By Katherine Tinsley
6:19pm PST, Mar 4, 2025
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"The answer is winning elections," Maher told President
Barack Obama's former speechwriter
Jon Lovett, as the two discussed the current status of the Democratic party.
"Power begets power. When you have power, it allows you to get more power, and now, they have all the power," Maher said of the Republican majority House, Senate and Supreme Court on
Real Time With Bill Maher. "That's not good!"
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Critics have been concerned about Trump becoming a dictator after being re-elected.
"I'm not sure if we will ever see another election," the Cornell alum stated.
"A lot of my editorialists were like, 'You know what he's doing behind the scenes now is he's replacing those people who replaced him last time with loyalists,'" he continued.
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Trump is committed to "Making America Great Again," but Maher hinted at the president's vision for the country being harmful.
"It's a little like the old 'we have to destroy the village to save it,'" he pointed out. "To save democracy we have to not have democracy."
"So, right now they're chanting Trump 2028," he states, as some of Trump's fans hope he will run again despite the laws. "Put that page one of things we used to never see in America before. A guy who is already in his second term, and they're chanting for the third term?"
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The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution was ratified in 1951 to limit a president to two terms, but Trump has aligned himself with allies in both the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court to override the political status quo.
"No one even thought to do that, and now it's a joke now haha. Get it? We're ending democracy," Maher explained.
"Yeah, except today's joke becomes a little more realistic," he noted.
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Lovett pointed out that Trump's current administration is unlikely to challenge him, which differs from his previous vice president, Mike Pence.
"When you have an Attorney General, who's a loyalist, you have a Vice President, who is a loyalist," Lovett shared.
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During a campaign rally in 2024, Trump told attendees that voting in 2024 could become their final opportunity to do so.
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time," Trump said at a Turning Point Action gathering in Florida. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."
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Trump later gushed over the evangelical community, which greatly supported the president.
"I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote," he said.
