Bill Maher Blasts Media’s COVID-19 “Panic Porn,” Warning Gloom-And-Doom Coverage May Get Donald Trump Re-Elected

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By Dade Hayes Finance Editor Bill Maher, clad in his customary suit and tie but hosting HBO’s Real Time from his expansive back yard instead of the studio, ripped media coverage of COVID-19 as “panic porn,” warning it could get President Donald Trump re-elected. “News sources have to rein it in,” he said in the show’s closing monologue. “Everyone knows that coronavirus is no walk in the park … ‘cause you literally can’t walk in the park.

But at some point the daily drumbeat of depression and terror veers into panic porn.” After showing a parade of doomsday headlines from outlets both highbrow and low, he ranted, “you don’t have to put hot sauce on a jalopeño!” His logic on why this all helps Trump took something of a pretzel shape, but it