Larry David mocks Bill Maher's dinner with Trump in an op-ed for The New York Times

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David skewered comedian Bill Maher’s recent meal with President Donald Trump in a satirical essay in The New York Times this week.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David skewered comedian Bill Maher’s recent meal with President Donald Trump in a satirical essay in The New York Times this week. The title: “My Dinner With Adolf.”

In the essay, published Monday, David wrote from the perspective of a “vocal critic” of Hitler who is invited to dinner with the Nazi dictator and finds him to be surprisingly warm and personable.

“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. The whole thing had my head spinning,” David wrote in the six-paragraph essay. 

“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.”

David’s characterization of the imaginary dinner mirrored language Maher used in describing his real-life meeting with Trump on March 31. In his opening monologue of the April 11 episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the 69-year-old comedian said that “the guy I met” was not the same as the public-facing Trump, describing the president as “gracious and measured.”