'Real Time' Crowd Stunned as Bill Maher Gives His Unexpected Take on Iran
Dave Rubin hosts the March 9, 2026 episode, analyzing Bill Maher's support for military strikes against Iran's "fascist theocracy" while opposing ground troops. He contrasts this with Democratic intellectual dishonesty regarding evacuation plans and critiques Tucker Carlson's nuclear escalation fears. The discussion shifts to NYC Mayor Zorhan Mamdami's false claim that white supremacists targeted him, exposing instead that naturalized citizens Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi threw a TATP bomb yelling "Allahu Akbar." Rubin condemns media misreporting and links these events to broader Democratic failures on border security, arguing their policies create chaos akin to civil war zones. [Automatically generated summary]
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It's Monday, and that means we have to sometimes noodle, sometimes nudge, and sometimes credit my friend Bill Maher for what he's doing on real time on Friday nights over there on HBO.
And a lot of people were looking at this past Friday episode going, what is he going to do?
Because he's still a lefty.
He still, I think, considers himself a Democrat.
You guys get it.
He's good on the important issues like free speech, broke bread with Trump, but still somehow comes around to Democrat positions.
Okay, fine.
But now that we are in the midst of this Iran war, where was he going to fall out on it?
Okay, so we'll talk about the content in just a second, but I do want to give Bill, Bill, in case you're watching today, you're going to be happy with me.
You're going to have some copal sequela and toast to Dave because you deserve credit for first, and I think in a weird way, most importantly, doing something as an entertainer that's very hard to do.
Bill had no idea which way his audience was going to go there.
I've been to that show many times.
Often his audience is still more left than he is.
He has been largely anti-war, if you want to use that phrase, for most of his career, right?
Was wildly against the Iraq war and some of the other early adventures through George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, et cetera, et cetera.
So for him to get up there and say, I'm kind of for this thing.
Now, he doesn't want troops on the ground.
I don't want troops on the ground.
Okay, fine.
But that's pretty impressive.
He doesn't know if his audience is going to boo or applaud.
And then they kind of came around with him, which was great.
And I also think it was solid that he said, I know too many Iranian Americans that are happy about this, right?
I think that shows, well, he's in LA.
There's a ton of Iranians there.
They are celebrating about this.
But it's just as an entertainer, I can tell you to go to a audience, a live audience somewhere, whether it's your own show or you show up at a theater or whatever, and do something that's potentially against your audience, not the easiest thing.
So he deserves credit for that.
He then was noodling the, oh, and of course, just on the content side, the fact that, yes, Iran has been involved in virtually everything bad coming out of the Middle East since 1979.
Virtually every act of terrorism, whether they directly do it or they fund it like Hezbollah or they fund terrorism in Latin America or Hamas or elsewhere, like everything has gone through Iran.
You would think that Zoom would be off the hook right now.
Zoom downloads would be pretty high up in Iran right now.
But yes, so they, you know, they took out Khomeini and his main guys.
Then they had another meeting.
They took out all those guys.
So they've taken out sort of the political leadership.
They've taken out, I think it was 47 of the top generals.
The war, and we'll get to Pete Hegzeth in a little bit, continues to march on in a pretty positive way.
But I want to show you one more clip from the episode because this was rather brilliant.
This was rather brilliant.
You know, I'm a big fan of receipts, right?
You're on a show, you take out some notes and you call out the BS of usually the host because if you're a sane person, you're going to be somewhat on the right and you're going to have to call out the nonsensical drivel of the lefty host.
But watch what Bill Maher did right here to Adam Schiff.
The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.
The people that are screaming right now about congressional authorization had no problem when Obama went in to Libya.
They had no problem when Bill Clinton, who is in the midst of the Lewinsky affair, was dropping bombs all over the place to distract people.
The president does have authority at least for 90 days to coordinate a war.
And he is the chief executive of the country.
And he is the leader.
And he is allowed to do that.
And if it was a Democrat, they would all be for it.
We all know that.
And the other interesting thing that's been happening here is, so Trump, I think, has been very clear on what's going on here.
And we showed you the video last week of him talking about Iran 40 years ago, right?
And that when he ran in 2016, the whole idea he was running on Iran will not get a bomb, blah, blah, blah.
