Larry David Spoofs Bill Maher’s White House Visit With ‘My Dinner With Adolf’ Essay: ‘Private Hitler Was a Completely Different Animal’
Larry David spoofed Bill Maher’s glowing review of his White House dinner with Donald Trump with a satirical essay in The New York Times entitled, “My Dinner With Adolf.”
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote in his fictitious account. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
Maher teased his March 31 dinner with Trump on social media in the days leading up to the date, with many expecting a blowout between the mouthy late-night pundit and controversial president. However, on an April 12 episode of “Real Time,” Maher gushed about the meeting, praising the president as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on.”
“Everything I’ve...
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote in his fictitious account. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
Maher teased his March 31 dinner with Trump on social media in the days leading up to the date, with many expecting a blowout between the mouthy late-night pundit and controversial president. However, on an April 12 episode of “Real Time,” Maher gushed about the meeting, praising the president as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on.”
“Everything I’ve...
- 4/22/2025
- by Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
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