‘I’m So Worried About 2028!’ Bill Maher Frets Democrats Will Squander Midterm Victory

Comedian Bill Maher told Chris Cuomo that he thinks Republicans will get a “historic a** whooping” in the midterms “because there’s a message that has to be sent” by the half of the country that doesn’t like Donald Trump.

“I worry about 2028 on both sides because you know…I think both sides certainly have their crazies,” Maher said. “But that is business that will have to wait. The voters have one piece of business on their mind right now and that is, you know, half the country didn’t like Trump to begin with. Any chance to give him a thumping, they welcome.”

Plus, Maher said he thinks there’s a “lame duck aspect to this. This is the last run, and he’s just not King Kong anymore.”

“Do you believe that if Trump takes a beating, the party takes a beating — is that the same thing as saying that the Democrats made the case to the American people?” Cuomo asked.

“Absolutely not!” Maher exclaimed. “They have not renounced they are crazy at all. In fact, they’re going full steam ahead. That’s why I’m so worried about 2028. And a lot of the far-left will take it, Trump’s loss, they will misinterpret it as a recommendation for what they’re trying to do. You know, the whole thing with communism. And it is communism. I know Trump says it — that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. When you talk about taking over the means of production and taking over all the private industries, that’s communism, folks. You can look it up.”

Maher said the Democrats’ “crazy” includes acrimony toward Israel for its Gaza campaign.

“We’ll see if they can check themselves on that,” Maher said.

“But this election is just going to be about this one thing, which is Donald Trump. You just — and again, it is drunk on power. You know, it happens to both sides. They get in and just, job one is just ‘undoing the thing that the other a**hole did,’ you know, and that’s just no way to run a railroad,” Maher said.

“I mean, we always have these battles, of course, both parties, and we should. That’s our system,” Maher said. “But when it gets to be this vitriolic, this personal, this hateful, this just, ‘Everything you do, I just want to undo it and disavow it.’ And even when it makes sense not to, they’re just hate. When hate takes over, people stop listening to any of the logic.”

Watch the Maher interview on The Chris Cuomo Project, above.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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