Scott Jennings Takes Apart Larry David's Unhinged Op-Ed on Trump/Maher Meeting

CNN had a panel discussion about Bill Maher's dinner with President Donald Trump.

One of the reasons that the meeting is commendable and comment-able is because the left has created this fiction of horror about Trump in order to try to inhibit his effectiveness. Maher just got tired of it and said he was going to breach that divide. So of course the left tried to rip into him for it. CNN noted an op-ed by Larry David on the dinner. The NY Times op-ed was titled, "My Dinner with Adolf," so you know right away how unhinged it was. Worse, for an alleged comedian, it wasn't even funny, it was just dumb and quite frankly offensive.

Here's a small sample.

Imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler. I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship. No one I knew encouraged me to go. “He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.” But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side — even if it has invaded and annexed other countries and committed unspeakable crimes against humanity.
Two weeks later, I found myself on the front steps of the Old Chancellery and was led into an opulent living room, where a few of the Führer’s most vocal supporters had gathered: Himmler, Göring, Leni Riefenstahl and the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that had been taken from the homes of Jews. [...]
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.

You get the point. It's just incredibly offensive to compare Trump to Hitler; you're diminishing the evil that Hitler was. He had millions of people killed, Trump wants to make America better. Practically the same thing in the mind of the left. And yeah, Kid Rock and Dana White aren't Heinrich Himmler or Herman Göring, either.

We've had ten years of this nonsense with people alleging this, and 77 million Americans rejected the narrative in November. Yet the left keeps wanting to sell this.

Our sister site Townhall pointed out the reason the left freaks out like this. They cited CNN political analyst Scott Jennings, who said it's about trying to stop anyone from following Maher, to silence and shame such impulses to reach out and dare to talk.

NEW: Scott Jennings says Larry David’s attack on Bill Maher wasn’t about dinner—it was the modern left threatening the next person into silence.

Larry David just dropped a venom-laced op-ed in the New York Times titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” unleashing on Bill Maher for one… pic.twitter.com/qcmvvKlw58
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) April 22, 2025

But the problem for the left here? They're the minority; they're supremely unpopular now. No one is buying what they are selling about Hitler except perhaps some of their base. Not even all the Democrats are buying this. When you had Joe Biden and Barack Obama smiling and/or laughing with Trump it sort of showed how empty this all was as well.

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It's gotten old, and it was dumb when it was new.

Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.

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