Bill Maher has claimed Donald Trump is “way less” of a threat than he used to be, in a podcast recorded hours before the president went on a lengthy rant to call the talk show host a “total loser.”

Maher, 70, dined with Trump, Kid Rock and ESPN host Stephen A. Smith at the White House on October 15. The late night HBO host then had Trump’s former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on the October 23 episode of his show, Real Time with Bill Maher , during which Maher poked at Trump on various topics.

Trump, 80, then posted a 1,300-word social media screed Sunday night accusing Maher, 70, of various lies and instructing the comedian: “Bill: Don’t call anymore.”

Now, on Monday’s episode of the HBO host’s Club Random podcast with filmmaker Justine Bateman — recorded prior to Trump’s lengthy social media post — Maher downplayed Trump’s significance.

Maher said that he is regularly approached by Hollywood liberals at “restaurants...…