Bill Maher has ridiculed claims that God saved Donald Trump’s life during an assassination attempt at a political rally.
The comedian blasted those using the events of last week as evidence that the presidential hopeful is being endorsed by a higher power.
He accused Republicans of engaging in a ‘orgy of magical thinking’ by suggesting that Trump’s survival was divine intervention.
Instead he stated that the narrow escape was down to nothing but luck, as he cautioned against sanctifying Trump into a religious figure.
‘Donald Trump, even if you like him, is powerful enough as a past president, a likely future president and to be perfectly frank a cult leader – America doesn’t need a demigod,’ Maher said during his HBO show.
Bill Maher has ridiculed claims that God saved Donald Trump’s life during an assassination attempt at a political rally
‘From the pharaohs, to Julius Caesar to Hirohito, many cultures have tried it the earthly being who is simultaneously divine or at least god-ish and it never turns out well.
‘It’s the 21st century, enough is enough with the interpreting every random sign as a DM from heaven.’
His comments came after various conservatives began sharing images of Trump as an angel or being saved by the hand of God.
This included Republican Congressman Mike Collins who said: ‘God spared Ronald Regan for a reason. God spared Donald Trump for a reason. God doesn’t miss.’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said that Trump, ‘wears the armor of God’.
While pro-MAGA boxing star Jake Paul tweeted: ‘When you try and kill God’s angels and saviors it just makes them bigger.’
Trump survived an assassination attempt while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13
Conservatives were quick to suggest Trump survived due to divine intervention
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But Maher called out the hypocritical thinking of claiming that God saved Trump but allowed others such as Martin Luther King, JFK and John Lennon to die.
‘Look the a**hole who shot at Trump was cowardly, unpatriotic, selfish, vile and weak and he should rot in hell – but thinking that God protects your heroes and not mine that isn’t cool either,’ Maher added.
‘Trump didn’t survive the attempt on his life because of divine intervention, he survived because a virgin couldn’t hit the fattest president since Taft,’ Maher said of shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks.
‘Make no mistake I’m glad he didn’t. But Trump is alive because he is the single luckiest motherf***ker that ever lived.’
Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when Crooks, 20, opened fire on Saturday.
The bullet clipped him on the ear, but hit attendee Corey Comperatore who died a while shielding his young daughter and wife from the gunfire.
Maher pointed out the hypocrisy of claiming that God saved Trump from the shooting but has allowed others to die. Corey Comperatore was killed by the bullet meant for Trump
Members of the crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania rushed to his aid following the shooting
Crooks was then taken out and killed by a sniper shortly after he began shooting. Two other people were critically injured during the incident.
Trump put out a statement on the shooting on his Truth Social page where he offered condolences to those affected.
‘It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,’ said the former president.
‘I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!’