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In his longest social media post ever, the president hit on a kernel of truth about the "Real Time" host

Published October 28, 2026 9:00AM (EDT)

Bill Maher attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Mark Guiducci on March 15, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. ( Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Donald Trump is bad at a lot of things — negotiations, concealing criminal behavior, standing normal — but he’s not bad at everything. As much as it might bug some of us to admit it, there are a few areas where the president excels. He has an incredible gift for crafting earworms, and his Queens cadence and variable-volume delivery has wriggled its way into American speech patterns. He’s skilled at crafting funny putdowns, pithy nicknames and jabs that hit what his rival politicians are sensitive about and exploit the pressure points of expensive, futile campaigns.

But Trump’s greatest skill is his ability to sniff out a loser.…