It is quite clear which prompted Larry David’s satirical test today for the New York Times entitled “My dinner with Hitler”.
“Finally, I concluded that hatred requires us anywhere,” writes David about his fictitious meeting with the Führer. “I knew I couldn’t change her opinions, but we have to talk to the other side.”
Does that seem familiar?
A few weeks ago, Bill Maher, whom the Times underlines is “an actor Larry respects”, visited Donald Trump for dinner in the White House.
Describing the meeting on Real time Some days later, Maher said: “I am not the chief of anything, except perhaps a contingent of people with a centrist spirit who think that there must be a better way to manage this country than to hate each other.”
At one point, Maher said he had made a joke and had been surprised that Trump had laughed because he had never seen that before. He also said: “A crazy person does not live in the White House. A person who plays a lot on television on television there, what I know is F ** Ed up. It is not as f ** Ed as I thought.”
David: “I joked saying that I was surprised to see him in a tanned costume because if he wore it, it would be perceived as a-Führer. It was the real Hitler.
Patrick Healy, editor -in -chief of Times, wrote in a distinct play in which David’s essay came unlined. He also noted that “the opinion of Times has a high bar for satire … and we have a very, very high bar to comment on the world of today by invoking Hitler.”
Healy explains: “Larry’s play does not assimilate Trump to Hitler. It’s about seeing people for whom they are really and not to lose sight of. ”
He maintains that David, “in a provocation to him, says that in a single dinner or a private meeting, anyone can be human, and that means nothing at the end of what this person is capable of.”
You can read the whole test here and see Maher’s “report” on his dinner with Trump below.
