "know" that the suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, was "of the political left." Shapiro cited a report from the Guardian, which was later partly retracted.

"How are you so sure?" Maher asks Shapiro as Maher explains various examples of initial reports that later fell flat. Maher then brought up other reports that Robinson could be right-wing, and Shapiro was stopped in his tracks before admitting that was a possibility, too.

After the retraction of part of the Guardian piece, ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan chimed in, "This was Ben Shapiro’s big source last night on Bill Maher for claiming it had been proved the shooter was a leftist."

Bill Maher devolves into profane rant over immigration with Hollywood actor

Political provocateur Bill Maher borrowed a term from President Donald Trump when ranting about "s---hole countries" while discussing immigration with Latino activist and Hollywood actor John Leguizamo.

Trump coined the phrase during his first term in office to refer to the usually third-world countries that were home to non-white citizens.

The Daily Beast wrote about Maher's Club Random podcast, where the host condemned former President Joe Biden's "come one, come all" border policy.

Leguizamo pushed back on that assertion, saying, “There’s plenty of room in America, come on. There’s not a lack of room in America.”

The suggestion sent Maher into a tailspin.

“But it’s never about room, it’s about resources," Maher declared. “Countries have to have a border. I mean, they’ve done surveys and something like 200 million people around the world when asked, ‘Would you come to America if you could?’ answered 'Yes, I would.’ Why wouldn’t they? Lots of countries, excuse me, are s---holes, and they would love to be here.”

Leguizamo, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and who lobbies on behalf of the American Latino community, shot back, "The places aren’t s---holes."

"Well, they are," Maher said, undeterred. "That’s why they want to come.”

Leguizamo brought up the U.S. history of intervening in Latin-American countries, while taking advantage of their natural resources. Despite Leguizamo's assertion, Maher doubled down.

“It’s not your fault you live in a s---hole. It doesn’t mean you’re a s---hole person,” Maher said. “You have the misfortune of being born there, and I get why you would want to come here.”

Read The Daily Beast article here.

'Insulting to 6M dead Jews': Bill Maher escalates public war with Larry David

The war of words between comics Larry David and Bill Maher has become anything but funny.

David, one of the creators of the wildly successful "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" sitcoms, wrote a satirical op-ed for The New York Times about having dinner with Adolf Hitler, in a not-so-veiled criticism of Maher's recent meeting with President Donald Trump.

The Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy wrote that he "understood Larry's intent in writing this piece."

"Bill, a comedian Larry respects, said in a monologue on his Max show that he found the president to be “gracious and measured” compared with the man who attacks him on Truth Social. Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler. It is about seeing people for who they really are and not losing sight of that."

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But Maher certainly didn't see it that way, telling former CNN host Piers Morgan that David's piece was "insulting to six million dead Jews."

Both David and Maher are of Jewish descent.

"The minute you play the Hitler card, you've lost the argument," Maher said as Morgan agreed. "Nobody has been harder and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don't need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn't change that, and the fact that I reported honestly isn't a sin either."

Maher continued, "But, to use the Hitler thing is, I think, kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know? Like, that should kind of be in its own place in history. And I know people can say, 'Well, we're just comparing it in this way." Well, it's an argument you kind of lost just to start. It — look, maybe it's not completely logically fair, but Hitler has kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the GOAT of evil and we're just going to have to, I think, leave it like that."

When asked if they're friends, Maher answered, "Of course," but said this wasn't his "favorite moment" of their friendship.

Watch the interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored here.

'Democracy should be here to stay': Bill Maher puts the screws to Kevin McCarthy

Bill Maher on Friday evening put former GOP lawmaker Kevin McCarthy on the spot on HBO's Real Time.

McCarthy, who was ousted from his position as the Republican Speaker of the House before being replaced by Mike Johnson, aired his grievances to Maher about representatives who lie about why they vote for or against certain bills. It's because they want a raise, but they won't tell that to the American people, McCarthy said.

"Those are the people I like to challenge," he added.

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Then, McCarthy appears to step in a trap when he starts ranting against high inflation and "wide-open borders" that he said didn't exist when Trump was the president.

Maher hit him with a stinging clapback: "Inflation comes and goes. Democracy should be here to stay."

McCarthy said President Joe Biden is the true threat to democracy, citing Hunter Biden's laptop.

"Oh, for f---'s sake," Maher sighed.

"You can't say that!" McCarthy replied.

"I just did," Maher told him.

McCarthy said a poll found people thought Biden was a threat to democracy, and Maher said, "That doesn't make it right."

Then, McCarthy falsely claimed that Trump's Justice Department never prosecuted the ex-president's enemies. In fact, Trump prosecuted his former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen.

"He himself was indicted!" Maher shouted. "That's the point."

On social media, some complained about Maher hosting McCarthy, while others praised the interview.

@RRWORK1 wrote, "We need to have Bill Maher interview more Republicans like Kevin McCarthy. Good job!"

'I'm turning on this one': Bill Maher reveals he thinks Trump could lose hush money case

Bill Maher has previously criticized the hush money cover-up case against Donald Trump, but he said on Friday night that he now believes Trump could lose at trial.

Maher, who recently interviewed conservative pundit Piers Morgan about Trump, told former CNN host Don Lemon that he has "always been against" the criminal case accusing Trump of hiding payments to an adult film star for the purposes of affecting the 2016 election.

"Because I thought, of all the ones you are bringing, this is going the least serious," Maher said, adding that he went as far as to write editorials about it. "Now I think Trump could lose. I'm turning on this one, because it's not what I thought it was gonna be."

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Lemon responded that this one "could take him down," and noted that the ex-president "looks small."

"He looks diminished," Lemon said of Trump at trial.

Maher went on to note that witness David Pecker, the head of the tabloid accused of orchestrating "catch-and-kill" schemes for the then-candidate is "not covering up anything," and is confirming Trump did it for the election and not his family.

"This is the key thing, and it's so clear, I think even a jury of Americans could get this," Maher tells Lemon.

Lemon then points out that Pecker still sees Trump as a mentor and as a friend.

"Now for you to testify against a mentor and a friend, it's gotta be true," Lemon says.

Maher adds that, if that's what happens, it will have huge consequences politically.

"If this goes that way and Trump loses, it's going to change the whole election," he said. "A significant number of independents and Republicans say their vote will change if he's a convicted criminal, and he'll look like a loser, not that he doesn't already."

He then added:

"And Alvin Bragg is gonna be the rising star of the Democratic party, because everyone said not a good idea, including me," Maher said.