Bill Maher is used to sitting behind a microphone and making other people uncomfortable. Hunter Biden apparently showed up ready to return the favor.
The former president’s son has developed a habit of saying the part other people might workshop with a publicist first.
Lately, threats, critics and uncomfortable questions have been met with roughly the same energy: Try somebody else.
That approach came in handy during his appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” when the topic changed to Donald Trump’s 35-year-old executive assistant, Natalie Harp.
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Maher suggested Harp had become the latest political figure people simply wanted to hate. “I was saying about Natalie… you know, everyone just, ‘Oh good, someone to hate now. Someone I can hate now,’” he said.
Biden was not buying that explanation.
“I don’t know, Bill,” he began.
Biden then asked Maher to imagine a 35-year-old staffer writing similarly intimate notes to Barack Obama and having the same unusually devoted relationship with him.
“What would be the reaction then?” Biden asked. “Do you think that there wouldn’t be a howl from the right?”
Maher agreed people love having someone to hate. Biden immediately asked, “Does that make it right?”
That was when the normally quick-tongued Maher suddenly appeared to run out of runway. After stumbling through his response, he finally said, “Let’s not talk about it.”
Threads certainly wanted to talk about it.
“Watching Hunter Biden make Bill Maher tongue tied about the hypocrisy of the Right if the Natalie Harp story was about Obama is delicious,” one person wrote. Another declared,, “Hunter ever so sweetly ATE HIM UP.” A third added, “Hunter is the hero we need, because he gives zero f—ks and puts these right wing nut jobs in their place.”
Another wrote, “Hunter is as awesome as his dad in some ways and Maher is as pathetic as always. I wish these fuckers like Maher had to get a real job.”
“I’m always delighted to see Bill dragged,” someone else said,
“Bill has met his match with Hunter. He is being demolished,” another stated.
One critic shared,, “Maher is so sleazy. He’s so self righteous and loves yelling his opinion at people until the minute someone pushes back – then it’s time to move on and talk about something else.” Another concluded, “Maher is MAGA now.”
The Harp situation is especially difficult to wave away as ordinary workplace loyalty. She has traveled nearly everywhere with Trump.
Then there are her notes.
Her letters to him have included lines such as “You are all that matters to me” and “I want to bring you joy.” One was signed, “With all my heart, Natalie.”
Photos also surfaced of Harp running uphill behind Trump’s golf-cart caravan at Turnberry in Scotland in 2023. She later apologized for being an “embarrassment” by walking the course, although she said staff had instructed her to do exactly that.
Maher likely has more tolerance than most. He seems fine with unconventional relationships involving much younger women. No solid proof exists of a romance between the president and his aide. Still, the talk show host, based on his past situationships, wouldn’t mind if something were going on.
The comedian has openly joked that “age-appropriate” relationships are boring. He even proposed a “Golden Bachelor”-style show featuring himself dating an “age-inappropriate woman.”
Biden, meanwhile, has made clear that pushback does not necessarily send him searching for the nearest exit.
When Melania Trump threatened him with a $1 billion lawsuit over his comments about Jeffrey Epstein, his response was memorable and extremely brief: “F—k that. It’s not gonna happen.”
That same refusal to retreat showed up with Maher. Biden did not need to defend Harp, attack Trump or turn the conversation into a shouting match. He simply swapped Trump for Obama and asked Maher whether everyone would still be this relaxed about the situation.
Maher never really answered.
Instead, a man who has built a career around uncomfortable conversations suddenly decided this particular conversation had become uncomfortable enough.
For Hunter Biden, apparently, that was the answer.
