Bill Maher is standing his ground over dining with Donald Trump after recent Nazi comparisons.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comedian went on a tangent about taking “some shit from the ‘looney left’” over his dinner with Trump, referencing Larry David‘s recent New York Times essay ‘My Dinner with Hitler‘ about the meeting.
“I just think ‘Nazi’ is a hard word to use with nuance. So, when you bring that word out—I feel like they’re the goat of evil, and so it just conflates your [argument],” he told guest Al Gore, without directly naming David or referencing the article.
“I guarantee that the side of the country that voted for Trump, they hear ‘Nazi,’ and they just go, ‘Oh, you’re calling us Nazis?’ First of all, it’s a bit of a false premise, as bad as they are. And also, it just says to them, ‘Well, you just hate us.’ And one thing I’ve learned in recent years, the one thing that’s more powerful than money is hate.”
Maher continued, “When people hate you so much, and they think you hate them so much, even the money goes out the window. Not that I think Trump is going to survive if he takes the economy down. But this idea that—well, I’ll just take a random example—you can’t even break bread with them, ‘we hate you so much, you’re a deplorable and you’re not worth having dinner with.’”
Bill Maher recounts his dinner with Donald Trump and Kid Rock.
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After David’s satirical essay teased that “this private Hitler was a completely different animal,” praising him as “more authentic,” Maher vented to Piers Morgan, “To use the Hitler thing— first of all, I think it’s kind of insulting to six million dead Jews. That should kind of be in its own place.”
“The minute you play the ‘Hitler’ card, you’ve lost the argument,” claimed Maher. “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!”
The latest episode of Real Time comes after Maher praised Trump as “gracious and measured” following their dinner with mutual friend Kid Rock.
