Must be nice to be able to call a favor in to POTUS.
Kid Rock has been one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken supporters, appearing with Trump on the campaign trail and performing at the Republican National Convention last year, as well as during the president’s inauguration festivities back in January.
Bill Maher, on the other hand…well, he’s not really a Trump fan.
The liberal comedian has often been critical of President Trump, frequently mocking him on his show Real Time with Bill Maher and calling him various not-so-flattering names like “a spectacular prick” and warning that he’s a threat to America. In fact, Trump even filed a lawsuit against Maher back in 2013, when Maher jokingly offered $5 million to charity if Trump produced his birth certificate to prove that his mother hadn’t mated with an orangutan. (Yes, this really happened). Maher obviously claimed it was a joke, Trump tried to force Maher to pay up, and the lawsuit was dropped a few weeks later.
But needless to say, there’s not much love lost between the two of them.
So while it might not seem like Kid Rock and Bill Maher have much in common, the two actually seem to have a mutual respect for each other and can sit down and have a respectful conversation despite their differences.
Kid Rock recently appeared on an episode of Maher’s Club Random podcast, where he encouraged Maher to meet with the president and attempt to find common ground. And earlier this month, during a conversation with Glenn Beck, Rock revealed that the meeting would actually be happening:
“I’m actually gonna try to unite this country, and at the end of the month, I’m taking Bill Maher to the White House for dinner. This guy has done nothing but talk smack about the President since day one. But he’s a comedian too. I can have conversations with him… we can find common ground.
He’s actually more reasonable than a lot of people on the right would think. Especially the last four years or whatever. So I said to him, ‘If I can hook you guys up,’ this that and the other. Trust me, there’s a lot of people more deserving to be at that table. It’s a big deal for me to bring him there. What would it say to this country?”
But it sounds like the president isn’t all that excited for the meeting…
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump addressed his upcoming dinner with Maher and said that he only agreed to do it as a favor to his good friend Kid Rock:
“I got a call from a very good guy, and friend of mine, Kid Rock, asking me whether or not it would be possible for me to meet, in the White House, with Bill Maher, a man who has been unjustifiably critical of anything, or anyone, TRUMP.
I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting. The problem is, no matter how much he likes your Favorite President, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc., very much like the Democrats at my recent Address to the Joint Session of Congress, where I stated, correctly, that no matter what I said or did, they wouldn’t stand, they wouldn’t applaud, they wouldn’t smile or laugh and, certainly, they wouldn’t be in any way “nice.”
Who knows, though, maybe I’ll be proven wrong? In any event, I’m doing a favor for a friend. I look forward to meeting with Bill Maher, Kid Rock and, I believe, even the Legendary Dana White will be present. It might be fun or, it might not, but you will be the first to know!”
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 31, 2025
Not exactly what you want to hear from the host before you show up for dinner, but I’m not sure that Maher was expecting anything different.
The comedian, on the other hand, said during a recent interview with Chris Cuomo that he didn’t expect to accomplish much at the meeting, but that he was willing to give it a try:
“I don’t have some sort of complex where I think I can heal America, I can’t. Let’s get that clear — I’m not going to be healing America. But if two guys who have been at each other for so long … it’s kind of a Nixon to China thing…
Let’s talk to each other face to face. Let’s stop shouting from 3,000 miles away. If they expect me to be leaving in a MAGA hat, they’re going to be very disappointed. But I know they don’t.
It probably will accomplish very little. But you gotta try, man. You gotta try.”
I’ll be honest, this whole thing sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I wish there was a way they could livestream it, because the chances of it turning out like Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy have to be pretty high.
But hey, he’s doing it as a favor to Kid Rock. And maybe the two will actually be able to find some common ground.
