Wow. As someone who's written so many (probably too many articles) about my issues with Bill Maher, I don't think I ever put it that succinctly.

Here's another problem. He was anachronistic thirty years. He was misogynstic, famously hates children and families, thinks therapy is a racket, hates religion and thinks the worst thing in the world is if a white man can lose his celebrity. He recent said on his blog its time for Louis C.K to come out of the penalty box, thinks Woody Allen got a bad rap, thought Bill Clinton was a GREAT president because of his extramarital affairs and was fine with his sexual harrassment and while he thought Clarence Thomas was unqualified to sit on the supreme court, he never believed Anita Hill was enough of a reason for Thomas to be seated. He's always been more comfortable having conservative newscasters and Republicans on his show than Democrats, increasingly only has white men on his show rather than any women or people of color, and truly believes every single issue that involve the suppression of women, African-Americans, gays, lesbians or indeed anyone who isn't a white male is just a wedge issue that will stop people from voting Democrat. He has no empathy for anyone other than white men. He claims to be a libertarian but his brand of libertarianism is that you can do anythng you want - as long as it doesn't bother him. And everything bothers him.

I do think the Trump comparison is valid, though he'd never admit it. He is intellectually incurious about the world around him or even America, has no real friends and has famously been opposed to any relationships (in his last show he decided to 'renew his vows to himself'), using his platform to lecture his guests on how wrong they are and really just wants everyone to be as miserable as he is. Maher hasn't retired because he doesn't have anything else BUT his show and his act. He has no family, no really friends, not even his colleagues in late night like him that much. And because he's a die-hard aetheist, he doesn't even believe in an afterlife. All he has is his comedy and his show. It's sad really. He started his career an anachornism and he's a dinosaur now. He just doesn't know he's extinct.