Comedian Bill Maher hit back at Larry David over his unhinged New York Times Op-Ed titled “My Dinner with Adolf [Hitler]” mocking Maher’s dinner with President Donald Trump.
In the April 21 piece, David ridiculously compared Trump to Hitler and took a jab at Maher’s praise for Trump after the comedian called the president “gracious and measured” in his details about the dinner, as RedState reported.
“This wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship. I think the minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument,” Maher said about the Op-Ed. “Come on, man. Hitler, Nazis — nobody has been harder, and more prescient I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn’t change that. The fact that I reported honestly is not a sin either.”
“First of all, it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” he added about the piece. “It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. Look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the GOAT of evil. We’re just going to have to leave it like that.”
🚨 .@billmaher told @piersmorgan that Larry David invoking Hitler to mock his dinner with Trump is “kind of insulting” to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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“I don’t want to make this constantly personal with me and Larry. We might be friends again,” Maher continued. “I can take a shot and I also can take it when people disagree with me. That’s not exactly the way I would’ve done it. Again, the irony: let’s go back to what my original thing was. There’s got to be a better way than hurling insults and not talking to people. If I can talk to Trump, I can talk to Larry David too.”
The following is a refresher on the unhinged rant by David in his piece about a fictitious dinner between Hitler and one of his critics.
Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. 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. 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. 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. […]Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.
Maher has defended his dinner with Trump several times against critics on the left, most recently saying he “should be a hero” for his visit rather than the “villain.”
