Comedian Larry David described HBO host Bill Maher’s cordial dinner with President Donald Trump in a New York Times satire, describing the “real” and “human” dinners with Adolf Hitler.
The “real-time” host not only met the president, but also angered many members of the liberal media by explaining that it was “graceful and measured” despite political differences.
“Look, I got it. It doesn’t matter who he is in a private dinner with a comedian. It’s important that he is on the world stage. I think this person is in a positive way. Everything I don’t like about him is because I swear to God with this guy and at least this night,” Maher said earlier this month.
President Donald Trump and comedian Bill Maher met at the White House earlier this month. (Getty Images)
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He said, “I’ve had a lot of conversations with prominent people who don’t have much connections, people who shouldn’t see you, people who just want to get to the next thing, so I’ve had a lot of conversations with people who don’t listen because they just don’t want to get to the next thing. It’s not him, he’s pretty much “What do you think about this?” I know, your mind is mine. ”
David’s article On Monday, he took a similar approach, depicting a fictional dinner between him and Hitler in 1939, reflecting “if only the world can see this side of him, people may have completely different opinions.”
“All of a sudden he looked very human,” David wrote. “Here I was ready to meet the people I saw, the people I heard, the people I had heard – the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal, and, oddly, this one looked more authentic.
Larry David appeared to be laughing at his meeting with Trump in a satirical article about his meeting with Hitler. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images | Photo by Dia dipasupil/filmmagic)
Patrick Healy, assistant opinion editor of the New York Times, defended the paper’s decision to publish the story on Today Newsletter despite “a really high bar for commenting on the world today by calling Hitler.” He argued that the article was about not comparing Trump to Hitler, but about “looking at who they really are and seeing who they haven’t lost sight of.”
“Larry David argues in his own provocation that, during a single dinner or private meeting, everyone can become human and ultimately means nothing about what they can do.” Healy wrote.
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Patrick Healy, assistant editor of NYT, argued that David’s work was not about comparing Trump to Hitler. (Pool via AP)
Leon Krause, columnist for the Washington Post I wrote it Last week we compared Maher’s comments about Trump with the flattering comments others gave to Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao about their private interactions.
“By agreeing to meet with Trump, being personally fascinated by his charismatic leader and sharing his soft new take on the president, Bill Maher has done his job of putting Trump accountable for more difficulties,” Crows concluded.
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Joseph Wulfsohn of Fox News contributed to this report.
