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To remind you, Bill Maher told Jay Leno he’d give $5 million to the charities of Donald Trump’s choice if the Celebrity Apprentice host could prove he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan”. In the breach of contract lawsuit (Donald Trump Acts Like Horse’s Ass Again) filed in LA Superior Court, Trump claims he accepted Maher’s bet in writing the next day and provided his birth certificate – so now The Donald wants the cash for five charities. Maher responded on his HBO show Real Time Friday night:
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No doubt about it. Maher is ingenious. This a great example of a modern day Theatre of the Absurd. Trump always times his rants to coincide with the latest premiere of The Apprentice and Maher gets fantastic exposure as well. They should debate via a pay cable special with the proceeds going to charities they designate.
Maher’s hateful insults have consquences. He spews venom every Friday night. He gets what he gives. About time.
He makes fun of EVERYONE and he’s merely calling the Donald out for making an ass out of himself as he should. Don’t try to tell me that Donald Trump doesn’t bully others, he does it regularly, all the time on Twitter.
So don’t watch him.
Brilliant!
This was a brilliant response on Bill’s part. Donald Trump questioned the legitimacy of Obama’s documents? Well, then Bill has every right to question the validity of Trump’s “Certificate of Live Birth,” which seems like it could be a forged document.
Trump walked right into this one, having his own conspiracy nut arguments used against him. He also does not understand the concept of free speech and satire.
I’m not calling either side a liar, but either Maher signed a written contract backing up the joke (as Trump is claiming), or he did not. That should be pretty provable by a pre-law major at any local college.
I think I may have hurt myself – I laughed that hard.
Game, set and match to Mr. Maher!
I don’t care what Bill Maher says. He made a bet and has to live with it. Pay the man and get on with life even if Donald Trump is a total jackass.
It wasn’t a bet. It was a joke. Apparently Trump isn’t the only one who can’t tell the difference.
Trump did NOT provide the long form birth certificate; clearly Trump is hiding something . . .
Bill Maher is a horses ass. Why not simply give money to charity, Bill?
You know what, I just don’t get Bill Maher’s appeal. He’s old as dirt, he’s not funny, he’s INCREDIBLY sexist and he thinks everyone who doesn’t agree with him is an idiot.
And Trump fits that description as well.
Why are the sleazeballs getting any attention? It’s beneath you, Nikki.
Publicity.
I can’t decide who I hate more, Donald Trump or Bill Maher.
Smarmy Bill is still a selfish greedy jerk he blew his best chance to be a bigger man than Trump is. Bill should have announced he was donating $2.5 million to charity and challenged The Donald to match that amount. Come on Bill you’re a multi-millionaire now and the truth is you were never very talented you lucked into a great gig and you’re lazy you only do your TV show 7 or 8 months a year. Show Trump that you are better and bigger than he is and write a check for half the amount you said you’d give. It’s for charity so it’s tax deductible what are you waiting for?
HILARIOUS!! LOVE.IT.
Hmmm. Seems like Bill is trying to cover his cowardly welch by ridiculing the Donald. Not that Trump doesn’t deserve it – but another sign that Bill’s type doesn’t want to be responsible for what he says – but wants to hold others to a different standard. He can call Palin a C*nt – but doesn’t have the balls to actually make good on his challenge to Trump to begin with.
So see if Trump DOESNT take it seriously – Bill can use the threat of a challenge, but if he does, Trump’s an idiot.
Way to go Trump! Maher deserves the lawsuit and needs to pay up!
Way to go Trump? Pretty sure you missed the entire point of this video, Maher does not need to pay up because it was a JOKE!
Did you not watch the video??
Do you know what a legally binding contract is??
Do you know what a joke is?
I’m pretty sure a joke IS legally binding to orangutans and their offspring.
And judging from the number of comments saying Maher should pay up, I’m almost willing to bet my left nut that there are more offspring of orangutans on here than actual people.
Good thing you added the “almost” I don’t think you want to pay up on that bet (joke or not) that you just put in writing.
Yes, because a comedian making an obvious joke about a scientific impossibility is a good reason to sue and waste the time of the court when they could be doing something actually productive.
It shows how pathetic Trump is that even if it makes him look like a buffoon he’ll take it and run with it to keep his name in the headlines 5 more minutes.
Perhaps you too, along with Trump, need to be educated as to what a joke is.
Donald Trump is a cancer on the planet.
At least Trump does something constructive whether you think he’s a buffoon or not, all Maher does is spew hate. He’s not funny, he’s just spiteful.
Yes, as a real estate mogul, Trump is technically more constructive than a talk show host. You win that one on semantics.
I dont think much of Trump and Maher is one of those people who thinks that insulting others is funny, probably because he stacks his audience with like minded dimwits who applaud everything he says. Well this time they may have applauded him into a five million dollar payout. Not only was what he said about Trumps parents extremely offensive but he made a public offer and Trump took him up on it and fulfilled his part of the deal. Now Maher wants to try to joke and insult and weasel his way out?
I don’t think it was an orangutan, exactly – what are those things called, again… with the really big butts…?
A baboon.
If the lawsuit turns on whether Maher’s original bit was funny enough to signify it was a “joke” and not an offer to “contract,” Bill might think hard about settling.
We’ll hear a lot more about this, these are the two biggest media whores on the planet. They’ll both say anything to get press.
Trump will find any way….through any venue…to promote his brand, because that is the type of slick huckster he is. Hey…he’d probably try to make a buck off his own funeral…..
Trump is the man!
Apparently more of an orangutan. But as long as you believe in evolution…
Conservatives: Do you feel deep, deep, deep down that maybe Trump might be a significant reason why you lost this last election? I know many conservatives who are ashamed that this moron with skin and hair the color of an oily pizza slice is the mouthpiece for their party. Personally, I love it. More elections coming up. Keep on going with yo’ bad self capn’ bankruptcy.
Oh, there are quite a few charities that Mr. string head has stiffed himself. Ask a couple not-for profits in New York and they’ll tell you how Donald likes to promise the moon to them – but the promises never materialize and remain just that – promises.
Bill Maher got pawned, and he reacts like a typical liberal.
If by pawned you mean that Trump revealed how he’s a shameless media whore who’s filing an obviously bullshit lawsuit and tying up LA courts to get publicity for his pathetic show, then yes, he did.
“Pawned”? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
By recognizing outlandish stupidity and pointing out the absurdity of it? You do realize this is about a almost 70 year old man who’s actually going into an American COURT OF LAW AND JUSTICE to prove who wasn’t born to a monkey? You don’t see the insanity of that? Ladies, and gentleman – I give you 2013′s typical conservative.
Not to mention the fact that 2 years ago this “man” was the GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination.
Think about that.
And like a typical conservative you’re so far out of the loop you’re orbiting Pluto, and not just semantically. You meant “pwned,” based on a keystroke error for “owned,” as in “Trump got owned.” (See entry in Urban Dictionary.) I realize you right-wing yahoos always get the techno/pop-culture memes wrong (as in John McCain’s reference about knowing how to use “the e-mail”), but haven’t you embarrassed yourself enough? Rhetorical question.
I love Bill … He’s refreshing. Trump is a first class A hole.
He should’ve said, “I’ll pay $5 million if Jay Leno tells a funny joke in his monologue.”
Provided there’s no time machine to take ‘em back to 1998, that’d be very safe.