Bill Maher Points Out That 'We Won' Usually Means You Actually Won

Late night host Bill Maher on Friday delivered a reality check to President Trump regarding the U.S. military operations against Iran - operations Maher himself initially supported.

“The problem is he keeps saying we won, and we didn’t. We didn’t,” the comedian said during his “Real Time” show. “Hormuz is not open,” he added, referring to the Strait of Hormuz, the critical oil-trading waterway that remains effectively closed. “The people did not do an uprising. The regime is still in place. We did not win. Sorry.”

Trump has been touting his administration’s strikes against Tehran, claiming they achieved “regime change.” The joint U.S.-Israel strikes in late February killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and severely wounded his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei. “They’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “It’s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change.”

After the strikes, Trump urged Iranians to rise up, but Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded with a brutal crackdown on civilian protests that began last year. “And in social media, he keeps rubbing their noses in the victory we don’t have,” Maher said. “Every day he tweets out stuff that’s inflammatory and contradictory, all these bull - claims. I gotta say, you can say what you want about his negotiating tactics. One tactic you can’t get him on is the silent treatment.”

This week, Trump announced an indefinite extension of a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran, with Pakistan mediating. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Islamabad for direct talks. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei disputed that, posting: “No meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S. Iran’s observations would be conveyed to Pakistan.” Iranian media reported Tehran’s delegation departed Islamabad after meeting only with Pakistani officials. The Hill has reached out to the White House for clarification.