{"id":48148,"date":"2025-04-25T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48148\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:56:09","slug":"bill-maher-says-larry-davids-essay-about-him-insults-6-million-dead-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48148\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Says Larry David’s Essay About Him Insults ‘6 Million Dead Jews’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedian Bill Maher<\/a> insists he\u2019s OK with Larry David<\/a> writing a scathing piece<\/a> spoofing Maher\u2019s recent meeting<\/a> with President Donald Trump,<\/a> but he thinks his fellow comedian needs to apologize.<\/p>\n

Not to him, of course, but to the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust during World War II.<\/p>\n

Maher visited the White House recently to meet Trump and described the president as \u201cgracious and measured.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reaction to Maher\u2019s praise of Trump, David wrote a piece titled\u00a0\u201cMy Dinner With Hitler\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that the New York Times published on Monday.<\/p>\n

The piece is set in 1939 and is written from the standpoint of someone critical of Adolf Hitler who decides to meet with him, just to get the F\u00fchrer\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Maher\u2019s name is never mentioned, but the piece subtly burns him by turning the nice things the comedian said about Trump into nice comments about the Nazi leader.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s piece ends, \u201cAlthough we disagree on many issues, it doesn\u2019t mean we have to hate each other. And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked right out into the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

David\u2019s piece has been praised for its brutal satire, but Maher found it easy to curb his enthusiasm for the piece when Piers Morgan asked him about it on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Morgan began by noting that Maher and David are supposedly friends, which led Maher to admit, \u201cThis wasn\u2019t my favorite moment of our friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher seemed to want to avoid giving David any more oxygen, but he couldn\u2019t help taking a swipe at his comedy colleague.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t want to get too much into that, but I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you\u2019ve lost the argument,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n

Maher continued to gripe about having his meeting with Trump conflated with Hitler and the Nazis and then claimed no one has protested the president harder than he has.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody has been harder about and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me,\u201d Maher said. \u201cI don\u2019t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him in person didn\u2019t change that. And the fact I reported honestly is not a sin either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher then griped about David\u2019s comparison of Trump to Hitler, saying, \u201cI just think it\u2019s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. You know, like, that should kind of be in its own place in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then attempted to argue that Hitler comparisons have no place in 21st-century American politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just, look, maybe it\u2019s not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place,\u201d Maher said. \u201cHe is the GOAT of evil. And we\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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