So he's been wildly consistent.
Then you've got Marco Rubio, who everybody, I mean, even the people that kind of hate Rubio are like, this guy, no one's walking around going, Rubio doesn't know what he's doing.
You might say you don't like what he's doing or you don't agree, but nobody doesn't think this guy's competent.
He's highly competent.
And then you have Pete Hegseth, who has just been an absolute all-star communicator.
So I thought this was good.
This is my buddy Adam Carolla calling out the Democrats because they're basically all they're saying now, because the war is going well thus far.
It's war.
Crazy things can happen.
We'll see.
But so far, we're doing everything we laid out to do with minimal blowback.
And all the Dems keep saying over and over again is that we don't have a plan.
You know, usually when there is a plan, when they go out and they know they're going to do some, they're going to bomb somebody, they've talked to the American embassies to find out how many people are here, how many people are here.
So they have some sort of plan to get them out.
Is it always smooth?
No, but there is some sort of plan to get them out.
Mullahs in Iran, this is, again, Rubio's characterization, are madmen and they believe in holy war and they believe in killing the crusaders of the United States and the Jews of Israel.
Into the region, we don't care if you live or die to not make the distinction between like civilians and combatants just also strikes me as like wildly self-defeating at just the sort of tactical level.
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Yes.
It's a moral abomination.
And yes, it's tactically stupid.
They bombed a submarine and just let the sailors drown to death.
These people, that Muppet right there, out of all of them, that we're not making a distinction between civilians and military.
You see how they're going to start.
This is what the left is going to do.
The two years of the Israel-Hamas war was a test for the West.
Do you have the balls to do the right thing?
Do you have the balls to defend yourselves?
And will you fall for these ridiculously guilt-ridden arguments?
So Chris Hayes right there, that buffoonish Muppet talking to an Islamist, he is saying that we are not making any distinction.
We're not just randomly bombing Iran all over the place.
We're not just throwing bombs into Tehran like, oh, let's find out where all the restaurants are and kill as many people as possible.
Actually, that's what the Iranian regime was doing to their people, at least 40,000 of them.
We are hitting military installations.
We are hitting critical infrastructure.
We are damaging the regime so hopefully the people will be able to take over their country.
Now, as I keep saying, we don't know if that will happen.
Everything can go sideways.
War.
It's messed up.
Somebody put that on a bumper sticker.
But the implication, Chris Hayes, he's not only lying, but it's the most disgusting possible thing you could say as our military men, as our service members are now flying over Iran, right?
As they are doing extraordinary things that that little Muppet with a hand up his butt would never do, could never do.
Like he's implying that they're just killing innocent people.
And that buffoon Islamist, Mehdi, whatever, went on to basically say that the American army is worse than the Nazis.
I mean, these are just terrible people.
Also, Whoopi completely made that up, that there's no plan here and we haven't evacuated people off bases and embassies and everything else.
We played you a video last week of Rubio talking about how we're making sure that our citizens in these countries are taken care of and that they have evacuated people out of Israel and some of the other Gulf nations.
If this is a country and its proxies that are continually attacking us and our allies have active assassination plots against President Trump, there was a guy convicted in federal court this week.
Connected to that, I mean, where do you draw the line between something being imminent or not?
You know, I don't know if I've ever said this on the show, but that guy needs to find Jesus.
I mean, what?
And you might go, all right, it's just performative, whatever.
And this guy was a mainstream Bill Clinton campaign leading Democrat for decades.
He's also the buffoon who I went on real time with Bill Maher with and had to explain the very fine people hoax.
And then he literally just crumbled into the, he was like, crumbled into the table.
But that level, what are you upset about right now?
Like, I get it.
You don't like Trump and okay, fine.
But what are you, you're frothing at the mouth like a dog with rabies, screaming, screaming into your webcam about Donald Trump.
What, what has, what horrible thing has happened over the, what are we, 10 days into this thing, basically, nine days, something like that?
We lost a few servicemen, and that actually is horrible, but I'm going to guess you're not going to mention any of their names when you're screaming into your webcam.
That is, I think we've lost six or eight, something like that.
And that is terrible, actually.
And that is the cost of war.
That is the cost of defending freedom.
But what are you screaming about?
That we might free the Iranian people?
