Bill Maher is getting another round of publicity for his dinner with Donald Trump — this time by way of reacting to Larry David’s “My Dinner With Adolf” essay for The New York Times. The not-so-thinly-veiled take-down of Maher’s cringe-inducing, 13-minute-long monologue about meeting the current U.S. President at a dinner organized by Kid Rock (yep) made waves on social media when it was published, mostly for using infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a stand-in for Donald Trump. The Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and star’s satirical dragging of the Real Time host’s claims of journalistic neutrality seems to have hit a nerve with Maher, who balked at the comparison between Trump and Hitler.
In a new interview with Piers Morgan (who apparently has a YouTube channel now), Maher called the spoof on his dinner “insulting” and not his “favorite moment in our friendship” (meaning that between he and David). But the biggest issue he took with it was comparing Trump to Hitler — which, it should be noted, isn’t 100% the point of what David was doing. As deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy wrote in a companion piece, “Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler. It is about seeing people for who they really are and not losing sight of that.”

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But it seems as though Maher has lost sight of that. “I think the minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument,” he opined. “Come on, man. Hitler, Nazis — nobody has been harder, 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. The fact that I reported honestly is not a sin either.”
Curious to know the rest of Maher’s thoughts and why he believes it’s unfair to compare anyone to Hitler? Read on for more (including video of the full chat).
Bill Maher Thinks Nobody Should Be Compared To Hitler, For Some Reason

Maher noted that he found it “kind of insulting to six million dead Jews” to compare Trump and Hitler. “It’s an argument you kind of lost just to start it. 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. We’re just going to have to leave it like that.” It was something Piers Morgan agreed with, at one point noting “that’s what I think” while Maher was speaking.
Maher did not go on to explain why Hitler needs to be otherized and set aside from apt comparisons, however. But surely he — a man of history — would agree that it is a folly to make what we all now see as a black-and-white evil something so removed that it lulls people into thinking it could not happen again, or is not happening currently (in just a slightly different manner or to a different group of people). History repeats itself in shades and echoes, not facsimiles, people.
For the record, if anyone wants to see a complete list of all the ways in which Donald Trump is operating exactly like Hitler and other dictators, feel free to peruse this link. Regardless of how “self-aware” and charming Bill Maher found Donald Trump at a singular dinner purposefully coordinated by Trump’s friends in order to make him seem likable, he’s still saying, proposing, and doing harmful, terrible, straight-up-fascistic things in this country right now.
But hey, Donald Trump laughs, so maybe we should all just be nice!
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