HBO host Bill Maher scoffed at people comparing President Donald Trump to German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Thursday interview with Piers Morgan.
Maher joined UFC President Dana White and musician Kid Rock at the White House for a dinner in late March, prompting comedy writer Larry David to pen a satirical column in The New York Times called “My Dinner With Adolf.” Maher said he didn’t need to be “lectured” about Trump during the interview on the set of his “Club Random” podcast.
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“First of all, it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews,” Maher said. “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.”
Maher took fire from liberals for having dinner with Trump, with former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann accusing the “Real Time with Bill Maher” host of “prostituting himself.”
“This wasn’t my favorite moment of our friendship. I think the minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument,” Maher said, with Morgan agreeing. “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.”
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Maher has vocally disagreed with Democrats on multiple issues in recent years, notably Israel’s war with the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas, child sex changes, biological men competing in women’s sports and wokeness. Maher extended an olive branch to David, referencing the report he gave of his dinner with Trump during the April 11 episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“I can take a shot and I can also take it when people disagree with me. That’s not exactly the way I would’ve done it,” Maher told Morgan. “Again, the irony: let’s go back to what my original thing was. There’s got to be a better way than hurling insults and not talking to people. If I can talk to Trump, I can talk to Larry David too.”
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