Keith Olbermann Slams Bill Maher for ‘Prostituting Himself’ Over Trump Dinner Praise: ‘This Is So He Can Keep His HBO Show’

Media firebrand Keith Olbermann has unleashed a scathing rebuke of comedian and HBO/Max big Bill Maher for Maher’s praise for President Donald Trump pursuing a meal acceptable up by Kid Rock.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Olbermann dismissed the meal arsenic a transactional determination to sphere Maher’s career, straight attacking Maher’s quality and motivations.

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“BTW don’t overanalyze Maher prostituting himself to Trump,” Olbermann wrote successful a post. “Maher works for the aforesaid fascists astatine Warner who took implicit and corrupted CNN.”

Olbermann, who has had a agelong and often combative vocation successful media, claimed idiosyncratic cognition of Maher stretching backmost astir 5 decades.

“I’ve known Bill since 1978. He was a shameless opportunist with nary existent principles past and helium remains so,” helium added. “This is truthful helium tin support his HBO show.”

The outburst came successful effect to Maher’s caller monologue connected his precocious nighttime amusement “Real Time with Bill Maher,” successful which the big attempted to downplay the meal with Trump — arranged by instrumentalist Kid Rock — arsenic thing much than a societal encounter. Maher opened his conception by mocking the media and nationalist for blowing the gathering retired of proportion: “Let maine archetypal accidental that to each the radical who treated this similar it was immoderate benignant of acme meeting, ‘You’re ridiculous,’” Maher said connected his show.

The remarks signaled a softening oregon astatine slightest a idiosyncratic re-evaluation of Trump from Maher, who’s antecedently captious of the erstwhile president. It was lone 2 weeks ago, connected a March 28 episode, that helium delivered a conception titled “Trump Devotion Syndrome,” erstwhile the 69-year-old comedian mocked and skewered MAGA.

But that nuance was mislaid connected Olbermann, who interpreted the gathering and Maher’s remarks arsenic small much than harm power to support his lasting wrong the Warner Bros. Discovery media company, which oversees HBO and CNN —both of which Olbermann accuses of ideological drift.

Whether Maher’s meal with Trump volition person semipermanent consequences for his credibility oregon ratings remains to beryllium seen. But successful the tribunal of nationalist opinion, the conflict lines are already being drawn, and Olbermann has made it wide which broadside he’s on.

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