‘My Dinner With Adolf’: Larry David Drags Bill Maher’s Trump Meet in Scathing NYT Op-Ed – Without Mentioning Him
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Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld and star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, published a satirical op-ed in The New York Times on Monday titled “My Dinner With Adolf” that was an apparent shot at Bill Maher.
In the piece , David recounts an imagined dinner with Adolf Hitler in the spring of 1939. David’s story reads as a first-person account from a well-known critic of the Nazi regime who decides to accept an invitation to dine with the dictator at the “Old Chancellery.”
David never mentioned Maher by name in the piece. However, it was implied to have been a response to Maher’s retelling of his meeting with President Donald Trump.
The comedian wrote that “no one I knew encouraged me to go,” adding that he had been critical of Hitler “from the beginning.”
David added that despite warnings from other and personal reservations, his fictionalized narrator concluded “hate gets us nowhere” as he agreed to meet with Hitler:
Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room.
He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap on my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming. I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human.
The satirical account included Hitler laughing at jokes, sharing stories, and offering personal advice.
“He advised me it was best not to have any more contact with [my ex-girlfriend] or else I’d be right back where I started,” David wrote. “He said, ‘You’d be surprised. There are still feelings.’”
At the end of the fictional evening described by David, the narrator offered a “Sieg Heil” before telling Hitler, “Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.”
Maher recalled meeting Trump in an April 11 monologue on HBO’s Real Time.
The host said Trump was “gracious and measured” and that he never felt he “had to walk on eggshells” around the president.
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