That we might take out the number one state sponsor of terrorism?
that we might hamper the people who are exporting more oil to China when we are in a sort of collision of societies with China?
Like, what are you screaming about?
I don't think you know other than you hate Trump and that's why you're screaming.
So now let's jump to Palantir CEO Alex Karp.
I love showing you videos from this guy who just calmly explains here the mental condition of the modern progressive.
What that is, is a beautiful explanation of the phrase that I've been mentioning relentlessly in the upcoming book by my friend Gad Saad, which is suicidal empathy.
We'll have a bit more on that psychological notion in just a little bit.
But his point, which of course doesn't surprise you, is that virtually everything they do, they had a war on competency.
So everything, the systems all got worse, right?
Our education system got worse.
Everything in the government got worse.
They decided to hire people based on genitals and which genitals they like in their mouth and blah, And that's not how you hire, say, a secretary of defense.
It's just not old school.
What can I tell you?
And then, of course, that you have to know how occasionally you have to use force or at least show the world you might occasionally use force.
So again, when all of this is happening in Iran right now, what do you think China is thinking?
You think they're going, all right, now's our chance.
Take Taiwan.
Or are they going, boy, this Trump guy's a little nutty.
He took Venezuela.
They're basically fixing up Iran.
It sounds like we're about to move on Cuba too.
He has the new Monroe Trump doctrine.
We better ease up.
So they crush the system through incompetence.
And then they don't even use the basic tools of a powerful nation, which is what we still are, although they would wish that we weren't.
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All right, let's continue with the war situation and we're going to bust out.
Now, we've also forget, you know, that, you know, really, the Democratic Party ever since 10-7 has been absolutely wrong about the dynamic in the Middle East now.
Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.
Imagine if they were pushed into a ceasefire in the summer of 24.
Hamas would still be intact.
Hezbollah would be intact.
And Iran could very much have acquired a nuclear weapon by that point.
But Netanyahu was able to push through that, broke and destroyed Hamas.
Same with Hezbollah, and was able to go after Iran and break them down.
And then I was the only Democrat that supported President Trump, struck the nuclear facilities last summer.
And now, and that made significant civic kinds of damage.
You got Whoopi and you got Dan Goldman and you got the rest of these clowns going, Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
There's no plan.
We don't know what's happening here.
And there you have a man who had brain damage clearly explaining that we have consistently over the last couple years of the Trump administration degraded the number one state sponsor of terror.
We killed Ayatollah Khomeini, right?
Everyone was like, oh my God, you're never going to get that guy.
We killed him, all his buddies.
Then they had the meeting again, and that didn't go well for them.
Like we are doing good things.
And it takes a little bit, it takes a little bit of belief in America.
And it takes, I don't know, a guy like Pete Hegseth coming in, renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, getting rid of DEI, making soldiers proud to be Americans again, and then having a little imagination.
I really think that's part of it here.
The left also has no imagination.
They just live here and now and they're constantly looking at every little dust bunny and figuring out what's wrong with it.
But having a little imagination that America could do good again.
For those of you a certain age, you don't remember the 80s.
We used to be able to do good things and it was awesome.
And people were excited to be American and export Americanism and know that capitalism was good.
But they've created the conditions where people just have no imagination anymore.
They have no belief anymore.
But we better freaking get back to it.
Hegset's trying to drag us there by doing the right thing when it comes to military messaging.
I mean, I can't tell you every political or philosophical or religious belief of that Saudi crown prince right there back from 2018.
But he's making the point that Iran was expansionist, meaning they set up proxies in other countries to do their bidding, right?
Lebanon has been basically a failed state.
Lebanon, which everyone used to say is Beirut will be the Paris of the Middle East.
That's what everyone said in the 70s and 80s.
And it was a Christian nation.
They allow the Islamists to come in.
And then Hezbollah runs Lebanon.
So they have a state within a state that now, thanks to Israel for degrading, now the Lebanese army is suddenly saying, hey, we might boot Hezbollah out.
That's good.
Qatar over the weekend, I don't even think we're covering this today.
Maybe we'll hit on it a bit more tomorrow.
Qatar is now announcing because Iran attacked Qatar, they're finally going to boot the Hamas leadership out.
