“The Hitler Thing”: Bill Maher Lashes Out At Larry David’s Mocking Of ‘Real Time’ Host’s Trump Dinner

Bill Maher may have broken bread with Donald Trump, but there is no love lost this week between the Real Time host and Larry David.

Three days after the Seinfeld co-creator ruthlessly mocked Maher in a New York Times “My Dinner With Hitler” op-end for chumming up with Trump at the White House late last month, the RT frontman tried to save face by moving the goal posts.

“To use the Hitler thing— first of all, I think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher told Piers Morgan in a more than 30 minutes video released Thursday. “That should kind of be in its own place.”

Calling fellow HBOer David a “friend,” Maher continued: The minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument. Nobody’s been more prescient about Donald Trump than me. Just the fact that I met him doesn’t change that.”

“I went back to my day job of tearing him a new asshole!” Maher with some hyperbole added to ex-Apprentice contestant and Trump pal Morgan on the latter’s Uncensored show.

On April 11, a charmed Maher detailed the sit-down with the “gracious” Trump, mutual friend Kid Rock, UFC boss Dana White and others his Real Time audience. “I’m just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours,” he said, noting how good humored Trump was about signing printouts of all the insults he’s hit the former Apprentice host with over the years. “I went into the mine, and that’s what’s down there. A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f—ed up. It’s just not as f—ed up as I thought it was.”

Even though Trump slagged Maher in a post before the dinner, Kid Rock said on Aprils’ Fools Day of his two buddies finally getting to know one another: “everyone was so surprised, so pleasant.”

While downplaying any real significance to the meeting between POTUS and the self-described “f*cking comedian” mocked “all of the people who treated this like it was some kind of summit meeting, you’re ridiculous.” Of course, previously Maher had openly compared his hanging out with fellow anti-woker Trump as “kind of a Nixon to China thing.”

An avowed critic of Trump, David feasted on Maher’s dull-wittedness in the dinner with Trump and his Real Time retelling of the occasion in his April 21 NYT piece.

“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,” the Curb Your Enthusiasm star satirically penned of his imaginary meeting with the man considered one of the most, if not the most, evil human beings ever. :That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler.”

Echoing Maher, David ended the scathing article: “Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the Führer escorted me to the door. “I am so glad to have met you. I hope I’m no longer the monster you thought I was.” “I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.” And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night.”

Real Time with Bill Maher is back Friday with former VP and almost POTUS Al Gore among the guests. Maybe they’ll compare Trump tales. Of course that White House dinner wasn’t the first time Maher and Trump actually met. The two and their dates hung out a bit at the 2004 Emmys – where both were nominated.