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"He's A Draft Dodger" — This Former Marine DID NOT Hold Back When Asked About Trump's Military Parade
Ahead of Donald Trump's parade this past weekend, which was meant to celebrate the military's 250th anniversary (as well as, perhaps, his birthday), talk show host Bill Maher asked former Marine Corps officer and US Representative Seth Moulton for his thoughts on the spectacle. In a now-viral clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher asks Rep. Moulton, "As a veteran, what is your reaction to Trump's plans for a military parade?" Bill Maher: "As a veteran, what is your reaction to Trump's plans for a military parade?Rep. Seth Moulton: "He's a draft dodger, it's his first military thing he really gets to do. He likes Putin, he worships Kim Jung Un, he wants to be like them.' — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 1, 2025 HBO / Twitter: @RpsAgainstTrump His response had the studio audience bursting into laughter and applause. Related: Well, Well, Well, For The Second Time In 2 Weeks, People Are Letting JD Vance Know EXACTLY How They Feel About Him In Public "He's a draft dodger," Moulton said. "It's the first military thing he really gets to do." Moulton isn't the first to refer to Trump as a "draft dodger." Democratic Senator and Purple Heart recipient Tammy Duckworth previously referred to the 79-year-old as "Cadet Bone Spurs" as she spoke on Trump's previous politicization of the military. These critiques stem from a young Trump receiving not one, not two, not even three or four, but five military draft deferments during the Vietnam War. One of these deferments, according to the New York Times, was due to heel spurs, which left him unfit for active duty. This diagnosis reportedly came from a friend of his fathers. Related: This Dem Lawmaker Is Going Viral For His Extremely Shady Question To Secretary Kristi Noem Continuing his point, Moulton delivered a another jab: "Obviously, he likes Putin, he worships Kim Jong Un, he wants to be like them. He wants to be a dictator like those guys, and they have big military parades." Further, the representative considered the single-day parade's hefty price tag, which officials estimate to land somewhere between $25 and $40 million. "That could help a lot of vets," he said with a shrug as CNN anchor Jake Tapper chimed in with suggestions about how the money could have been diverted to Veterans Affairs offices to help vets directly. In response to the segment, some were quick to insist, "One veteran's words don't reflect the views of all veterans." Others, however, applauded Moulton's words. "Hell yes!" one person wrote. "Call it what it is — a coward who dodged service now wants to cosplay as a strongman? Disgraceful and dangerous." But what are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments. Also in In the News: This Conservative Said He Wears A Fake ICE Uniform For A Really, Really, Really Gross Reason Also in In the News: "Honestly Speechless At How Evil This Is": 26 Brutal, Brutal, Brutal Political Tweets Of The Week Also in In the News: "Let Them Eat Teslas": People At The "No Kings" Protests This Weekend Brought Signs That Were So Clever I'm Still Laughing About Them
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3 days ago
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Bill Maher defends Trump meeting after Sean Penn criticism: 'You were just triggered'
Bill Maher defends Trump meeting after Sean Penn criticism: 'You were just triggered' Show Caption Hide Caption Bill Maher brushes off liberal critics ahead of Trump meeting Comedian Bill Maher is planning a White House meeting with Donald Trump, facilitated by Kid Rock, despite years of political criticism. Straight Arrow News Bill Maher still has no regrets about his dinner with President Donald Trump. During a conversation with Sean Penn on the latest episode of his "Club Random" podcast, the "Real Time" host again defended his decision to meet with Trump at the White House earlier this year. Penn said that the comedian was "smart" to go to the dinner, but also expressed some reservations about Maher's monologue on his HBO show where he described how Trump was a different person in private than he is in public. "When you talked about it on the show, I would have preferred that I saw (Trump's) mission, or his will to have the dinner, I wish I would have seen it as less successful," Penn said. Maher quickly pushed back, arguing that Trump's mission wasn't "successful" because he did not stop criticizing the president afterwards. "It would have been successful if he had somehow seduced me into supporting him," the comedian said. Bill Maher's full monologue on his Donald Trump meeting: Read the transcript To that point, Penn told Maher he could have had "more brevity" in his monologue about the dinner, saying the comedian should have "done some editing" and said something simple like, "You know what? He treated me fine. That's that." But Maher dismissed this criticism, telling the actor, "You were just triggered." Penn also said that he personally would "not accept" an invitation to have dinner with Trump, as he "wouldn't trust" anything that was said. Maher took issue with this, arguing that "it's not a matter of trusting" what happens during a dinner with Trump but is about "seeing" and "experiencing" it. Maher also said he merely reported on the fact that Trump acted like a "very different guy" in private, but Penn suggested this could have simply been a performance. Bill Maher breaks silence on Trump dinner: 'No, I didn't go MAGA' Later, Penn said he doesn't feel like he would "get anywhere" if he were to meet Trump, but Maher said this is a "bad attitude" and that Penn doesn't "know anything." He also called the actor "crazy" for not wanting to meet with the president and vowed to "get you an invite." Maher met with Trump at the White House and subsequently discussed their dinner during a monologue on his show in April, saying that the president was "much more self-aware than he lets on in public." Celebrities tell all about aging, marriage and Beyoncé in these 10 bingeable memoirs "Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage," Maher said at the time. "I'm just taking it as a positive that this person exists, because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on this night with this guy." Maher received some pushback for meeting with Trump and his subsequent monologue, which inspired Larry David to publish a satirical essay in The New York Times written from the perspective of a person who met with Adolf Hitler and came away impressed. Maher fired back at David's essay, telling Piers Morgan, "I think the minute you play the 'Hitler' card, you've lost the argument." Contributing: KiMi Robinson
