Larry David has usurped the complimentary criticism of Bill Maher from his White House dinner with Donald Trump with a satirical test in the New York Times entitled “My dinner with Adolf”.
“I had been a vocal critic on the radio from the start, predicting just about everything he was going to do on the road to the dictatorship,” wrote David in his fictitious story. “But ultimately, I concluded that hatred we do not do anywhere. I knew that I could not change his opinions, but we have to speak to the other side.”
Maher teased his dinner on March 31 with Trump on social networks in the days preceding the date, many expected an eruption between the end of the evening expertise and the controversial president. However, in an episode of April 12 of “Real Time”, Maher sprang from Reunion, praising the president as “graceful” and “much more aware of oneself than he leaves it”.
“Everything I never liked about him was – I swear to God – absent, at least that night with this guy,” said Maher. “He mainly directed the conversation to:” What do you think of that? ” I know: your mind is blown.
Maher had formerly been a frank critic from Trump and Trump of Maher. In the past, the commander -in -chief described the actor as “bass life” with a “dead” show. Even again, the visit to the White House was sufficient to change Maher’s mind.
“A madman does not live in the White House,” he added. “A person who plays a crazy person on television lives a lot there, which, I know, is screwed up. It’s not as screwed up as I thought.”
David imitated Maher’s tone, writing: “I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tanned costume because if he wore it, it would be perceived as a Führer. This one seemed more authentic, as it was the real Hitler.
In a companion article, the deputy editor of the New York Times opinion, Patrick Healy, detailed the origins of David’s essay.
“Larry listened to Bill Maher talking about his recent dinner with Trump,” wrote Healy. “Bill, an actor Larry respects, said in a monologue on his maximum program that he found that the president was” graceful and measured “compared to the man who attacks him against social truth. Larry’s play does not assimilate Trump to Hitler. It is a question of seeing the people for whom they are really and not to lose sight of.”
He continued: “Larry David, in a provocation to himself, 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.”
