Liberal comedian Bill Maher has beef with his own audience, calling them “a bunch of f**king liars” over the Obama library.
The new Barack Obama Presidential Centre’s eye-popping pricetag and high-priced tickets are enough to make anyone wonder if this is a historical library or a grift. Maher posed the question on his show, wondering if the $850 million spent on the Chicago project might have been used to fund something better.
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Bill Maher calls his own audience a “bunch of f*cking liars” after one question about the Obama library.
It started when Maher rolled his eyes at Obama’s library costing $850,000,000 to build just to serve his “ego.”
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“It looks like something aliens built in Dubai,” Maher said of the center’s architecture. “It cost $850 million, I don’t understand why progressives like this. Couldn’t that money be better spent on something else? Who’s going to go to this? Why does anyone need a presidential library, these monuments to somebody’s ego out of office? Anybody here in this audience planning to go to the Obama Presidential Library?”
A large amount of applause erupted from the audience, but Maher wasn’t buying it.
“Really?! You’re a bunch of f**king liars, you are. You’re not going to the Obama library.”
A good point, considering the tickets alone cost a pretty penny, to say nothing of travel costs in the current economy:
An adult ticket to the Obama library is 30 dollars.
A ticket for a 3 year old child costs 23 dollars.
They really care about you. pic.twitter.com/gHD8BhVZqQ— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) June 19, 2026
X users had a lot to say about the clip:
And nobody mentions how it was built on stolen land, that less than a decade ago was a public park and athletic fields for the children and people of the south side of Chicago.
— Ed U MacAtted (@edumacatted) June 20, 2026
He’s right. Functionally, it’s not a library, it’s a shrine. And that’s fine, but just call it what it is – people spent $850M to build a shrine to Obama (well, $725M because the government kicked in about $125M).
— Totally All In (@TotallyAllIn) June 20, 2026
$850 million for a glorified ego trip while working-class people struggle.
Great legacy.
— Sushant Kumar (@sushantkumar67) June 20, 2026
I like Bill Maher more every day
20 years ago, who would’ve thought this guy would basically be a foul mouthed conservative
— mark david (@M___D____M_____) June 20, 2026
Exactly. They complain about Elon earning over a trillion and what someone can do with it. How about 850 million in donations not earned.
— Dan M (@duner733) June 20, 2026
