Larry David wrote a satirical essay, entitled “My dinner with Adolf”, for The New York TimesMaked the recent visit to Bill Maher’s White House with President Donald Trump.
In the opinion article, the Attach your enthusiasm Creator-Star imagined that it was in 1939 and that he was invited to dinner “with the most insulting man in the world, Adolf Hitler”. David joked: “I had been a vocal critic of sound on the radio from the start, predicting almost everything he was going to do on the way of the dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. ” He’s Hitler. It’s a monster. But ultimately, I concluded that hate makes us anywhere.
“I joked saying that I was surprised to see him in a tanned costume because if he wore it, he would be perceived as a Führer,” added David. “It amused him endlessly, and I realized that I had never seen him laugh before. Suddenly, he seemed so human. I was ready to meet Hitler, the one I had seen and heard – the Hitler public. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And strangely, it seemed more authentic, as it was the real Hitler. The whole thing was.”
THE Seinfeld The guest test of the co-creator occurred for weeks after Maher met Trump. After his visit, the president’s long -standing actor and enemy detailed dinner on his HBO program, Real time And shared his new perspective on Trump, the appellant “graceful and measured” and not as the “person who plays a crazy person on television”.
“The guy I met is not the person who night before dinner shit tweeted a bunch of nasty shit on the way he thought it was a bad idea and what a disturbed asshole,” said Maher at the time. “I read it and said to myself:” Oh, what a great way to welcome someone to your home. But when I got, this guy didn’t live there.
The actor added that he had learned that “a crazy person did not live in the White House” during the meeting. However, he said: “A person who plays a crazy person on television lives a lot, which, I know, is screwed up. It is not as screwed up as I thought.”
In his test, the usurpation of dinner, David concluded: “Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me at the door.” I’m so happy to have met you. I hope I am no longer the monster you think I was. “I must say that, I Führer, I am so grateful that I came. And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and I went out in the night.”
New York Times The editor -in -chief of opinion, Patrick Healy, also wrote a companion piece, detailing how David’s test occurred, as well as clarifying that he did not compare Trump to Hitler.
“Larry listened to Bill Maher talking about his recent dinner with Trump; Bill, an actor Larry, said in a monologue on his maximum show that he found that the president was” graceful and measured “compared to the man who attacks him on Truth Social”, wrote Healy. “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 added: “Larry David, in a provocation to him, argues 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.”