Like things are so fundamentally changing.
And yet you have the usual cast of characters pretending nothing's changing.
Here's just a quick video of just some of the strikes on Tehran over the last couple of days.
Now, contrary to what Chris Hayes said, they are hitting oil refineries.
They are hitting critical infrastructure.
They are hitting regime strongholds.
Those are not explosions from hitting some random apartment where people live.
I mean, that guy should be fired.
Like he should just be fired.
And that's not cancel culture.
Whatever it is he purports to be an impartial journalist is the furthest thing from what he is.
Speaking of someone who I think purports to be an impartial journalist, but has become, I would say, basically the most ridiculous, ludicrous, I don't know, mentally unstable pundit, certainly on the right.
We covered him quite extensively on Friday.
Tucker Carlson, who blurbed, don't burn this book, by the way.
Here he is explaining, you know, he's been very against this war, which, by the way, you can be against a war and that can be perfectly fine.
But here he is explaining what some of his problems with Trump's policies.
Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter if they want.
And everyone knows that.
And that has been, if there's one consistent lesson of history, it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and daughter.
Everyone can feel that.
That's like the most atavistic instinct there is.
And so to avoid that, people will do anything.
And so in this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary.
I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it.
I just don't think we can do that.
It would require weapons of mass destruction.
It would require presumably nuclear weapons in order to do that.
Tucker, who I'm telling you, if you just want like my blue sky thing with this guy, is every single thing he says is a lie.
Every single statement that comes out of his lie is out of his mouth is a lie or a confusion or obfuscation.
First off, the implication.
Now, I don't want troops on the ground.
Bill Maher doesn't want troops on the ground.
I don't know anyone that wants troops on the ground.
The idea here is we're going to degrade the regime enough so that the Persian people will take back their country, that Pavlovi will come back.
It's not going to be easy.
That is the idea here.
There might be some Kurds on the ground with weapons.
We'll see about that.
But the implication that somehow if they just give up, right?
What he's basically saying is if the Iranians give up, that we're going to come in and rape their women and kill them.
It's completely absurd.
It's wildly offensive.
And also that we're going to nuke them, that we're going to nuke them.
Like, come on.
If we wanted to nuke them, we could have done it on, well, you know what?
We could have done it 30 years ago.
We could have done it 20 years ago, 10 years ago, two weeks ago, or yesterday.
And we haven't, right?
We're not looking.
We are different.
But I don't think he likes America.
I don't think he actually believes that America is fundamentally a good force for the world.
And I think what he's trying to signal to people there is he's the good guy.
Tucker is the good guy in all this.
That's why he talks in this very fake way.
I find it very difficult to listen to him, actually.
It's like he talks in this very fake way.
He's out there for everybody.
He wants to help everybody.
He's just better than you.
And our troops and Donald Trump, they're all mean and they're warmongers and everything else.
This is the same man who back in May, when we hit the when our B-2 bombers went into Iran after that 12-day war and ended that thing, he said it was going to be thermonuclear World War III.
That's what he said.
But this sort of suicidal empathy, we usually apply it to people on the left.
It is also something that apparently some people on the right have, although I think with him it's a little more of a nefarious means.
Here's an old video.
I think we've shown you this once or twice before.
Jordan Peterson talking to Piers Morgan about what the biggest threat is actually in the West.
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What do you think the biggest threat to mankind is?
Okay, so the way I'm connecting those, it feels maybe a bit of a jump.
You know, I keep quoting Gad said, suicidal empathy.
I think most people understand what that is.
It's like, let everybody into our country.
It's worse off for them.
Oh, they appear to be brown and different.
Let them in because I'm empathetic.
And ultimately, what you do is you create a suicidal situation in your country, which will be overtaken by crime and terrorism, and your culture will be degraded, et cetera, et cetera.
What Jordan is talking about there is narcissistic compassion.
And these two things, I think they really work well together.
It's a toxic stew.
But narcissistic compassion.
I will be so compassionate because there's something about me.
There is something about me that is wrong that we will not create the conditions to build anything successful in the future.
And it's like, I don't think it's that way.
I think right now, as I have consistently said for nine days, and if I'm proven wrong, I'll be proven wrong.
It's just part of, if you talk for a living and you tell people what you think, what might happen.
