VIDEO: Bill Maher Praises Trump For Record-Setting Drop In Crime

During Friday’s installment of Real Time, HBO host Bill Maher praised President Donald Trump for a record-setting drop in crime throughout his second term.

He attributed the decline to several factors, including surveillance technology, Democrat social policy choices, and President Trump’s public posture on law enforcement.

Maher noted that crime reductions were not limited to narcotics. “It’s not just drug crime that’s way down, it’s all crime,” he told viewers. “And again, probably much of it is not political. It’s because you can’t move two inches in America without being tracked, photographed, and followed by a Flock camera.”

He then added a second explanation. “But it’s also because, when Democrats expand the safety net, there are fewer desperate people. And because Trump is a badass.” Maher said he disagreed with some of the administration’s tactics, including deportations of people “to countries where they have absolutely no connection, like Meghan and Harry.”

Maher continued, “Is doing it this way the right thing? No. But it’s just childish to pretend that when you elect a f*ck around and find out President, a no more Mr. Nice Guy, boot in your ass, V for Vendetta, kick ass and take names, say hello to my little friend President, that’s not going to have some effect on crime. He has UFC fights on the lawn. I think the bad guys got the message.”

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The segment follows the release of official data showing large drops in reported crime. According to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer figures cited after the broadcast, reported violent crime nationwide fell 9 percent from June 2025 through May 2026. Robbery declined 19.4 percent, murder 18.7 percent, rape 10 percent, and aggravated assault 6.2 percent.

Full-year FBI estimates for 2025, which were released earlier this year, showed a 9.3 percent drop in the violent crime rate from 2024 — the largest year-to-year decline since national estimates began in 1936. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter also fell an estimated 18.1 percent.

In addition, robbery dropped 18.5 percent, rape 7.6 percent, and aggravated assault 7.2 percent. The estimated murder rate was 4.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, matching 1955 and 1956 as the lowest figure in the FBI series. Property crime fell an estimated 12.4 percent, including a 22.7 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft.

Preliminary first half 2026 comparisons released by federal officials pointed to further declines versus the same period in 2025, including a reported 10.6 percent drop in violent crime and a 23 percent drop in murder. Independent city-level tracking by the Council on Criminal Justice also found homicides down about 18 percent in the first half of 2026 in the large cities it monitors.

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