Bill Maher, Donna Brazile blast Michelle Obama’s claim that US isn’t ready for female president: ‘It’s bulls–t’
Bill Maher and ex-DNC chair Donna Brazile Friday tore into former first lady Michelle Obama’s “bulls–t” claim that America is not ready for a female president.
The “Real Time” host took aim at Obama’s political cries after the 61-year-old, who backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in her failed 2024 White House bid against President Trump, let loose her feelings during a book tour event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week.
“She was in the news this week, Michelle Obama. She has a book out. A coffee table book,” Maher said during his “Real Time” season finale on Friday. “Her statement, I was rather shocked by it.
“To me, this is logical fallacy 101. Just because we weren’t ready or didn’t like the candidates, Hillary and Kamala, doesn’t mean we are not ready for a woman.”
Obama stressed she has no desire to run for president in the 2028 election amid persistent speculation because Americans allegedly proved they weren’t ready for a woman in the Oval Office.
“As we saw in the past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama told actor Tracee Ellis Ross, who moderated the event in New York on Nov. 5.
“That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time,” she said. “We got a lot of growing up to do and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it.”
Maher invoked the ex-first lady’s husband, former President Barack Obama, in a rebuttal to the controversial statement.
“I think it’s a bad attitude. We said we weren’t ready for a black president and someone, I can’t remember who maybe she remembers, said maybe it just has to be the right one,” the comedian quipped.
Brazile, the contentious former chair of the Democratic National Committee, declared “we are ready” as she pointed out the popular vote results both Clinton and Harris received in their losses to Trump in 2016 and 2024, respectively.
“Maybe we should stop talking about it and just do it,” Brazile said.
Clinton garnered 65.8 million votes to Trump’s 62.9 million, but lost the electoral college vote 304 to 227.
Eight years later, Harris – the incumbent vice president – got 75 million votes and 226 electoral votes in her landslide loss to Trump.
“We are ready. Eighty percent of American people say, ‘they are ready,” Brazile said.
“So the idea that America isn’t ready is bullsh–t,” she added. “They might not be ready for this one or that one.”
During his “Club Random” podcast on Monday, Maher floated the idea that progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) would be a “fantastic candidate” for the White House – if she “had some deprogramming.”
“If she had some deprogramming, she could be such a fantastic candidate,” Maher said about AOC.
“She’s never going to resonate with people outside of the bubble she lives in, in the very, very far left,” he added.
