Bill Maher calls out Al Gore for comparing Trump to Hitler

"I just think that Nazis is a hard word to use with nuance," Maher said to Gore during an interview. "So when you bring that word out, you know, I feel like they're the GOAT of evil." (GOAT stands for "greatest of all time.")

Gore made the comments during a keynote speech in San Francisco on Monday: "I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement," Gore said. "It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it. But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil," and then went onto compare the Trump administration to Hitler's Third Reich.

Gore hit back during the segment with Maher, "I agree with that. But look at what I actually said in that speech. There was a group of German philosophers that went back after the war and conducted a kind of moral autopsy… One of them said that the first step on the descent into Hell in that case was, and I quote, ‘The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power.’ They attack the distinction between true and false."

Gore continued to defend his comments, "And when I see and hear over and over again the assertion of complete inaccuracies that Ukraine is responsible for starting the war with Russia. There's so many of them, and they keep asserting these things expecting us to believe it. The climate crisis is a hoax invented by the Chinese, that windmills cause cancer… that coal is clean. And they try to assert, with the force of power, their own special version of alternative facts."

"But I guarantee that the side of the country that voted for Trump, they hear Nazi, and they just go, 'Oh, you're calling us Nazis?'" Maher replied. "First of all, it's a bit of a false premise as bad as they are. And also, it just says to them, ‘Well, you just hate us.’ And one thing I've learned in recent years is that the one thing that's more powerful than money is hate. When people hate you so much and when they think you hate them so much, even the money goes out the window."

"This idea that well- just take a random example, you can't even break bread with them. We hate you so much. You're a deplorable and you're not worth having dinner with," Maher added in his comments. The late-night show host recently had dinner with Trump, to the disdain of many of his audience members who lean to the left politically.

Maher has been a vocal critic of those that have compared Trump and the GOP to Nazis as of late. When Larry David wrote a piece at the New York Times to mock Maher's dinner with Trump, David called it "My Dinner with Adolf." According to Fox News, Maher responded to the satire piece on Piers Morgan's show, "I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you've lost the argument. And also, I must say, you know, come on, man. Hitler? Nazis? Nobody has been harder about and on and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don't need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn't change that, and the fact that I reported honestly is not a sin either."