President Trump has blasted comedian Bill Maher for being “defenseless and totally deficient” during his interview with California Gov. Gavin Newsom .

Trump — who previously sued Maher for failing to pay him $5 million for proving he was not the offspring of an orangutan — wrote online Saturday that the talk-show comedian was “weak and ineffective” at holding the lefty Dem’s feet to the fire.

“Last night, I happened to watch Gavin Newscum, an admittedly Low IQ person, who said he can’t read a speech, is dumb, and essentially, incompetent, and he took Bill Maher ‘over the coals,'” Trump said on Truth Social .

Donald Trump chats with Bill Maher in happier times — outside the Emmys in Los Angeles in 2004.…