Bill Maher Revives Prediction Of ‘Slow-Moving Coup’ Amid Trump’s DC Takeover

The "Real Time" host went through an ominous checklist Friday chronicling the president's recent steps.

Bill Maher says President Donald Trump might be planning another “slow-moving coup.”

The “Real Time” host on Friday pointed to the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., where Trump deployed the National Guard and federalized local police to combat the purported “bedlam” there, despite violent crime in the city being at a 30-year low.

Maher predicted an attempted power grab during the first Trump administration and has frequently cited the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection as evidence ever since. He noted Friday that he’s used the phrase “slow-moving coup” since Trump was first elected in 2016.

“And people were laughing at it, whenever I said he was never going to concede power,” the comedian and political pundit said Friday. “They would say, ‘Oh, you smoke too much pot.’ Well, turned out I was smoking just the right amount of pot.”

Maher went on to argue that these people are actually the ones in a trance.