Invoice Maher pushes again on 'zombie lie' about Trump-Putin after Alaska assembly

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"Actual Time" host Invoice Maher pushed again towards the concept that President Donald Trump is "Putin’s bi--h" after Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

"Let’s not have the zombie lie that [Trump] remains to be backing Putin," Maher advised his panel. "To start with, he bombed Iran, that was a Putin ally. He didn’t get out of NATO. He mended fences with NATO. And he put sanctions again on Russia."

After a three-hour assembly between Trump and Putin in Alaska, the place the 2 mentioned the continued struggle in Ukraine, Trump called the meeting "very warm" in an unique interview with Fox Information host Sean Hannity.

He additionally mentioned Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy need him to attend the subsequent assembly.

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Hours after that interview, Maher confessed the "one factor" he is aware of about Trump.

If anyone is the type of individual that may "see the great in anyone," this might be "the great" in Trump, the late-night host teased.

"He actually does hate struggle," Maher insisted. "He actually doesn't prefer it when individuals die in struggle."

Certainly one of Maher’s panelists, County Freeway editor-at-large Walter Kirn, added some wit to the dialogue.

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"You’re actually coming round, Invoice," Kirn joked.

"I’m not coming round," Maher countered, insisting he’s not "on anybody’s group." He went on to name his assertion "true s--t."

President Donald Trump hosted Invoice Maher on the White Home alongside their mutual buddy Child Rock. (Getty Photos)

The duo had a sterner dialogue when Maher first launched the "zombie lie" about Trump’s relationship with Putin.

"I believe it’s type of a zombie lie that Trump is Putin’s, you realize, bi--h," Maher started. "As a result of he was definitely over pleasant to him for a really very long time, contemplating who Putin is. A thug and a assassin."

"In 2015, Obama met [Putin] and no person mentioned something," Kirn retorted.

"He met him, he didn’t reward him," Maher argued. "He didn’t say he’s the best man on this planet. I may learn 20 compliments that Trump has given to him."

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Trump has repeatedly called Putin "smart" and blamed former President Joe Biden for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, together with on the 2022 Conservative Political Motion Convention.

President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they meet to barter an finish to the struggle in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

"The issue isn't that Putin is sensible, which, in fact, he’s good," Trump advised the gang. "The actual downside is that our leaders are dumb. They've allowed him to get away with this travesty and this assault on humanity."

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The Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research estimates the full variety of casualties within the struggle in Ukraine to be 1.4 million since February 2022.

Stephanie Samsel is a digital manufacturing assistant at Fox Information Digital. She has beforehand written for Campus Reform and the Media Analysis Middle, masking political bias in schooling and leisure. Observe her on X @StephSamsel.