Comedian Larry David parodied HBO big Bill Maher’s cordial meal pinch President Donald Trump successful a New York Times satire portion describing an "authentic" and "human" meal pinch Adolf Hitler.
The "Real Time" big angered galore members of nan wide media by not only gathering pinch nan president but describing him arsenic "gracious and measured" contempt their governmental differences.
"Look, I get it. It doesn't matter who he is astatine a backstage meal pinch a comedian. It matters who he is connected nan world stage. I'm conscionable taking arsenic a affirmative that this personification exists. Because everything I've ever not liked astir him was, I committedness to God, absent astatine slightest connected this nighttime pinch this guy," Maher said earlier this month.

President Donald Trump and comedian Bill Maher met astatine nan White House earlier this month. (Getty Images)
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He added, "I've had truthful galore conversations pinch salient group who are overmuch little connected, group who don't look you successful nan eye, group don't really perceive because they conscionable want to get to their adjacent thing… None of that was him, and he mostly steered nan speech to ‘What do you deliberation astir this?’ I know, your mind is blown. So is mine."
David’s article connected Monday took a akin approach, depicting a fictional meal betwixt himself and Hitler successful 1939 and reflecting that "if only nan world could spot this broadside of him, group mightiness person a wholly different opinion."
"Suddenly he seemed truthful human," David wrote. "Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, nan 1 I’d seen and heard — nan nationalist Hitler. But this backstage Hitler was a wholly different animal. And oddly enough, this 1 seemed much authentic, for illustration this was nan existent Hitler. The full point had my caput spinning."

Larry David appeared to mock Maher's gathering pinch Trump successful a satirical article astir a gathering pinch Hitler. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images | Photo by Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic)
New York Times Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy defended nan paper’s determination to people nan communicative successful nan Opinion Today newsletter, contempt its "really precocious barroom for commenting connected today’s world by invoking Hitler." He based on nan article was not astir comparing Trump to Hitler but astir "seeing personification for who they really are and not losing show of that."
"Larry David, successful a provocation of his own, is arguing that during a azygous meal aliases a backstage meeting, anyone tin beryllium human, and it intends thing successful nan extremity astir what they’re tin of," Healy wrote.
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Fox News Digital reached retired to Maher’s publicist for a comment.

NYT Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy insisted David's portion was not astir comparing Trump to Hitler. (Pool via AP)
Washington Post columnist León Krauze wrote a akin portion past week comparing Maher’s comments astir Trump to flattery others person fixed to Adolf Hitler, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong complete their backstage interactions.
"By agreeing to meet pinch Trump, allowing himself to beryllium privately charmed by a charismatic leader and past sharing his softened caller return connected nan president, Bill Maher has made nan task of holding Trump accountable that overmuch much difficult," Krauze concluded.
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Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
Lindsay Kornick is an subordinate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and connected Twitter: @lmkornick.