Stephen A. Smith Tells Bill Maher Trump Won Because He Seemed ‘Closer to Normal’ Than the Left
“when you talk about the transgender community, for example, and you talk about the issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population – the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues”

Stephen A. Smith of ESPN appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher this weekend, and the two discussed a variety of topics, including the 2024 election. Maher has been vocal about his rejection of the ‘woke’ left and Smith echoed that, suggesting that one of the reasons Trump won is because the left is now so far out of the mainstream that Trump came off as more normal to voters.
There is definitely some truth in that.
FOX News has details:
Stephen A. Smith calls out liberals with blunt reason for Trump win: He’s ‘closer to normal’ than the left
During the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” ESPN star pundit Stephen A. Smith blasted the Democratic Party for coming off as a weirder and less viable choice in the last presidential election than President Trump and all his baggage.
Talking to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and the show’s host, Smith scolded liberals for choosing not to campaign on issues that the American people were most concerned about. He admitted that Trump – despite his flaws, legal convictions and impeachments – did, and that’s why he’s currently in the White House.
“Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,’” the sports pundit declared, to which Maher replied, “Exactly.”…
“He’s closer to normal,” he continued. “Why? Because something that pertains – when you talk about the transgender community, for example, and you talk about the issues that pertain to less than one percent of the population – the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues.”
Maher’s audience tends to applaud when they hear something they like. You can hear a pin drop during this segment.
Watch the clip:
Stephen A Smith stuns the Bill Maher crowd into silence as he articulates how Democrats have no one left fighting for the American people:
SAS: "The man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts. The American people still said 'He's closer to normal than what… pic.twitter.com/BTHt6ZKIqa— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
In another segment, Bill Maher lamented that Trump is now seen as ‘cool’. Maher may reject the far left, but he still has Trump Derangement Syndrome.
From the New York Post:
Bill Maher shocked to admit ‘Trump is cool now,’ says sports players love the president
“Real Time” host Bill Maher appeared to be stunned by his admission that President Donald Trump is now considered “cool.”
“Here’s how bad the Democrats f—ed up: Trump is cool now,” Maher said during a panel discussion Friday night.
“He’s not just the most powerful guy in the world and just made himself like the richest, he’s actually kind of [cool] at 78!”
“I mean, rappers like him, the athletes are doing-” Maher continued while gesturing Trump’s iconic rally dance…
“I mean, the Village People are gay for Trump now!” he added.
Here’s that clip:
Bill Maher outlines how Democrats 'F-ed up' because they made Trump cool:
Maher: "Here's how bad the Democrats fucked up: Trump is cool now. He's not just the most powerful guy in the world, he's kind of cool, at 78.
Rappers like him.
I was making fun of him jerking off two guys… pic.twitter.com/YS3NAZpTMo— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 25, 2025
There has definitely been a shift. Hearing these exchanges between Smith and Maher further cements that fact.
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Duh!
There are not enough psychiatrists in the whole world to treat the people on the left. Making them stand in line to see a shrink would be like Ripley’s quote on the Chinese:
“If all the Chinese in the world were to march four abreast past a given point they would never finish passing, though they marched forever.”
The Trump Administration transferred 1,500 transgender females out of federal prisons. There are only 10,000 female inmates in federal prisons. It is very hard to believe that the transgender females weren’t terrorizing and raping the female inmates. So why didn’t we hear about this? How can so many reporters and feminists ignore this?
Many were raping and impregnating the women
Trump’s family is more normal than Biden’s family. It’s not normal for a president to pardon his entire family 15 minutes before he leaves office.
What kind of family was the Biden family?
a. Justice for all family
b. Crime family
c. Only Milhouse knows for sure
>>What kind of family was the Biden family?<<
Biden’s family is a classic dysfunctional family. You have Joe marrying the baby sitter after the first wife died. Joe’s. numerous inappropriate interactions with children. Joe’s increasing by unacknowledged dementia, The cocaine addicted son. The unacknowledged grandchild. The shady, backroom dealings with Ukrainians and Russians. The dead son, Beau. And on and on. To put it succinctly, that ain’t one normal family that’s for sure.
One big dysfunctional family headed by the Big Guy.
d. dysfunctional family
Your precis is a classic,
As written, it could actually be sold to Hollywood.
In fact, I hope someone does.
It reminds me of Soap, or Arrested Development.
I can see it now — the lead character, Dexter “Red” Brandon.
DW interjects: “you forgot the part where the drug addicted son takes up with his dead brother’s wife. That’s not normal.”
And, while he did note “Joe’s numerous inappropriate interactions with children”, he did not specifically mention Joe’s showers with daughter Ashley.
“Stephen A. Smith calls out liberals…”
I wish to hell people would quit calling these shrieking garbage people “liberals.”
They are liberal in no actual sense of the word.
Leftist is more appropriate.
Trump was never a joke, he was made a joke only to the left when he declared as a Republican running for President.
Before that, they loved him
True.
It’s not so much that the LGBTXYZ123+PEDO stuff pertained only to 1% of the population, as that the Dems wanted to raise that percentage by indoctrinating and grooming children.
One big irony not discussed was that one of those issues that “the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues” that were actually damaging people’s lives, is all the determined effort they spent hanging those pissant “34 felony counts” on Trump.
Ladies and gentlemen, a stopped clock named S. A. Smith, but he still has zero self-awareness. Why? The Dems literally ran on a platform of ‘kill all the babies, trans all the kids, and fund all the warpigs.’
Yet, Smith still voted for Harris, so make of it what you will…
Those things for sure but all sorts of other Cray Cray policies as well. See CA fires. See over bearing regs on appliances. Lots of weird wokiesta policies to discuss in how the left self destructed.
The Left still can’t admit any of its policies and campaign tactics were wrong, just that they weren’t persuasive enough, that the MESSAGING was off.
In spite of total ownership of legacy media, Hollywood, academia, and a significant chunk of the justice system, despite 9 years of unremitting propaganda against Trump and the Right, they still think only a little bit of tweaking would have changed the outcome of this election.
The Overton Window has shifted. (A long way to the right.)
It seems apparent that Smith doesn’t recognize that the “34 Felony convictions” was pure Bravo Sierra (although with the NYS court system, it’s believable that the appeal will fail). He’s still a Leftist, just suffering from shell shock at the moment.
Dems doubling down on stupid. Feminists and manginas not winning message.
GOP: “Common sense”
Democrats: “We’ll transition your children, bigot!”
/ponder
So according to this guy both Trump and the Left are abnormal but Trump is “closer” to normal and therefore won by default.
What a crock. Trump is viewed as one of us and looks out for our best interests and the Left is viewed as tyrants looking to control every aspect of our lives while ripping us off of our wealth for them to put in their own pockets,
Trump: I’m going to close the borders and deport illegal aliens. I’m going to open up gas and oil drilling. I’m pulling out of the Paris green crap. I’m ending DEI in the government. I’m going to throw the permanent government hacks out, stop the weaponization of government agencies and start closing down people standing in your way.
Democrats: We are going to force you to accept grown men waving their swinging richard around in your daughters locker room and make sure your grade school kids can’t opt out of drag queen story hour then sue schools for removing gay porn from the libraries.
Gee, I wonder why the left lost to Hitler.
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