Larry David has turned his satirical talents toward Bill Maher in a New York Times essay over the comedian’s recent dinner with President Trump.
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David writes in “My Dinner With Adolf,” echoing Maher’s self-characterization as a Trump critic before their White House dinner on March 31.
“No one I knew encouraged me to go. ‘He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.’ But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.”
Throughout the piece, David skillfully parodies Maher’s revelations about Trump on his HBO show “Real Time.” Where Maher boasted about making Trump laugh (“I had never seen him laugh in public. But he does. At himself. And it’s not fake”), David writes that Hitler was “quite disarming” and “I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human.”
Mimicking Maher’s conclusion that a “crazy person doesn’t live in the White House, [just] a person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there,” David writes that his meeting left his “head spinning” as he discovered what seemed like “the real Hitler.”
David concludes his spoof by telling Hitler “he was glad they met” and that while they can still disagree, “we don’t have to hate each other.” Then, in a final satirical flourish: “I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.”
This isn’t David’s first satirical take on Trump for the Times either. He has previously written spoof articles including an account of Trump meeting with Russian agents and a fictional 3am conversation between Trump and Melania about Ukraine.
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