Bill Maher took a jab at Donald Trump’s position on abortion on last Friday's episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher.” joking that there’s a very good reason why the former president will never fully oppose abortion.
The setup for the monologue joke came as Maher discussed how Trump launched his social media platform Truth Social public this week and saw his investment in the company skyrocket to billions of dollars.
“It went public. He made $5 billion. Idiots bought shares in this money-losing copy of Twitter that no one uses,” Maher said. “This is why Trump is never really going to be against abortion: he needs a fool born every minute.”
Trump owns approximately 60% of the company’s stock, currently valued at $61.96 per share. The former president can’t sell his shares for six months, but the public offering came at a good time as Trump is due to pay $175 million in five days for the lawsuit he lost for civil fraud.
Elsewhere in Maher’s monologue he addressed Biden’s star-studded fundraiser in New York City this week.
“Biden had a big fundraiser, did you see that in New York? Obama was there and Bill Clinton, it was like ‘The Expendables,’” the host joked, referring to the action franchise featuring aging action heroes. “It was at Radio City. Biden was very excited, he said he’s heard very good things about radio.”
Maher then compared the fundraiser with Trump’s Truth Social windfall.
“This is America in a nutshell: So they have this big fundraiser there, they have the A-list stars, of course they have ex-presidents, singers, dancers, Lizzo – they raised $26 million. Trump unloaded Twitter for Fools on the stock market and made $5 billion sitting at home,” he said.
The HBO host also had to mention Trump’s sale of “Trump Bibles” for a premium price.
“This is not the only way Trump is making money. I’m not kidding, it sounds like I am, he’s got his very own Bible,” he started. “But it’s not just your regular Bible that you buy in the airport. It also contains the constitution and the declaration of independence. His fans are going to love it, it has everything they pretend to have read in one book.”
Then another joke: “Trump selling a Bible, it’s like Chris Christie selling a vegetable slicer.”
Maher then shifted to the Easter holiday, which he described as “the day when Romans crucified Christ, or as the Trump Bible says there were some very fine people on both sides.”
