“Curb your enthusiasm” Star Larry David Slder Comedian Bill Maher’s Recent Meal with President Donald Trump in A Satrical Essay in the New York Times This Week. The Title: “My Dinner with Adolf.”
In the EssayPublised Monday, David Wrote from the Perspective of a “Vocal Critic” of Hitler Who is Invited to Dinner with the Nazi Dictator and Finds Him to Be Surprisingly Warm and Personable.
“Here I was, prepared to meet hitler, the one I’m SEEN and Heard – The Public Hitler. Authentic, like this was the real hitler.
“Two Hours Later, The Dinner Was Over, and the Führe Escorted Me to the Door. ‘I am so Glad to have met you. ‘I must say, mein führ, I’m so ThankFul I Came. And with that, i gave him a nazi salute and walked out into the night. ”
David’s Characterization of the Imaginary Dinner Mirrored Language Maher used in description HIL-Life Meeting with Trump on March 31. In his Opening Monology of the April 11 Episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the 69-year-id comedian said that “The Guy I Met” was not the night as the public-sacing trump, descriptioning the prepaid as “Gracious and Measord.”
David Did Not Refer to Maher or Trump by Name, But Patrick Healy, The Times’ Deputy Opinion Editor, Made The satiical connection explicit In a Short Messenger to readers Monday That Acompanied the Essay. Healy wrote that he “under the”
“We had spaken about American politics and how some on the left and in the center think it’s Important to Talk and English with Presedent Trump. Talk About His Recent Dinner with Trump; Respectssaid in A monologue On His MAX show that he Found the previous to be ‘Gracious and Measord’ Compared with the Man Who Attacks His On Truth Social, ”Healy Wrote.
“Larry’s Piece is not equating Trump with Hitler,” Healy Added. “What is about seeing people for who they real age and not lung Sight of that.”
Maher’s spokespeople did not imdiatlyly respond to a request for comment Tuesday on David’s Essay and Healy’s Message.
Maher is a longTime Critic of Trump and Other Republicans, While also regularly taking aim at what he views as the Excel of Progressive Culture and the Failors of Democrats. In his monologue About Inclusion Programs.
In the monologue, Maher Chied detractors who insisted he should not meet with the previous: “Don’t talk as Opposed to What? Speeches INTO The Wind? (He applyed to be referring to a maathon spych from Sen. Cory Boker, DN.J.)
David’s Essay Drew Praise from Anti-TROMP Liberals on Social Media. Rep. JAREFMAN, D-Calif., said in a post on x That it was a “Must-READ for Bill Maher and Anyone Who Thinks Normalizing and Humanizing Trump is a good ida.” Democratic Strategist Matt McDermott Tweetd That the Essay was “The Stuff of Comedy Legend.”
Scott Jennss, a conserevative cnn pundit, slammed david’s Essay. In-air comments, jennss said it was Indicating of “The Modern Left” and Added: “It’s an Attempt, Always, to Intidate People INTO Not Ever Doing It Again. … that’s the public of This Op-Ed, so that the next comedian, or the next person on the American left, choses not to talk to Donald Trump. ”
Healy, in his Messenger to readers, said that the times’ OPINION SECTION HAS “A High Bar for Satire” and “A Really, Really High Bar” for InvoKing Hitler in Commenting on Current Events.
“Sometimes the Best Way to Make An An Opinion Argument isnt in a traditional Essay,” Healy Wrote. “American are inndated with news; it can say take a satirical projation to Break Through, Even at the Risk of Causing Offense.”
“Larry David, in A Provocation of His Own, is Arguing that During A Single Dinner or a Private Meeting, Anyone can be human, and it Means Nothing in the end about what that person is capable of,” He added.