I think that Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth and the rest of this administration deserve our trust right now.
They deserve our Trump as well, but they deserve our trust.
And so far, so good.
And we should be rooting for them and cheering them as opposed to what Tucker is doing every day, which is absolutely undermining them and defending the jihadists.
And every episode now, bringing on lefties to glaze them while every time he brings on someone on the right, he tries to destroy them.
But okay, let's shift hemispheres altogether.
Let's come on back this way because in Miami over the weekend, we had some of the best.
We got some good world leaders out there.
We got Malay over in Argentina.
We got Bukele in El Salvador.
We got that Donald J. Trump guy.
And they all met here in the fair city of Miami.
Listen to this from the White House.
President Donald J. Trump with leaders from across Latin America at the Shield of America's summit.
And yes, that was in Miami.
They call Miami North South America, right?
Because we're basically the southernmost part of the United States, right above South America.
So they call us North South America.
So Donald Trump met all of these Latin American leaders, chatted about a whole bunch of stuff, much of it focusing on Cuba.
Like, it's like, Marco, you're doing an awful lot.
We got this war going over there.
But Marco, you are Cuban.
We've told you the story.
And Marco has told the story on this show several times about his parents coming from Cuba and his dad working in a restaurant, you know, cleaning dishes and that.
Just incredible that his son becomes senator and then Secretary of State and everything else.
But Cuba's in a lot of trouble.
And I think what Trump is showing right now, and again, this gets to the, you got to trust this guy who's been right about most things and directionally right about virtually everything and hyper competent and dealing with the worst forces in the world on the other side.
What he's showing right now is America's exerting power.
And I also think he's realizing that because the midterms are now, you know, eight months away, something like that. that his window on this could be getting very short.
He is trying to change the world and directionally push it towards pro-America, pro-Western values as quickly as possible.
So that's why Venezuela went down as quickly as it did.
That's why he moved on Iran.
And now it looks like he's going to move on Cuba too.
And you could take that hyper-libertarian position.
None of that's America first.
But to me, America first is America showing that our interests in the world, it is not just our borders, but that we are going to need to work with countries that share our values.
You don't have to force them to believe in anything.
But Cuba has been a communist dictatorship for a long, long time.
I'm here in Miami where we're around a lot of Cubans all the time.
And trust me, these people know what freedom is.
Here are some protests happening in Cuba right now.
so, and we even have the chickens out here in Miami, too, because sometimes I just hear a rooster going, crowing early in the morning.
Again, you might take the position, we shouldn't care about what's going on in Venezuela.
We shouldn't care about what's going on in Cuba and around and everything else.
Or we've screwed up things in the Middle East in the past and we'll screw this up again.
First off, Venezuela, Cuba, these Latin American countries, they don't have the same of religious attachments, right?
There isn't hardcore Islamist jihadist ideology there.
Those people that are out on the streets, they've been living under communism forever.
They've been fighting for food and when electricity turns on and water and everything else.
I was talking to a bunch of my guys that I played ball with yesterday about this, who some of them came from Cuba themselves or their parents came, what it was like to live under that regime.
And if we can exert a little influence, look at Venezuela right now.
Is there suicide bombs all over the place?
Is there mass violence going on everywhere?
No.
Do they still have to fix their country?
And are we going to have to get a leader in who's going to be friendlier to America?
Okay, fine.
But notice, it didn't all just turn to poop overnight.
And likely, if we do something in Cuba, which Marco Rubio basically said we're going to do, and Trump pretty much said it right there, my guess is the people will rise up and be more pro-American, certainly than any Democrat.
Here's former member of the administration, now very popular podcaster Dan Bongino with a bit more on the Cuban regime.
As a matter of fact, I think that's pretty much what I just said, that Donald Trump is realizing.
I think this is, it's all boiled down to this.
One way or another, Donald Trump either has eight months left or he has two and a half years left.
And what I mean by that is he has eight months.
And then if they lose the midterms, he will be hampered and impeached.
And he will be lame duck.
And even the frothing mouth Tucker types will be trying to destroy him.
Tucker's already trying to destroy him, but meaning they will be trying to usher in whoever they think is next.
And they'll tell you that MAGA is dead and all the rest of it.
