Bill Maher tears into Yale psychiatrist for telling liberals to cut off family members who voted for Trump

Bill Maher has hit out at a Yale psychiatrist who said it was okay to disown family members who had voted for president-elect Donald Trump. 

Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a child psychiatry fellow at the Ivy league school, had made the comments earlier this month on MSNBC after Trump's election. 

Speaking with Joy Reid, she said: 'There is a societal norm that if somebody is your family that they are entitled to your time and I think the answer is absolutely not.'

Speaking on his show Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian went after Calhoun as he made a stinging comparison. 

Maher said: 'How pure, it's like not letting certain people sit with you on the bus', as a picture of civil rights activist Ros Parks appeared beside him. 

Maher continued: 'She also said that it shouldn't be automatic that family members think they are entitled to your.

'She said that's just a societal norm', before Maher said: 'family, who do they think they are? Family?' as his audience broke out in applause. 

Flashing a picture of Calhoun, he added: 'You know who I really wouldn't want to have Thanksgiving dinner with. 

'This overly educated, extremely stupid, ivory tower academic. But I would because if we ever want this nation to heal this is what we have to do.'

Reid had prompted the answer from Calhoun after she started discussing the LGBTQ community and other minority groups that are feeling vulnerable after the election. 

Calhoun previously made headlines last year when she said doctors should be forced to wear body cameras to catch the racist ones.

Writing for The Boston Globe, she said: 'I have witnessed countless racist behaviors toward Black patients, often coupled with conscious and cruel statements.'

'I have heard White nurses joke that young Black children will probably join gangs and doctors describe the natural hair of Black people as “wild” and “unkempt".'

Maher has not been holding back since Trump's resounding election win, and has been eviscerating far left liberal as well as the Democratic party in recent weeks. 

Last week, he accused some Democrats of being 'flat-out stupid' as he spoke about their losing campaign. 

He said: 'When you're in a hole, stop digging, not keep digging. Talk about doubling down on what got you f***** in the first place.'

Maher continued to mock them as he referenced 'Queers for Palestine' T-shirts and those who are 'still wearing masks, two years after the pandemic ended,' adding that Donald Trump supporters 'don't have a monopoly on stupid.'

Maher also teased the Teachers Union Education Program, which is largely run by Democratic voters, claiming they've 'turned schools and colleges into a joke'.

The television host, who has appeared on popular daytime television shows like The View and on CNN, likened the liberal party to a 'Portlandia sketch'.

As well as acting Dems, he also roasted Donald Trump on Friday over his controversial cabinet picks. 

He could hardly contain his laughter as he rifled through nominees including Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth. 

'The Republicans, man, when they take power, they grab it by the p***y,' he began. 'They don't f*** around.'

Noting that Gaetz dropped out as Trump's nominee for Attorney General amid controversy over a child sex trafficking investigation - in which he was not charged - Maher said Republicans decided he was 'too despicable, even for us.' 

He ended his monologue while chuckling as he named WWE wrestling executive Linda McMahon as Education Secretary.