Bill Maher has lashed out at a Yale psychiatrist who said it was okay to disown family members who voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatrist at the Ivy League school, had made the comments on MSNBC earlier this month after Trump’s election.
Speaking to Joy Reid, she said: ‘There’s a societal norm that if someone is your family, he or she is entitled to your time, and I think the answer is absolutely not like that.’
On his show Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian went after Calhoun while making a thought-provoking comparison.
Maher said, “How pure, it’s like not letting certain people sit on the bus with you,” as a photo of civil rights activist Ros Parks appeared next to him.
Maher continues: ‘She also said that it should not be automatic for family members to think they are entitled to your money.
“She said that’s just a societal norm,” before Maher said, “family, who do they think they are? Family?’ as his audience erupted in applause.
He showed a photo of Calhoun and added, “You know who I really wouldn’t want to have Thanksgiving dinner with.
‘This overly educated, extremely stupid academic from an ivory tower. But I would, because if we ever want this nation to heal, we have to do this.”
On his show Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian went after Calhoun as he made a stinging comparison to her comments to Rosa Parks
Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatrist at the Ivy League school, had made the comments on MSNBC earlier this month after Trump’s election
Reid had asked Calhoun for the answer after she started talking about the LGBTQ community and other minority groups feeling vulnerable after the election.
Calhoun previously made headlines last year when she said doctors should be forced to wear body cameras to catch racist people.
She wrote for The Boston Globe, “I have witnessed countless acts of racist behavior toward black patients, often accompanied by deliberate and cruel statements.”
“I’ve heard white nurses joke that young black children are likely to join gangs and doctors describe black people’s natural hair as ‘wild’ and ‘unkempt.’
Maher has not held back since Trump’s resounding election victory, and has wiped out both the far-left Liberal and Democratic parties in recent weeks.
Last week, he accused some Democrats of being “downright stupid” when he spoke about their losing campaign.
He said, “If you’re in a hole, stop digging, and don’t keep digging. Talk about doubling down on what caused you in the first place.”
Maher continued to mock them as he referred to “Queers for Palestine” T-shirts and those who “still wear masks, two years after the pandemic ended,” adding that Donald Trump supporters “don’t have a monopoly on stupidity.” .
Reid had asked Calhoun for the answer after she started talking about the LGBTQ community and other minority groups feeling vulnerable after the election.
Maher also teased the Teachers Union Education Program, which is largely controlled by Democratic voters, claiming they have “turned schools and colleges into a joke.”
The television host, who has appeared on popular daytime television shows such as The View and on CNN, compared the Liberal Party to a “Portlandia sketch.”
In addition to running as Democrats, he also castigated Donald Trump on Friday for his controversial cabinet choices.
He could barely contain his laughter as he sifted through nominees including Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
“The Republicans, man, when they grab power, they grab it by the p***y,” he began. “They don’t mess around.”
Maher noted that Gaetz dropped out as Trump’s nominee for attorney general amid controversy over a child sex trafficking investigation — in which he was not charged — and said Republicans decided he was “too despicable, even for us.”
He ended his monologue with a chuckle as he named WWE wrestling manager Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education.