Bill Maher Reverts to Form, Tells Host Chris Wallace Trump Won't Concede If He Loses in 2024

Bill Maher, often seen by those of us on the right as one of America's saner liberals (Yes, I know, that's setting the bar really low), appears to be reverting to form. He recently appeared with Chris Wallace on his Max streaming show, "Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, where Maher discussed former President Donald Trump, his campaign, his opponent - and then things got weird. My colleague at sister site Townhall, Sarah Arnold, reports:

He (Maher) echoed a debunked theory that Trump will “refuse” to leave office and concede to President Joe Biden. Maher claimed that Republicans are blind to Trump’s motives, suggesting the 2024 front-runner is quietly devising plans to take over the government.
Maher’s liberal craziness didn’t stop there.
He said that on January 20, 2025, Trump will show up to Inauguration Day and claim he won.

Yeah, he won't do that. Maher continued: .

That is the one thing I can absolutely predict with utter certainty. He will never, as I kept saying all those years, he will never concede an election. He’s certainly not going to concede this one.

It is belaboring the obvious to note that there is a huge difference between not conceding an election - and I remind you readers that Hillary Clinton has never accepted her 2016 defeat, and likely never will - and showing up at the inauguration with an angry mob and demanding to be sworn in. The first, in Trump's case, seems likely, should he lose. The latter? Not going to happen. Relax, Bill.

Bill Maher went on to say a few more mildly nutty things:

But you'll note that Maher also said some things that make a certain amount of sense; he thinks Trump is liable to win in November, and that sure looks like the case as of this writing. He also acknowledges that Joe Biden is a bad candidate, which, if it isn't the biggest understatement of the year, it will do until a better one comes along. He went on to say:

“He’s certainly winning now. And Biden does not look like a very good candidate,” Maher added.
On the contrary, Maher took a moment to deviate from his usual digs at Trump, saying that “he's running a much more serious campaign this time” than in 2016.
However, despite basing his show around mocking the GOP, Maher admitted that the Democratic Party’s ideas have gotten “stupid.”
“People have said to me, you make fun of the left more than you used to, and guilty. I have because the left has changed,” he continued. “Just, you know, know, no. It’s not that I’ve gotten old, it’s that your ideas are stupid. OK. Common sense is common sense, and I’m going to call it out whatever it is on the spectrum.”

He's not wrong - not on the seriousness of Trump's campaign, not on the Democrats having been dragged so far to the left as to be beyond the bounds of sanity.

But then, we all knew that already.

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Look, I think that Bill Maher would probably be an interesting guy to sit, have an adult beverage, and gas with. His political views aside, he's intelligent and engaging, and he gives the impression that he's a guy who can disagree with you without calling names, getting angry, or thinking you're stupid. That is, in fact, a good part of his brand.

But on the topic of Donald Trump, he loses a lot of his objectivity. The idea that Donald Trump, should he lose the election, would just show up on Inauguration Day and demand to be sworn in, that's just Bill's Trump Derangement Syndrome manifesting itself. He doesn't have as bad a case of TDS as some but he's got it, all the same.