At the invitation and arranging of Kid Rock, President Donald Trump had dinner and converation with pundit/comedian Bill Maher at the White House. Welcome to 2025, everyone.

Seriously, try to imagine writing that sentence ten years ago. We live in wild and interesting times. So, how did this dinner party come about, and why did Bill Maher – who insisted that Trump was the worst possible of all options during the 2016 election and the 2024 election – accept a dinner invitation to the White House?

Bill Maher has undergone a bit of a transformation in the last few years. He is still a raging liberal, and proud of it. But what he is not, is “woke.” He, like many other Americans, was content to “live and let live,” but then discovered that the hard left was not interested in that. As Erick Erickson once wrote, “you will be made to care.” That did not sit well with Maher, who learned (as Ronald Reagan did) that the Democrat party was in the process of leaving him. To conservatives and Republicans, Maher became the proverbial broken clock – right twice a day.

But he absolutely loathed Donald Trump. He knew the left was making a huge mistake in pursuing Trump via lawfare, and warned them that it was a bad idea. Obviously, they didn’t listen. He openly supported Kamala Harris while acknowledging that Joe Biden had to step down after the June debate (Maher wanted an open convention because he supported Gavin Newsom, so keep that in mind). And when Trump won in November, Maher tore into the Democrats who were making excuses for Kamala.