This has been a difficult week, with the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. It’s prompted a lot of discussion about dangerous rhetoric and security. 

Earlier in the week, President Donald Trump went out to eat in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate that the city is safer after his crime crackdown. He went to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak, and Stone Crab, near the White House. He’s certainly made the streets safer for people in D.C., and he was cheered when he arrived. 

🚨 BREAKING: CHEERS ERUPT for President Trump outside a Washington DC restaurant. Liberals are furious tonight.

47 just went out on the town and proved his crime crackdown WORKED. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/434qkqu8KN

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 9, 2025

While Trump was at the restaurant, there was another concerning moment that raised questions about the Secret Service. As Trump was being ushered to his seat along with Vice President JD Vance and members of the Cabinet, they were loudly yelled at by members of Code Pink, who called Trump the “Hitler of our time.” Trump laughed in their faces, and the protesters were ushered out.

‘TIME TO GO!’: President Trump remains unfazed by ‘Free Palestine’ protesters who crashed his private dinner in DC. Secret Service eventually ejected the protesters. pic.twitter.com/BT5eIzCUBO

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 10, 2025

But that raised a big question: how had they been able to get so close to Trump, and who tipped them off? The Secret Service should have secured the restaurant. At this point, every member of the Secret Service and the Capitol Police should know the faces of Code Pink people – they’ve been involved in so many protests. The Secret Service needs to determine who tipped off the protesters. 

Meanwhile, that prompted concern and a defense of Trump from Bill Maher on his “Real Time” HBO show on Friday. He laid out what we’ve been saying all week – that the left should stop demonizing and calling Trump “Hitler.” “First of all, a**holes, [Trump] is not Hitler,” Maher declared. 

Bill Maher delivers a brutal message to Democrats still calling Trump “Hitler.”

Kirk is dead, and Maher has had enough of this sh*t.

“Okay, first of all, assholes, he’s not Hitler. Okay? An insult to everybody in the Holocaust, to begin with. Second of all, calling somebody… pic.twitter.com/WAN0HiJf0q

— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 13, 2025

Calling him Hitler downplays Hitler and the Holocaust, and it makes it easier to justify things like assassination attempts. “Let’s put a s***load of that away,” Maher said. That’s what all Democrats should do. They didn’t do it after the attempts on Trump’s life; they should do it now, after Kirk’s assassination. It’s good that Maher is saying it to them as bluntly as he is. 

I should note that the audience cheered when he said that. Most Americans are not crazy radicals, even though this week on X, it seemed as though there were a lot spewing hate. Maher called out any of those people who mocked Charlie Kirk’s death, saying he has “no use for you.” He also pointed out how Kirk was killed under a tent that said “Prove me wrong,” and that people want to “eliminate you for talking altogether.”

Bill Maher: “[Charlie Kirk] was shot under a banner that said ‘Prove Me Wrong.’… To many people, the way to do that… is to just eliminate you from talking altogether. So the people that mocked his death or justified it — I think you’re gross. I have no use for you.”

Ben… pic.twitter.com/AjKxcYBxbM

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) September 13, 2025

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro replied it was horrific that Kirk would be literally shot in the throat while debating, “We’ve come to some place incredibly dark in our nation’s history. I weep for the country and I weep for Charlie.”

Unfortunately, some on the left seem to have been at war for at least 10 years, which is a big reason why some have become so twisted. So you have to call them out, as Maher did, and keep doing it. If the left truly wants to bring down the temperature, that’s the first step they can take.