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3 days ago
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‘They got us into this': Indiana Democrat says party leaders cannot lead fightback
When George Hornedo, 34, was still deciding whether to run in the Democratic primary for Indiana's seventh congressional district against longtime incumbent André Carson, a party elder looked him in the eyes and said: 'You are gonna get hurt.' Hornedo went home that day and posted a TikTok video recounting the encounter. According to him, it highlighted the reality of the Democratic party. 'The people in charge don't just fight Republicans, they fight anybody who challenges them,' Hornedo said. 'That's not democracy, that's machine politics.' Hornedo is one of many young insurgents challenging the party's status quo across the country. With months to go before primaries take place for the 2026 midterms, even some within the party hierarchy have backed efforts to disrupt the political lineup after Democrats lost the presidency and both chambers in Congress in November. In February 2025, the Democratic National Committee, the party's executive leadership board, elected David Hogg, 25, as one of its vice-chairs. Hogg pledged to use his position to unseat incumbents in safe districts. On Real Time with Bill Maher, he said: 'I do not care if you have been there for decades or for one term: that seat is not yours, it is your constituents.' (Hogg has since left the committee after months of internal debate.) In Indianapolis, at the end of April, Hornedo was busy trying to appeal to constituents and show them he can be an alternative to the party's old-guard. Dressed in sweatpants and a black hoodie, he had just finished cutting weeds at a community event by Fall Creek in Indianapolis when he spoke about the challenges facing the Democratic party. 'We're just trying to go where people are civically engaged, because they're probably voters,' Hornedo said. And if they're not, they can be. But right now, most voters aren't active in Democratic politics anywhere. So how do we help people see themselves in our party? I think that's important.' Raised in Laredo and San Antonio, Texas, before moving to Indianapolis because of his dad's job, Hornedo calls himself a 'Hoosier by way of Texas'. His candidacy, Hornedo said, is not about him or about Carson, but about 'whether the government can work for people that need it the most.'. 'The real divide in the party is not left versus center and not even young versus old,' Hornedo said. 'The reality is that, with Trump and Musk dismantling things day in and day out, when Democrats come back in power, we are not walking back into a government that resembles that of which we knew. And I just don't think that the leaders that got us into this are the ones that are going to get us out of it.' Hornedo criticizes Carson as one of the least effective lawmakers in Congress, pointing to the ranking of the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University's Center for Effective Lawmaking, that sees Carson ranked 197th out of 220 Democrats in the 118th Congress for effectiveness. The center defines that using 15 metrics, including the number of bills sponsored, their progress, and their substantive significance. Carson, 50, has held his seat for 17 years. He never had a competitive primary since he took over the seat of his grandmother, Julia Carson, in 2008. He has a strong base of support and has already held a town hall with House Democratic Whip, Katherine Clark on 2 May. Sign up to Headlines US Get the most important US headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning after newsletter promotion Carson responded to Hornedo's criticism that Clark showing up to the event was a sign that the party worried about Carson's race. At a press conference after the event, Carson scoffed at Hornedo's comments. 'I have to remind folks that we had Speaker Pelosi in town, President Barack Obama, President Biden,' Carson said. 'These were official events, not campaigning events. He probably does not remember because he was not living here.' Before launching his grassroots campaign, Hornedo, a lawyer, spent years inside the Democratic party machine. He worked on Obama's 2012 inaugural committee, handled press for Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch and advised Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign. 'I came up with this idea of radical proportionality. In one phrase: how do we align the scale of our solutions to the scale of our challenges?' Hornedo said. 'I don't care if a solution is up into the left, up into the center, up into the right. I just care that we're moving up and actually doing a better job of trying to meet people's needs in solving these challenges.' When asked if the party has an internal ideological struggle and which side he's eventually on, Hornedo dismissed the framing. 'I've been called a dem socialist, I've been called a moderate. My answer to that is: 'Call me whatever you want, just call me effective.''
