Bill Maher Fumes Over Larry David’s Op-Ed Mocking His Trump Meeting: ‘Insulting to Six Million Dead Jews’

 

Bill Maher responded to comedian Larry David during a Thursday interview with Piers Morgan, reacting to an op-ed published earlier in the week that was a veiled swipe at his meeting with President Donald Trump.

Maher said on Piers Morgan Uncensored that David’s satirical piece about a meeting with Hitler that changed his mind about Nazism was an “insult” to Jews who died during the Holocaust.

Earlier this month on HBO’s Real Time, Maher described Trump during their meeting as “gracious and measured.” The host said he didn’t feel the need to “walk on eggshells” around Trump during their interaction and that the president is different in person.

On Monday, David published a satirical op-ed in The New York Times titled, “My Dinner With Adolf.”

The Seinfeld co-creator wrote a fictional account of a 1939 dinner with Adolf Hitler, written in the style of a first-person commentary from someone known for criticizing the Nazi regime.

Maher was not mentioned by name, but the piece was widely seen as a response to Maher’s retelling of his sit-down with Trump.

In his interview with Morgan, Maher said he and David are longtime friends but accused the Curb Your Enthusiasm star of engaging in insulting hyperbole.

“I mean, this wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship, but, you know, look, I don’t want to get too much into that, but I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you’ve lost the argument,” Maher said. He continued:

I must say, you know come on, man, Hitler? Nazis? Nobody has been harder about and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn’t change that. And the fact I reported honestly is not a sin either. To use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know, like, that should kind of be in its own place in history.

And you know, I know people can say, well, we’re just comparing it in this way. Well, it’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. It’s just, look, maybe it’s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place. He is the GOAT of evil. And we’re just going to have to, I think, leave it like that. So, you know, did I think that was appropriate? No, but people have the right to this.

Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.

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