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118+ best Amazon Prime Day deals, hand-picked and updated live for 2026 MediaBill Maher scolds his audience over Obama’s ‘alien’ Presidential Center: ‘F–king liars’
By Nicholas McEntyre Published June 21, 2026, 1:25 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleBill Maher called out his audience as “f–king liars” for claiming they cared about former President Barack Obama’s nearly $1 billion Presidential Center.
Maher criticized the design idea and purpose of the near-windowless, 225-foot-tall museum at the center of the complex that opened in Chicago on Friday during a discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif) and journalist Jonathan Martin.
“Do we have a picture of the Obama library? Because it looks like something aliens built in Dubai,” Maher said on “Real Time.” “It cost $850 million. I don’t understand why progressives like this. Couldn’t that money be better spent on something else?
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“Who’s gonna go to this? Why does anybody need a presidential library? These monuments to some of these ego, out of office,” he began to say.
The 70-year-old comedian then polled his audience on whether any member was planning to visit the center in Jackson Park in Chicago’s South Side.
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The question got a resounding round of applause, but Maher wasn’t buying the response.
“Really? You’re all a bunch of f–king liars,” Maher said. “You’re not going to the Obama library.”
Khanna, who was a panelist on Friday’s show, questioned Maher’s problem with a building honoring the first and only Black president of the United States as he compared the money spent to Elon Musk’s billion-dollar venture to Mars.
“First of all, we don’t need that building to do that,” Maher said. “That’s in our hearts and minds. That already happened.”
Bill Maher mocked the Obama Presidential Center as a billion-dollar monument to ego. Ro Khanna had the better answer.
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Khana, a fifth-term congressman representing the South and East Bay regions of the San Francisco Bay Area, proclaimed that Michelle Obama gave “one of the greatest speeches” at the Obama Center dedication.
The 49-year-old politician said the former first lady spoke about how her husband fought against racism and insults while showing “hope and patience and aspirations can overcome it.”
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“What does that have to do with a building?” Maher retorted. “We didn’t know that story without the building? Like unless you go to the building you’re like ‘Obama, who was he again?'”
The “Death Star” shaped center will feature a museum, a community hub, a new branch of the Chicago Public Library, and an athletics and recreation space along with other outdoor spaces.
Khanna argued that the building represents more than just the eight years of Obama’s presidency and has impacted millions of lives in the country.
“I do think Obama’s story is unique, I’m biased, I worked for him but it’s a unique story of telling the possibilities in this country,” Khanna said. “When I was in law school, an intern, they said to me ‘Ro, you’re Indian-American, you’re of Hindu faith, go to the Capitol because you’re never getting elected to anything.
“That’s what I heard, and then Barack Obama happened and he changed the direction of this nation for millions of people,” he said.
“Again nothing to do with a building,” Maher said.
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
