The feud between Bill Maher and Larry David continues. To recap, Bill went to the White House to have dinner with Donald Trump, Dana White, and Kid Rock. Real all-star cast there, obviously. While Kid Rock spends his time rambling about the media's lack of coverage afterwards, the Real Time host opened up about speaking with the President.
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"Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage. I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists. Because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent at least on this night with this guy," Maher recalls.
Larry David clearly takes issue with this sentiment. Consequently, he writes an essay for the New York Times where he makes a big joke out of the big spectacle. The Seinfeld co-creator satirizes Maher and his Trump dinner by comparing it to a sit down with Adolf Hitler. "Suddenly he seemed so human," Larry quips. "Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I'd seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning."
Bill Maher Claps Back at Larry David for His New York Times Essay
Evidently, Bill was incensed by Larry David's essay. Recently, he sat down with Piers Morgan for an interview reacting to the New York Times piece. Immediately, Maher goes on the defensive and scoffs at the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator using Hitler as a Trump example. "To use the Hitler thing — first of all, I think it's kind of insulting to six million dead Jews," he says. "That should kind of be in its own place."
"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," Maher adds.
It's strange to treat this as like an anomaly of evil. America commits evils on a similar scale behind the scenes. Particularly, the Trump and Biden administrations sit idly and encourage the genocide of Palestinian people. So this idea that Hitler is 'the GOAT of evil' is naive or insincere commentary from Maher. These evils still happen everyday, Nazi Germany was unfortunately not an anomaly.