But if Donald Trump succeeds over the next eight months, and again, I'm still bullish on this.
I know everybody is saying it the other way.
Everybody on both sides is saying the Republicans are going to get demolished and all of this stuff.
I think people see what's happening here.
I really do.
And it's tough to read through the media nonsense and everything else.
But if the war goes well, if the economy keeps chugging along, and to the backdrop of America's 250th anniversary on July 4th of this year, if there's a resurgence, if we all realize it's Trump and what he's trying to do, what he's trying to do, I think is what you would want any real leader to do.
He is trying to not kick the can down the road.
He's trying to say, man, there have been these massive problems that we have all looked away.
We didn't really want to think about the China threat, right?
We didn't really want to think about the Iran threat.
We didn't really want to think about what's going on with these communist countries in our hemisphere.
He's doing as much as he can, and he either has eight more months to do it or pray to Lord, that he gets the two and a half years to finish it off and then hopefully hand something beautiful to whoever his successor is, whether it's JD or Rubio or anyone else.
Here's Jamath Palapatiya from The All-In Podcast talking a bit more about the sort of the drive behind Trump and what it is that he actually represents right now.
I think the best way to think about our current political climate in the United States is we are led by a transcendent political athlete.
Transcendent how he, Donald Trump, is the most effective and capable political athlete we have ever seen.
Why?
He understands how to connect at the one-on-one level.
He understands retail politics better than, frankly, anybody.
And you can just see this if you go to a rally, the way that he can connect with individual people.
He has an affability that's very disarming.
And yet, because of his business acumen, he has a way of negotiating that I think is just very hard for the learned non-business person to compete with.
You know, there's a very famous Mike Tyson quote: everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face.
I think the president has an incredible ability to negotiate.
Everybody comes in and says, I will be the transcendent athlete.
But Trump is the transcendent athlete.
He is the Michael Jordan.
And when you are that guy, you're going to get relentless hate.
You're going to get foaming at the mouth lunatics like we showed you earlier, James Carville, who just want to dedicate their lives to destroying you while you are fixing the freaking country.
And our country has major problems, including, unfortunately, I think we are going to see more of this.
So there was a, well, let me just here.
I'll set it up this way, in case you haven't heard the story, because this is wild out of New York City.
So first, I want to read you a tweet by New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdami and watch all the misdirections here, and then we'll tell you the story.
Yesterday, white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion, rooted in bigotry and racism.
Such hate has no place in New York City.
It is an affront to our city's values and the unity that defines who we are.
What followed was even more disturbing.
Violence at a protest is never acceptable.
The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.
I want to thank the brave men and women of the New York City Police Department who acted quickly to keep New Yorkers safe.
Our officers ran towards danger without hesitation, demonstrating once again the courage and dedication it takes to protect this city every single day.
My administration is closely monitoring the situation and I remain in close contact with our police commissioner.
Connor, leave that up for just a second because it's interesting.
You read this.
Okay, so this guy, Jake Lang, who Mom Dami tells you is a white supremacist.
Okay, I don't know enough about Jake Lang to comment on that.
I know he does not like radical Islam for sure, but it's an affront to our city's values that this white supremacist showed up.
What followed is even more disturbing.
And then he talks about this explosive device.
He doesn't tell you who brought the explosive device.
It kind of sounds like it was one of Jake Lang's buddies.
But that's not what happened.
Here's a little bit more from Mom Dami.
from this morning before we unpack what actually happened.
Listen to me, this man is evil, and now I'm going to explain it.
I mean, if you're watching the show, you know he is evil, and he's using confusion and conflation.
He's implying that someone came outside of Gracie Mansion because he is the Muslim mayor to kill him or throw a bomb and kill him and his supporters and his wife and somehow Islam and Islamophobia and the rest of it.
Do we have video of the guy throwing the...
Oh, we do.
That's the guy who is doing it.
And he doesn't appear to be a white supremacist to me.
Do we have an image of that guy real quick before we tell you a little bit more about him?
So there he is throwing, and we'll have a little bit more on exactly what he was throwing in just a moment.
But okay, so you can see what Zorhan did here in his tweet and in his statement, the implication is he's a Muslim and there were some bigots that showed up and somebody had a bomb.
