Truth Social News: Trump’s Longest Post Ever Targets Maher
President Donald Trump has written the longest social media post of his career, and he spent every one of its 1,323 words on comedian Bill Maher. The Truth Social post, published on Sunday night, opened by calling Maher a “complete and total loser” in capital letters and ended with a curt dismissal: “Bill: Don’t call anymore.” According to a CNN analysis and a third-party tracking firm, it is the longest post Trump has ever published — and the latest collapse of a brief, unlikely truce between a president and one of his most persistent critics.
The length alone made the post news. The operators of the Factbase database, which tracks the president’s social media output, said it was Trump’s longest post out of more than 97,000 catalogued since 2011. It was nearly twice as long as his previous record, a 723-word post from May that began with complaints about the plumbing and air conditioning at the Kennedy Center before veering into attacks on a federal judge and his wife, the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and birthright citizenship.
Truth Social News: The Longest Post of His Career
The targets were Maher, his business partner Chuck LaBella and the HBO network that carries Maher’s show. Trump called Maher a “major POTHEAD,” a “coward” and a “dumb SLEAZEBAG,” mocked his “Low Rated Show” on what he called “equally Low Rated HBO,” and contrasted it with his own past television success, describing The Apprentice as a “Top Hit Show.” He claimed Maher had repeatedly pleaded with him to appear on Real Time, writing: “When I became President, I agreed to meet, after the first one, and the last one, but never agreed to do his show, which he wants me to do, DESPARATELY — It won’t happen!”
He also accused Maher of dishonesty about the laughter on his programme, suggesting the show uses a laugh track. “Bill Maher lied, but he lies about everything,” Trump wrote, asking what “Laughter Machine” Maher uses, “with all the applause and laughter he gets after almost everything he says, about thing that aren’t funny or even any good.” He added: “People can’t think he’s funny.” And he threatened to cut off the comedian’s supply of Republican guests: “I’m going to have the Republicans not cover you anymore” — a line whose meaning was unclear, since it could have referred either to Republicans agreeing to appear on Maher’s show or to Fox News and other right-wing channels playing clips from his monologues. Trump closed with his customary sign-off, “Thank you for your attention to this matter” — eight words that, as CNN observed, may never have been more appropriately deployed.
The Friday Show That Set It Off
The post was a response to Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time, Maher’s first episode since dining with Trump at the White House on October 15. On the show, Maher had defended his decision to return to the president’s table, telling his critics in blunt terms: “I’m the bad guy because I go and say face-to-face to the man the things you write in articles that he’ll never read.” He added: “You know what? Fuck you. I like these dinners.” Maher had wondered aloud on Friday night whether his monologue would land him back in Trump’s doghouse. By Sunday, he had his answer.
The Friday episode was a notable one beyond the monologue. Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was a featured guest, along with Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate for governor of California, and Andy Beshear, the Democratic governor of Kentucky. CNN re-aired the episode on Saturday. On the show, Maher had described the dinner in detail, rattling off a long list of subjects he said he had challenged Trump on, including the Supreme Court, Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump’s treatment of Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the 2020 election. “We should talk,” Maher said. “I’m glad that we talked.” He also credited Trump with remaining composed throughout their disagreements — a compliment that evidently did not survive the weekend.
Two Dinners and a Dispute Over Four Hours
The dinner at the centre of the row was the second time Trump and Maher had shared a meal at the White House. The first came in March 2025, arranged with the help of musician Kid Rock, and it produced a brief thaw: Trump said afterwards that Maher “gave me a good first show,” before adding that the comedian had then “reverted back to his former self, and his old ways.” The second dinner, on October 15, included ESPN host Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock alongside the two men. Smith described the evening on his podcast the next day, saying the group had been at the White House for more than four hours and that “Donald Trump did not run from any questions.”
