Dan Abrams Takes Side In Trump-Larry David-Bill Maher Fracas: ‘When You Start Bringing In Hitler—’

Mediaite founder Dan Abrams took a side in the feud between comic superstars Bill Maher and Larry David over President Donald Trump and a satirical dinner with Adolf Hitler.

David cut deeply at Maher with a satirical op-ed mocking the Real Time host’s account of a White House visit by equating it to a humanizing dinner with Hitler. Entitled, “My Dinner With Adolf,” David’s piece mimicked Maher’s post-Trump explications.

“Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler,” David wrote. “But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler.”

Abrams — whose commentary can also be found at the Mediaite YouTube channel — was a guest on Monday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, during which he took Maher’s side on the basis that when you invoke Hitler, “You know you’ve lost the argument”:

PHILLIP: It’s pretty cutting but he kind of mirrors almost exactly what Bill Maher said. Maybe I should just play it just so people know. This is what Bill Maher said after he met with Trump.

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MAHER: To all the people who treated this like it was some kind of summit meeting, you’re ridiculous. Like I was going to sign a treaty or something. I have — I have no power (BEEP). I’m a comedian and he’s the most powerful leader in the world.

Meet up in person. Maybe it’ll be different. Spoiler alert, it was. So no, I didn’t go MAGA. And to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to. Just for starters, he laughs. I’d never seen him laugh in public, but he does.

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PHILLIP: He laughed.

ABRAMS: I’m still with Bill Maher on this one because I think that if people like Bill Maher can’t go and talk to Donald Trump, we are — we are really messed up now, because, think about it. Now, he is still going to go and criticize Donald Trump, right? He just has a little more credibility when he’s doing it. And the notion when you start bringing in Hitler, right? You know you’ve lost the argument.

Anytime anyone invokes Hitler, right? And makes the comparison, you’re going to lose. You’re going to lose because no one — every –everyone apart from the echo chamber is going to stop listening to you and that’s my point. It’s my goal and I hope other people’s goal is what you do on the show every night.

Get people talking. Have a conversation with people you don’t agree with. That’s what Bill Maher is saying. That’s what he’s talking about and Larry David is basically taking the position, no that shouldn’t happen.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight and catch more commentary from Dan Abrams on the Mediaite YouTube channel.