Larry David has penned a satirical essay, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” for The New York Times, mocking Bill Maher’s recent White House visit with President Donald Trump.

In the opinion piece, the Curb Your Enthusiasm creator-star imagined it was 1939 and that he had been invited to dinner “with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.” David joked, “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. No one I knew encouraged me to go. ‘He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.’ 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 — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.”

“I joked that I was surprised...