While Bill Maher condemned the attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life last month in the shooting’s immediate aftermath, he recently admitted that the would-be assassination was his “favorite day of 2024.”
During an interview on The Daily Beast contributor Matt Friend’s podcast Friends In High Places, Maher said he felt it was fair game to get a little amusement out of the incident—because Trump survived. “It would be different if he got killed,” he clarified.
“A guy shoots Trump, the guy behind him gets shot and killed,” he said in reference to Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter who was fatally shot. (Two other rallygoers were seriously injured before the shooter was killed by authorities.) “That’s so Trump. It’s so on brand... it’s always somebody else holding the bullet or the bag.”