But it turns out, well, yeah, it wasn't Jake Lang or the white supremacists.
That guy was a jihadi himself.
Listen to this from Bill Medillusion on Fox.
New per three federal law enforcement sources, the two suspects arrested by NYPD for throwing an IED after yelling Allahu Akbar at a protest in New York City are both believed to be U.S. citizens.
Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi are in custody and NYPD confirms it was a real IED.
Here's a bit more from Illusion.
More.
I'm told by federal law enforcement sources that a New York City IED suspect Amir Balat's parents are both from Turkey and were naturalized into U.S. citizens in 2017, where Ibrahim Kayumi's parents are both from Afghanistan.
Mom naturalized in 2009, dad in 2004.
So do you get what happened here?
Two Islamists, it sounds like second-generation Americans, one from Turkey and one from Afghanistan, yelled Allahu Akbar through an explosive device at the purported white supremacist.
I'm not defending, I'm not even commenting on any of the things that Jake Lang or that crew did.
They are exercising their free speech.
You like it, you don't like it.
This is the same New York City that they'll allow Hamas supporters to stand outside temples and scream at random Jews, right?
So, okay, New York City has fostered and created really an untenable situation that will obviously get much worse.
But the disgusting part of this, outside of the bomb that the jihadists threw, is that the mayor is pretending he's the victim of this thing.
Evil, extraordinarily evil.
Here's former NYPD Inspector Paul Morrow explaining what this TATP bomb actually is.
I have been telling you for a while that obviously you have these people who dress up like Hamas member jihadis wandering through New York City.
Eventually, of course they'll strap suicide vests on, right?
That's the one thing Palestinianism has ever exported.
Of course they're going to do that, or they will throw bombs into the crowd.
But the level, the level that this mom Dhammi will lie at is extraordinary.
He's out there pretending he's the victim.
It's guys who like him, right?
It's guys who like him that threw a bomb at the protesters.
Now, you may not like what those protesters were saying, the anti-Islam protesters.
You may not like it, but you can't bomb them and kill them, which is what they were trying to do here.
Now, of course, it's not just that Mom Dami lies about it, but mainstream media, of course, is going to lie about it.
Look at this tweet from TMZ.
Suspicious devices found outside Zorhan Mamdami's residence.
That's an interesting way to put it.
I mean, a jihadi yelled Allahu Akbar and threw a bomb, but it's a suspicious device found outside Zorhan Mamdami's residence, implying that they were trying to kill Zorhan Mamdami.
Well, thankfully, we now have community notes on X and it wrote misrepresentation.
Devices were thrown by counter protesters at anti-Mamdami protests.
Numerous media sources have reported that Allah Akbar was yelled by the counter-protesters with the device.
Law enforcement has confirmed that Mamdami is not believed to have been the target.
So Mamdami is pretending that a bunch of, well, he's not even saying jihadists or anything else.
He wants you to think that a bunch of white supremacists showed up to Gracie Mansion.
I used to live right there, by the way.
He used to show up right there and throw a bomb at him because he's Muslim.
But it was Muslim jihadists who did it.
And the mainstream media is running with that.
And it wasn't just TMZ that did it.
There were all sorts of headlines from CBS and the rest of them.
So what do we do about this?
Well, the problem in New York City is you guys are just screwed.
At a national level, what we might want to do is fund DHS.
We might want to make sure that in a time such as this, that we are doing whatever precautions we can to make sure that bad people, masked jihadis, are not taking homemade bombs and throwing them all over our cities.
We might want to do that.
But here is Timu Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, defending the fact that the Democrats have now defunded DHS because of ICE, even though, as we have pointed out a gajillion times, ICE is funded through 2029.
Completely and totally out of control group of people.
It's the reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now because Republicans have refused to agree to the type of bold, transformative, meaningful, and dramatic reforms we are demanding in order for the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to move forward.
And I won't go through all of the demands, much of which we've talked about repeatedly in the public, but one of those demands is keep ICE out of sensitive locations.
Well, Gav, I can talk like you too because, okay, I talk like this.
I'm Gavin Newsome with my pre-packaged lines.
Having an ID to vote is something that every civilized nation on earth except the United States of America has allowed.
It's not about IDs, it's about registration.
Okay, have an ID, register to vote, and then vote.