Maher repeated the four-hour estimate on his show, and it became one of the details Trump seized on in his post. “Overall, I thought it was a good meeting,” Trump wrote. “It didn’t last four hours, it lasted two hours, maybe less, and everybody was happy. We have the timestamps. I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time.” The day after the dinner, Trump had struck a very different tone, calling it a “great dinner” and saying Maher “likes me a lot more than people understand, and I actually like him.” Nine days later, that warmth was gone. The swing — from praise to a record-length denunciation in little more than a week — captures the pattern of the relationship: a truce that holds until the next television appearance, then collapses in public.
Trump also wrote that LaBella, Maher’s business partner, had lobbied hard to get Maher invited back, “saying how much Bill loves me, that he respects me more than anybody, and wants to come back for a second meeting.” His instruction to LaBella was as blunt as the one to Maher: tell him “not to call so much, and say how much you love ‘TRUMP,’ and want to get together, because you’re a hopeless guy, who is just trying to cater to your small group of ‘fans.'” The personal details in the post were striking even by the standards of the feud. He concluded with a verdict on the show that followed the dinner: “After the second dinner, Bill’s ‘show’ was far worse than the first. He went crazy! He’s gutless.”
A Feud With Years of History
The dinner saga is only the latest chapter in a feud that stretches back more than a decade. Trump once sued Maher over a joke in which the comedian suggested the then-businessman’s father was an orangutan — a lawsuit that became one of the stranger footnotes of Trump’s pre-political career. The two men have traded insults in public ever since, through Trump’s first presidency, his years out of office and his return to the White House.
The first dinner in March 2025 was supposed to be a reset. But the goodwill never survived contact with Maher’s monologue. After the first dinner, Maher returned to his show and resumed mocking the president; Trump, in turn, called the dinner a waste of time on Truth Social, and the feud ran on through the summer. Maher apologised on air in August after making an incorrect claim about Trump, a rare concession in a relationship defined by escalation.
The second dinner in October was framed by both sides as a second chance. Smith’s account of the evening — four hours, no question dodged — suggested a genuine conversation. Maher’s account on Friday was warmer still, describing a president who listened and stayed composed. But the monologue also contained the jokes and the criticism that have always been Maher’s stock in trade, and by Sunday night the president had decided that the jokes outweighed the warmth. What changed this time was the scale: a 1,323-word post is not a passing insult but an essay, and its length suggests the depth of the irritation.
The Poll Claims — and the Fact Check
A large part of the post was devoted to defending Trump’s standing with his own party. Maher had suggested on Friday that the president was suffering his lowest ratings and losing support among Republicans. Trump rejected the claim outright, writing: “I have High Ratings and, more importantly, he said that I’m losing the support and approval of the Republican Party when, in fact, CNN just came out with a Poll showing that I’m at 98 and 99% support within the Republican Party, an All Time Record High.”
The claim did not survive scrutiny. CNN’s most recent poll, released last week, showed Trump with 74 per cent approval among Republicans — described by the network as “a new numeric low.” The 98 and 99 per cent figures appear to refer to a weeks-old video clip of CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, who highlighted another network’s poll finding that self-professed MAGA Republicans still back the president almost unanimously. Trump has been showing that clip approvingly at midterm rallies. But the Republican Party contains many millions of voters who do not describe themselves as MAGA Republicans, and Trump has repeatedly conflated his most loyal base with the broader party — a distinction the fact-check drew in sharp terms.
The Real News Inside the Rant: The Press Corps
The most consequential sentence in the post may prove to be the one about the press. Buried inside the tirade was a genuine piece of news: Trump confirmed recent reports that he has considered evicting the reporters who cover him from the White House workspace the press corps has used for decades. “I am thinking about moving the Press, and putting them in a different location, but I will use that location for very badly needed space,” he wrote. The line turned what might have been dismissed as a late-night rant into a story with consequences for the White House press corps — and for the relationship between the president and the journalists who cover him.
What happens next will play out on two stages. The first is Maher’s: Real Time airs on Fridays, and his response to the longest post of Trump’s career will be closely watched. The second is the White House briefing room, where the press corps will want to know whether the aside about their workspace was a passing thought or a decision in waiting.
Source: CNN