Comedian Bill Maher delivered a reality check to those who may have tried to predict his reaction to U.S. strikes against Iran that included a devastating blow against the former vice president.
With a guest panel that featured California Sen. Adam Schiff (D) and indicted podcaster Don Lemon, the audience tuning into the latest installment of HBO’s “Real Time” likely anticipated something like a leftist lovefest leveraging talking points about an alleged “illegal war.”
Instead, Maher dropped his own ordinance with a truth bomb, saying, “If you expected me to say I hate it, I don’t. Sorry.”
“Also, this week, war! Did you hear about that thing?” the host asked the audience, pivoting to the closing bit for his monologue. “We bombed Iran and it’s going on now. If you expected me to say I hate it, I don’t. Sorry.”
Bill Maher apologizes to his liberal audience as he delivers this take on the “Iran war”:
“This week, war. Did you hear about that thing?”
“We bombed Iran, and it’s going on now. If you expected me to say I hate it, I don’t. Sorry.”
“Sorry. And you cannot name one horrible… pic.twitter.com/rHnGhMpK2g
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) March 7, 2026
“When he puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it. Now? I know too many happy Iranian-Americans. Sorry,” reiterated the comedian. “And, you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy. They’re like six degrees of they don’t eat bacon.”
“And it’s popular. I mean, Iranians all over the world are doing the Trump dance. Have you seen that?” continued Maher before making a crude joke about the gesture. “It’s amazing, yeah.”
The host proceeded to call out the partisan mentality utilized in assessing world events, “Did my team do it? Then I love it. If their team did, I hate it. I mean, Kamala Harris made a statement, she said this is a ‘war the American people [don’t] want.’ And who knows more about what the American people don’t want.”
Calling it a “dangerous and unnecessary gamble with American lives” and asserting she agreed that Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon despite backing the left’s foolhardy Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — otherwise known as the Iran Nuclear Deal — the former vice president ramped up the tough talk, “Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.”
Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.
Read my full statement: pic.twitter.com/JmxZaC8vBr
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 28, 2026
As for Maher, while he went on to question the president’s decision to criticize him on social media, the comedian had himself recalled the cordial reception he’d received at the White House after accepting an invitation to be the guest of Kid Rock when dining with President Donald Trump.
“I voted for Obama. I voted for Clinton. But the idea that I could talk to them as freely as I felt this conversation was going is emblematic, to me, of why the Democrats lose the elections,” Maher had said to guest Charlie Kirk months before the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated.
Similarly, Kid Rock had told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” the day after, “And we talked about things we had in common, you know, ending wokeness .. securing the border. The president was asking him what he thought about policy going on with Iran and Israel and things. It blew my mind. I was very proud.”
Maher also praised Trump late last year after announcing the first phase of a peace deal brokered between Israel and Hamas, saying, “[H]e didn’t play the silly game that the other presidents to, like, ‘Well, we have to be even-steven. Who knows who’s right, the people who treasure life or the people who treasure death?’ And he was like, ‘Where would you live? Ramallah or Tel Aviv? You’d live in Tel Aviv.’ A society that resembles yours and has shared values. Not letting women be free to dress as they want and covering their faces and stuff — that’s not our values. Are you kidding?”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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