By Katherine Tinsley
11:44am PDT, Apr 25, 2025
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Larry David wrote about Bill Maher's dinner with Donald Trump in an op-ed for
The New York Times, but he wrote the article from the perspective of a radio personality meeting with Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich in 1939.
"No one I knew encouraged me to go. 'He's Hitler. He's a monster.' But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere," David wrote in a piece published on Monday, April 21.
"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," he continued.
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Shortly after the article was published, Bill Maher sat for an interview with
Piers Morgan.
"I mean, this wasn't, you know, my favorite moment of our friendship," Maher told Morgan on the April 24 episode of
Piers Morgan Uncensored.
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Donald Trump has been unfavorably compared to Adolf Hitler and other dictators throughout the course of his political career.
"I think the minute you play the Hitler card, you've lost the argument," Bill Maher told Piers Morgan. "And also, I must say, you know, come on, man. Hitler? Nazis?"
"Nobody has been harder about and on and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me. I don't need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is," he continued. "Just the fact that I met him in person didn't change that, and the fact that I reported honestly is not a sin either."
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Bill Maher later noted how Larry David's comments could be insensitive to Holocaust survivors.
"But, you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it's kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews, you know," he said. "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."
"Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place," Maher continued. "He is the GOAT of evil, and we're just going to have to, I think, leave it like that."
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Despite the nature of Larry David's comments, Bill Maher told Piers Morgan they still "can be" friends.
"I can take a shot, and I also can absolutely take it when people disagree with me," Maher said. "You know, that's not exactly the way I would have done it… If I could talk to Trump, I could talk to Larry David, too. You know, I could talk to anybody."
