Bill Maher Says Thanksgiving Is For Fighting About Trump — ‘The Other Butterball’

Comic and pundit Bill Maher called former President Donald Trump “The Other Butterball” in a rant about not feeling the need to share your opinion on Thanksgiving — or any other time.

On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the comic’s panel guests were Donna Brazile and Adam Kinzinger, and his interview guests were authors and comedy legends Albert Brooks and Rob Reiner.

During his “New Rules” segment, Maher zinged Trump as he bemoaned the ill-informed opinions emanating from places like TikTok on very conceivable subject:

And finally, new rule. There’s nothing wrong with not having an opinion on something. Especially if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. And if you’re getting your facts from Tik Tok and Instagram and Facebook, I don’t want to hear your hot take on asymmetrical warfare because there’s a term for someone who gets their news from Facebook. Mom.

You know, among the worst things that social media ever did was it made everyone feel they had to weigh in on every controversial issue or breaking news story. And that’s my job.

In the olden days, people would watch the evening news and then, well, nothing. They went on. They went on with their lives.

But today, everybody’s got to share their theory on everything, whether it’s trans women on the swim team or whether dwarves should play non dwarves in the Snow White movie. But has, has anyone noticed, that the more time everyone spends telling everyone else their political position at every everything, the more we’ve been at each other’s throats? Here’s a trend I would love to see on Twitter. No opinion. Where people take issues like the debt limit and climate science and post “I don’t know shit about this.”.

Thursday is Thanksgiving, the cherished yearly celebration when distant friends and scattered family members gather together to fight about Donald Trump. The other Butterball.

But not just Trump will also argue about abortion and critical race theory and guns in prisons and schools. And this year, we’re fighting about Israel.

But here’s the thing. You’re not actually legally obliged to have an opinion.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.