But Gavin Newsom, as insane and evil, and horrible and demented and twisted and corrupted as this man is, he is going to get worse because he feels, because he's nothing, because he is a vapid lizard man in a suit.
He has to go where warmth is.
This is what lizards have to do.
You know, they're a cold-blooded animal.
We'll do a little biology today.
Lizards are cold-blooded, unlike humans who are warm-blooded.
We can generate heat.
Lizards need warmth.
And that's why if you ever had a lizard or a snake as a pet, you would get a warm rock and they would sit on it to stay warm.
That's how they stay alive.
And what he sees now is the warm rock.
He's a lizard.
And what he sees as the warm rock is the loony progressives, right?
He doesn't think that just being an old school Democrat is going to work anymore.
So he wants to go to the warmth rock.
He wants to ensconce himself over it and suck it dry, basically.
So here he is saying that he would go on the podcast of lunatic leftist.
I mean, I used to know this guy total whatever, Hassan Piker.
You know, because like the Taliban guy was like, oh, you have nuclear arms, but we have like suicide bombers.
Like we'll just blow up your country with suicide bombers.
And it's like, you really don't need that anymore in drone warfare, right?
You don't need that at all.
Just make fucking drones.
Just you can purchase them from, you know, you can purge them in the online marketplace.
Like China literally sells like explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put to a DGI drone that you can purchase like at virtually no significant cost in comparison to like, you know, sophisticated equipment that you need to put together.
It's like, if any of that is true, if there are hundreds of thousands of people that don't, this is what they tell us, right?
They can't get to Akanko's, Kathy Hochul, black people don't even know what computers are, they've never been on the internet, all of those things.
What you would do is if you cared about election integrity, if that's what this was really about, you would put together a massive program to make sure that every black person, because it's always about black people for them, would be able to get an ID.
But they never do that.
They love taking your money for government programs, but wouldn't you just create a government program to give people IDs, which actually we already have?
And again, I keep seeing black people on planes.
I don't know if it's just the airlines that I'm flying on or whatever.
But now let's jump over to, well, we'll connect this to just sort of where the Democrat Party is at and how it got there.
Well, much of it got there because of Barack Obama, right?
Barack Obama came in with hope and change.
It was hope and change.
He got a Nobel Peace Prize right when he was elected, when he did absolutely nothing just because he was a well-spoken black guy with nice teeth and was saying all the right things and everybody was in some sort of fever dream.
Jesse Jackson died a couple days ago and they had his funeral.
Now, Jesse Jackson's son, before the funeral, requested that all the speakers not do politics, but they're Democrats and that's what they have instead of God.
So here's Obama.
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We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope.
Every day you wake up to things you just didn't think were possible.
And I'm Barack Obama.
So when I read off a teleprompter, I talk like this, Gavin Newsom.
Like they're all, what is wrong with all of these people?
They cannot speak.
They can't just speak off the cuff.
They can't say what they actually believe because everything's read and pre-packaged and rehearsed.
And it's actually gross.
But anyway, so of course he did politics there, all these people, and they're all cheering him.
Yes, I woke up to something horrible this morning.
And yes, oh my God, it's going to happen again tomorrow.
And no, it's not true.
It's you guys who want to pack the courts.
It's you guys who want to flood the country with illegals.
Blah, Let's jump back to Bill Maher one more time.
He had Don Lemon.
He had Don Lemon on the program, Don Lemon, who burst into a church and harassed little kids recently.
So you're going to get on the PR tour after something like that.
And I thought this was quite good.
Don or Bill asked Don about that incredible moment at the State of the Union that everybody saw where Trump asked members of Congress and the Senate to stand up if you were for American citizens more than illegals.
What did you think of the trap that Trump laid in the State of the Union address where he just show the tape there because I think it's self-explanatory what he did.
You don't have to love everything Donald Trump is doing every second of the day.
You can have your own principles and disagreements.
But broadly, what the Republicans have and what Donald Trump now represents is saving Western civilization and the United States, which is quite literally the Earth's last great hope.
Or we have the descent into absolute chaos, which is sort of like having a mayor in New York City when a bomb is thrown pretending that he's the victim, even though it was a jihadi who's on the same side of him doing it.