Bill Maher shocks audience with Donald Trump’s prison rape joke

Bill Maher did the unthinkable and joked about raping former President Donald Trump in prison after he was found guilty of 34 counts of serious crimes in his hush money trial.

Before diving into a key segment on prison reform on his show Friday night, Maher asked why rape jokes are inappropriate except, in his opinion, when they involve prison.

“Someone needs to address the puzzling paradox of why rape jokes are completely unacceptable, unthinkable and absolutely taboo. But prison rape jokes? Incredibly funny!” he said to roars of laughter from the audience. “It’s never a bad time to make the joke about not bending over if you drop soap in the prison shower!”

He then addressed the upcoming sentencing of Trump. However, it is unlikely that the former president will have to go to prison, as he is a first-time offender without a violent crime.

“Look, with all this talk about Trump possibly going to jail, we were all kidding. I mean, let’s face it, it’s Donald Trump,” Maher said. “When you have the opportunity, it’s only natural to imagine him getting fucked in the ass.”

Maher received overwhelming applause from the audience for this punch line. But then the comedian got serious for a moment and talked about why even jokes about prison rape are not okay.

“I’m just saying, maybe we shouldn’t do this. Not for him, but for the nearly two billion people who are behind bars in this country at any given time,” he said. “That’s more people than 12 states.”

Maher brought the issue into a much-needed discussion about America’s high incarceration rate, which is higher than Russia and China.

However, Maher immediately continued with his jokes.

“But for some reason, Americans not only accept that we lock up more people, but that sodomy is the appropriate punishment for criminals of any kind,” said the talk show host and political commentator.

After making jokes about Sean Diddy Combs and Britney Spears, Maher returned to his original task and lambasted the prison system for not living up to its name as a “penitentiary.”

“If we try to make prisoners criminals for life, it works,” he said. “Corporations, it turns out, don’t run prisons to improve society. They run them to make money, which means more people get into the system. The more prisoners, the more profit.”