By Molly Goddard
2:39am PDT, Apr 23, 2025
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Larry David is seemingly trolling
Bill Maher for making nice with
Donald Trump.
In a Monday, April 21, op-ed for
The New York Times, the
Curb Your Enthusiasm star penned a satirical story about an imagined meeting with
Adolf Hitler, allegedly reflecting the late-night host's dinner with the current commander-in-chief at the White House.
Keep reading to hear David's made-up story that seemingly mirrors Maher's sit-down with Trump…
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In the fake story, Larry David writes a first-person account of having
dinner with Adolf Hitler at the "Old Chancellery" in 1939. Despite the similarities, the actor never explicitly names Bill Maher as the inspiration behind the essay.
"No one I knew encouraged me to go," David penned, adding how he was critical of the dictator "from the beginning."
The
Seinfeld co-creator pointed out how people advised him not to speak with Hitler, but he insisted "hate gets us nowhere."
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"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," Larry David said in jest about meeting Adolf Hitler. "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."
The television star pointed out the regularity of interacting with the leader of the Nazi party. "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," David wrote.
"Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn't mean that we have to hate each other," the producer concluded the story.
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During the Friday, April 11, episode of
Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Maher recounted his March
conversation with Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.
"What I'm going to do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it," he stated about the backlash. "It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian; it matters who he is on the world stage. Why can't we get the guy I met to be the public guy?"
Maher continued, "I didn't go MAGA. And to the president's credit, there was no pressure to. He gave me a bunch of hats, but he didn't ask me to take a picture in one, which I appreciated. The guy I met is not the person who the night before the dinner tweeted a bunch of nasty c*** about how he thought this dinner was a bad idea and what a deranged (expletive) I was. I read it and thought, oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house."
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After Bill Maher was publicly shamed for meeting with Donald Trump, the stand-up comedian claimed he should be applauded for crossing political lines.
"I should be a
hero for going there and doing those things and saying those things to the president. I'm not the villain here," he added on a podcast.
"I should be a hero for being one of the people who got inside the inner sanctum and was able to say to this person — who knows how much he ever hears anything that's not coming from the cult — and say those things and stick to my guns," Maher said.
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Although the meeting between Bill Maher and Donald Trump allegedly went well, the Republican leader ripped into the HBO star weeks before their visit.
"The problem is, no matter how much he likes your favorite president, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc., very much like the
Democrats at my recent Address to the Joint Session of Congress, where I stated, correctly, that no matter what I said or did, they wouldn't stand, they wouldn't applaud, they wouldn't smile or laugh and certainly, they wouldn't be in any way 'nice,'" Trump wrote in a March 30 Truth Social update.
