{"id":33032,"date":"2026-08-08T19:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33032"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:10:44","slug":"this-is-socialism-bill-maher-accuses-trump-of-going-further-left-than-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33032","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Socialism!\u2019: Bill Maher Accuses Trump of Going Further Left Than Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5749393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5749393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5749393\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/maher-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Maher hosting HBO&apos;s Real Time\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5749393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot via HBO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Bill Maher<\/strong> accused President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> of embracing &#8220;socialism&#8221; more openly than Democrats while blasting progressive liberals.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/real-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Real Time<\/em><\/a>, Maher had plenty of criticism to throw the left&#8217;s way, but he accused the right of being hypocrites when it comes to &#8220;socialism&#8221; and &#8220;communism&#8221; accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Maher specifically called out the Trump administration&#8217;s investment and stakes in private companies:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s so interesting, the wrinkle in this story, because now that they&#8217;re communists, there&#8217;s an opening for socialism. And you know who&#8217;s filling it? Donald Trump! Donald Trump, how else do you explain a 9.9 stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/foxs-maria-bartiromo-grills-trump-on-us-taking-a-stake-in-intel-and-other-companies-how-is-that-free-market-capitalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intel<\/a> by the government? Is that not socialism? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-trashes-cnbc-for-fake-nvidia-snub-scoop-but-network-says-presidents-scrambled-china-trip-invite-came-only-after-initial-story-ran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nvidia<\/a>, we took 15% cut when we let them sell chips to China. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/foxs-laura-ingraham-openly-questions-if-trump-is-fully-informed-about-blockbuster-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nippon Steel<\/a>, that&#8217;s merged with US Steel, we have a golden share. We basically run their boardroom now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher joked the administration feels like it could be headed by Sen. <strong>Bernie Sanders<\/strong> (I-VT) when it comes to the federal government being so hands-on in private businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you know this is socialism, I think, because Bernie Sanders agrees with it all. He wants to do it with the AI companies,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guest <strong>Tara Palmeri<\/strong> then declared: &#8220;the free market is dead:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They have decided that the government wants to control 30 different companies. And Intel alone, which was a loser because of Nvidia, they have, they basically own 9.9% of that company. And that&#8217;s a lot. And President Trump, after they invested in this company, he then went on to buy stocks in Nvidia, which shot up 200%. Okay, so he actually made a ton of money on this. His government created a floor on a stock. That he owns! It&#8217;s crony capitalism too!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maher agreed on the &#8220;crony capitalism&#8221; point while Libertarian pundit <strong>Matt Welch<\/strong> called out the behavior as &#8220;thuggish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump was out there saying we need to maybe fire the CEO of Intel because I think he&#8217;s a Chinese spy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like, what? The president is just singling out a huge CEO of an important company and so they had to scramble the Jets and have a meeting at the White House and what happened at the end of that meeting? Okay, you say we get 10% of your company. That is thuggish behavior. We have never seen anything like this in modern time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/this-is-socialism-bill-maher-accuses-trump-of-going-further-left-than-dems\/\">\u2018This Is Socialism!\u2019: Bill Maher Accuses Trump of Going Further Left Than Dems<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenshot via HBO Bill Maher accused President Donald Trump of embracing &#8220;socialism&#8221; more openly than Democrats while blasting progressive liberals. 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