“My Dinner with Adolf”: Larry David roasts Bill Maher’s meeting with Trump in satirical NYT essay

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/21/my-dinner-with-adolf-larry-david-roasts-bill-mahers-meeting-with-in-satirical-nyt-essay/

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  2. Pretty, pretty, pretty good. Hope angry little old man Bill Maher reads it..

  4. Bill Maher has an average viewership of 650k people weekly nationwide; vs 9.3 million daily readers of the NYT, or 48 million weekly viewers like Joe Rogan.

    Proportionality and perspective are important. I didn’t realise so many people gave a shit about what Bill Maher does.

  5. Love this for him. Bill Maher is soft as baby shit, and you know he’s jealous of Larry David who is beloved and actually funny.

  6. Maher should’ve faded into irrelevance years ago when he used the hard R in his jokes thinking he somehow earned a pass for being a liberal.

  7. I find it so strange that some people could ever be hoodwinked by Trump in any context. I’ve never needed someone to sit down and explain exactly why he’s a bad person, he just exudes it from every pore. It’s not like my only frame of reference is his political speeches or policy. I watched the Joe Rogan interview. I watched all these streams where he’s being nice.

    Even when he’s not being outwardly aggressive, he is still completely and utterly insufferable. He can’t even tell you about knickknacks on the wall without sounding like a sleazy used car salesman. He’s a grifter and a liar and a braggart and a liar again. It’s just who he is in his soul and I’ve never seen him behave in a way that suggests he’s an actual human being. He’s like an empty vessel being puppeted by demons.

    I’m certain I couldn’t stand in a room with him for five minutes. He just has no redeeming qualities.

  11. I’ve lost so much respect for Bill. What a self centred clown. “Oh, you have it all wrong, he was so charming to me. Fuck all the shitty things he does to everyone else”.

    Get stuffed.

  12. Incredible. If only most of the American public could actually understand it.

  15. Bill Maher is fucking stupid. It’s crazy. It turns out, so many Americans are pants on head dipshits. Is it CTE? Why aren’t other countries this dumb? Maybe other countries have more control over their dummies but America celebrates stupidity. Bill maher is an idiot. Why does he even have a platform? Do the other idiots just like to hear idiocy ? Maybe they can’t understand multi syllabic words and any thought that isn’t digestible for an 8-year-old? God damn. And trump is even more dumb. Trump makes Maher look like fucking ramanujan.

  16. Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf

    > Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. 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.

    > Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room.

    > He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap on my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming. I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.

    > He said he was starving and led us into the dining room, where he gestured for me to sit next to him. Göring immediately grabbed a slice of pumpernickel, whereupon Hitler turned to me, gave me an eye roll, then whispered, “Watch. He’ll be done with his entire meal before you’ve taken two bites.” That one really got me. Göring, with his mouth full, asked what was so funny, and Hitler said, “I was just telling him about the time my dog had diarrhea in the Reichstag.” Göring remembered. How could he forget? He loved that story, especially the part where Hitler shot the dog before it got back into the car. Then a beaming Hitler said, “Hey, if I can kill Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals, I can certainly kill a dog!” That perhaps got the biggest laugh of the night — and believe me, there were plenty.

    > But it wasn’t just a one-way street, with the Führer dominating the conversation. He was quite inquisitive and asked me a lot of questions about myself. I told him I had just gone through a brutal breakup with my girlfriend because every time I went someplace without her, she was always insistent that I tell her everything I talked about. I can’t stand having to remember every detail of every conversation. Hitler said he could relate — he hated that, too. “What am I, a secretary?” He advised me it was best not to have any more contact with her or else I’d be right back where I started and eventually I’d have to go through the whole thing all over again. I said it must be easy for a dictator to go through a breakup. He said, “You’d be surprised. There are still feelings.” Hmm … there are still feelings. That really resonated with me. We’re not that different, after all. I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion.

    > Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.

  17. I watched the whole video of Bill Maher and you can tell how insane and gullible Bill Maher looks by the end of it. He admits that Trump called him names publicly just for doing his job but he tries to make it cute by getting Trump to sign that paper and puts that incident forward as pretending that Trump knows how to take a joke.

    In the whole segment, Bill Maher, MULTIPLE TIMES admits that Trump’s public persona is not same as his private persona and public persona is what matters. But instead of calling out this duplicity, he actually praises it for some reason. How out of touch do you have to be to realise that you are being taken for ride and still go on that ride and then give that ride 5-stars?

  18. F Bill Maher. He’s a small minded and angry little man that somehow managed to bamboozle some people. He was on Murder She Wrote as an actor (he’s ancient). Angela Lansbury was more forward thinking than this old trash joke of a man in her later years.

  19. Larry David is awesome and he is related to Bernie. He is the coolest grandpa and boomer right now

  22. What a difference a few decades make. Bill used to be mildly funny and on the right side of history, but that was a long, long, time ago now.

  23. Forget Bill Maher. Wait until Trump finds out there’s a bad OP-ed about himself.
    Last time that resulted in a student getting kidnapped by at least 6 civilian-clothed ICE agents, and moved to an out-of-state deportation camp.

  24. Every time this shit happens, I wonder how much dirt trump has on every single person he meets with. It’s wild, but as soon as he meets with people like Lindsay graham, who absolutely loathe him, they meet privately and change their mind about him entirely.

  26. While I think meeting with Trump was a terrible idea, I do think working across party lines is absolutely necessary in US politics. That said, Trump is the exception to the rule. He’s pure evil. It *is* like meeting with Hitler.

    Nevertheless, I’m a traditional Democrat who has not bought into the progressive stuff that has been happening in the past ten years. I supported gay marriage and legal weed, and I pretty much hit the ceiling there. I do not remotely support political correctness, equity, MeToo, virtue signaling, or any sort of progressive utopia. I also think Bill Maher is smart and entertaining. I understand that progressives might hate him, but it’s kind of hard to take you guys seriously with all of your whining and pipe dreams as well.

  27. I listened to Mahers ‘book review’ on the dinner with Trump and it was nauseating so well done Larry David on nailing this naive sycophant.

  28. Bernie Sanders and Larry David should run for President/VP. Bernie will make you think, Larry will make you laugh. They will both tell it like it is. Plus think of all the “Parent Trap” style antics that could happen!

    Sanders/David 2028

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