A Dumb Bill Maher Joke Is Exposing MAGA’s Nastiest Civil War

Bill Maher’s jokes may not have the juice to make people laugh, but one of them started a chain reaction of events that’s now exposing a major rift amongst two prominent Trump loyalists. 

Last September, during an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host quipped that far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer was in an “arranged relationship” with Donald Trump, helping to spread a widespread rumor that the two were having the world’s grossest affair. 

“We did an editorial here a few years ago,” Maher added. “it was basically, who’s Trump fucking? Because I said, you know, it’s not nobody. He’s been a dog for too long, and it’s not Melania. I think we may have our answer this week. I think it might be Laura Loomer.”

Loomer then sued Maher and HBO for $150 million, claiming that the comment was “false, malicious and defamatory.” Of course, whether it’s even possible to defame someone who’s famous for Islamaphobic tirades and attacking school shooting victims is up to the courts to decide.

Around the same time, fellow MAGA devotee Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene began publicly feuding with Loomer, criticizing her for making a racist joke about Kamala Harris — just think of how much of a piece of shit someone has to be to get called out for cultural insensitivity by the “Jewish Space Lasers” lady.

Now the depth of the loathing between the two Trump acolytes has been made even clearer, thanks to the defamation suit against Maher. 

Reportedly, leaked court documents containing a transcript of Loomer’s deposition included claims that the comedian cost her a job at the White House. “Bill Maher has robbed me of opportunity by falsely smearing me as a philander, an adulterer and a groupie,” Loomer stated. “I have been smeared as a whore and as a groupie and as a bimbo, and I am not working in the White House right now because of Bill Maher’s false accusations against me, in which he stated that I had an affair with President Trump.”

Maher’s attorney then questioned Loomer about her own history of making cringey joke accusations about people, specifically Greene. Loomer was asked to read aloud a post in which she asked Greene to “Remember when you destroyed your family so you could have sex with a Zangief cosplayer?” If the random Street Fighter II reference wasn’t odd enough, she then brought up the “Arby’s in your pants.” 

If someone ends up making a Hamilton-esque musical about this moment in American political history, good luck finding a rhyme for “Arby’s in your pants.”

While the Arby’s line was seemingly meant as a cruel description of the congresswoman’s genitals (see the case of Che v. Jost), Loomer tried to tell Maher’s lawyer that she simply meant that Greene “carries roast beef in her pockets.”

“What is your basis for saying she puts roast beef in her pockets and in her pants?” the attorney followed up. 

“Because I know she likes to eat at Arby’s,” Loomer responded. 

Maher’s counsel asked if Loomer was actually “making a derogatory comment about her sex life by talking about Arby’s in her pants?” 

“No. I’m talking about Arby’s, the sandwiches. I’m talking about Arby’s. I would… I’m a very direct person,” Loomer argued. “If I was making a derogatory comment, I would have said it.”

Regardless of who wins the defamation case, we can all agree that the ultimate loser will be Arby’s publicity department.