Comedian Larry David mocked his friend Bill Maher's positive account of his dinner with President Donald Trump, equating the latter with Adolf Hitler in an op-ed published on The New York Times on Monday.
Titled "My Dinner With Adolf," the piece pretends to get a dinner invitation from Hitler despite being a critic of him. "I had been a vocal critic of everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go," David wrote, before saying "I concluded that ate gets us nowhere" and that "we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity."
Maher addressed his meeting, saying he was vocal about his criticism. "You don't want to talk to people? You have no power," he said, encouraging others to follow his lead instead of refraining from engaging with political opponents. "I mean, people seem to gloss over the fact that I went in there, I didn't surrender to him," he added.
The host revealed that he told Trump he had lost the 2020 election and asked him why he was "scaring his own citizens." "He's gonna be there for another four years, that's a long time to hold your breath."
David, however, disagrees. His op-ed continued with the false meeting with Hitler, describing a German leader who "gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard." "Suddenly he seemed so human," he added in another passage of the piece.
"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," David wrote.
The imagined account goes on to describe jokes between Hitler and David at Herman Göring's expense, as well as about crimes he committed. After discussing troubles with significant others and advice from Hitler, David said a particular comment ("There are still feelings" in a breakup for him despite being a dictator) "really resonated with me."
"We're not that different, after all. I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion," David said. The account concludes with a plea from Hitler, saying that "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," David concluded.
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