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4 days ago
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Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett explains why sitcom won't ever get reboot
Any hope for an Everybody Loves Raymond reboot has been extinguished by star Brad Garrett. The 65-year old, who appeared in the sitcom as Robert Barone, addressed rumours of a reboot while attending the premiere of his new film. Disney Pixar's Elio. Garrett said the main reason the show could never return is due to the deaths of Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, who played Romano's parents in the series. Roberts died aged 90 in 2016, while Boyle died in 2006, shortly after the show ended. Roberts won four Emmys for her performance as the feisty matriarch, Marie. 'There is no show without the parents,' Garrett told People. 'They were the catalyst, and to do anything that would resemble that wouldn't be right to the audiences or to the loyal fan base. And it was about those two families, and you can't get around that.' Everybody Loves Raymond, which starred Ray Romano as the titular character, ran between 1996 and 2005. The popular series followed Raymond's life as a sports journalist and a busy family man, and was celebrated for its comic depiction of family life in Long Island, New York. Although Garrett said he'd never reprise his role of Romano's brother, he said he feels 'very grateful' looking back at his experience, adding: 'I know the reboot won't happen, but 30 years later, I got very lucky to get on that bus.' Romano previously shared his thoughts on the possibility of a reboot. 'As far as a reboot, well, it's now out of the question because unfortunately the parents are gone: Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts,' he said on Real Time with Bill Maher back in 2023. In recent years, various US shows received the reboot treatment, with examples including And Just Like That, a continuation of Sex and the City , HBO Max's doomed Gossip Girl revamp and Frasier, which was axed by Paramount after two seasons. Romano said of reboots in 2023: 'They're never as good. We want to leave our legacy with what it is.'
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Bill Maher Loses His Cool With Hollywood Star Over Notorious Trump Dinner
Bill Maher lashed out at his guest Sean Penn during the latest episode of the Club Random podcast when the Hollywood star questioned his decision to dine with Trump. Maher brought up his controversial dinner with Donald Trump, and Penn responded by raising concerns over how Maher had handled the visit to the White House. That prompted a furious response from Maher who attacked Madonna's ex-husband over his own dining companions. 'Really, you'll meet with f---ing Castro and Hugo Chavez but not the President of the United States?' he asked. Maher's dinner with Trump, which was set up by their mutual friend Kid Rock, took place in April. At the time Maher defended the dinner by saying, 'There's got to be something better than hurling insults from 3000 miles away.' The two and a half hour dinner was then detailed on Real Time With Bill Maher, where Maher said they had discussed the Gaza War, Iran and Trump teasing a third-term presidency. Over cigars, booze and cigarettes on Club Random, Maher asked Penn, 'You do—I hope—think I did the right thing to have dinner with him?' Penn said, 'Absolutely, you're so smart, you go there... look this is the President of the United States, whether we like it or not, it doesn't matter. There's a lot of reasons I was speculating that... it would be good for you to do that.' The actor said he watched Maher cover the dinner on Real Time but wished it had been 'less successful.' Maher hit back at the suggestion he had painted Trump in a good light. 'It was less successful because I never stopped saying all the things I've always said about him,' Maher said. 'It would have been successful if he had somehow seduced me into supporting him. So it wasn't successful.' Penn fired back that Maher could have done more 'editing' in relaying the details of dinner, suggesting the host could have simply said, 'He treated me fine, that's that.' The actor has humanitarian, journalistic and political interests outside of his movie career, including tracking down Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in his hideaway to try and tie up a movie deal. Penn said he had never been invited to dinner with Trump. 'The only reason I would not accept an invitation is... it's a long flight,' he said. Maher then clapped back, 'Really, you'll meet with f---ing Castro and Hugo Chavez but not the President of the United States?' The Oscar-winner has had well-documented meetings with Cuban president Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl and firebrand Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Penn stumbled slightly before replying 'I, I, saw good results come out of some of those things...' When Maher interjected, Penn clarified, 'I just personally wouldn't trust anything that was said in the room including personality.' Maher hit back, 'It's not a matter of trusting it, it's a matter of seeing it, a matter of experiencing it, knowing it... I'm telling you, there's a very different guy behind closed doors in a different setting.' Maher went on to say he could try to broker Penn an invite to a Trump dinner in the future, to potentially discuss political or charity issues. 'I would not fool myself that... I was going to get anywhere with him,' Penn squirmed. 'I know that I wouldn't, I know that I would have no influence.' Maher said Penn had a 'bad attitude' and noted 'I'll tell you this about Donald Trump and you don't know it because you don't go to dinners... it's all about personal relationships... I will get you an invite. He's a starf---r in a way. I bet you he would like to meet you.'
