David Cross
Role at the time: Comedian and actor, as a guest on Club Random with Bill Maher
Response to this claim
Weaver described homeownership as racist and failed public policy.
“I have an issue with that thing that she said. I don't know this woman. I will definitely look her up.”
Full episode of Bill Maher's Club Random podcast with comedian David Cross, published on the show's YouTube channel on April 27, 2026. Maher raises Weaver while arguing that Mayor Mamdani is a communist; Maher's line about homeownership paraphrases Weaver's posts rather than quoting them. Speaker turns were checked against the audio and the show's captions.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The reference point is Weaver's homeownership remarks and her "impoverish the white middle class" post. Cross calls the homeownership remark ridiculous and says he objects to it, which rejects it, so we labeled it Condemned. Mixed or conditional is the closest alternative because he is a Mamdani supporter who had not read about Weaver, but his support for Mamdani concerns a different target and his objection to the remark is unqualified. He was responding to Maher's paraphrase, "all homeownership is racist," rather than to her exact wording. Evidence level: the published podcast video, with speaker turns checked against the audio and captions.