“Finally, he got around to me.»
Bill Maher isn’t usually one to throw compliments Donald Trump’s way—but this week, even he couldn’t resist applauding the former president’s savvy play at winning over single-issue voters.
On a recent episode of Real Time, Maher laid it out: Trump knows how to “pick off voters issue by issue,” and now cannabis legalization could be the one that wins him over. His tone was gleefully defeated—like a parent watching a kid beat their high score.
Maher quipped, “I’ve been telling Democrats for years, the Republicans are gonna steal pot from you as an issue.” It wasn’t a rallying cry—it was the sound of a cynic admitting the game was one.
He drove it home with a riff on Trump’s playbook: “He’s the master at winning votes from small groups who are passionate about one issue, picking up a couple percent here, a couple there…” until Election Night turns into something like a bizarre Y-M-C-A celebration.
