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Larry David skewers Bill Maher-Trump meeting in satirical Hitler essay

In a satirical New York Times essay about Adolf Hitler, Larry David appeared to call out Bill Maher for his White House meeting with President Trump.

In a separate article, The New York Times' deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy explained why the outlet published David's essay that invokes Hitler, despite the fact that "callbacks to history can be offensive, imprecise or in terrible taste when you are leveraging genocidal dictators to make a point." Bill Maher calls himself 'a hero': The comedian says he spoke 'truth to power' during Trump meeting Another reader wrote that they saw the essay as a "commentary on millions of people," including David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" co-star Cheryl Hines, who is married to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr."Brilliant satire and I found it validating," the comment said. In a subsequent "Real Time" monologue, the comedian concluded that Trump is "much more self-aware than he lets on in public," though Maher assured his liberal fans that he "didn't go MAGA."

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