The Adam Mockler Show - Larry David COOKS Bill Maher Over Trump Meeting

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network breaks down the growing feud between Bill Maher and Larry David, sparked by Maher’s glowing comments after dining with Trump. Join my Substack as a free or paid subscriber: https://www.adammockler.com/subscribe Become a member to support me! https://www.youtube.com/Adammockler/join https://patreon.com/adammockler Adam Mockler Socials: Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.bsky.social Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/Adammockler Contact me at: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - amock LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, I got to read you this op-ed that Larry David wrote about Bill Maher titled My Dinner with Adolf. And this is just a small part of a clash that is happening between a bunch of cultural icons. I would argue they're cultural icons because people like James Carville came out and ripped Bill Mar after he had dinner with Trump and was seemingly very, very charmed. Off the back of Carvel ripping Bill Mar, Larry David comes out and finishes him with this op-ed. So I want to break it all down. And you know, when Bill Maher met with Trump, I tried to take a nuanced position, and I still stand by it. I don't think Bill Maher is a far-right maga lunatic. People in my comments were saying Bill Maher is officially maga.

That's not even true. I still think he is broadly a liberal who probably rails too much against wokeness, as he calls it, and he is so narcissistic that he was charmed by another narcissistic, rich, older dude. I mean, it is a tale as old as time. You're telling me that Donald Trump, who spent his entire life having dinners with politicians and comedians and rich people is charming and a one-on-one, of course. Narcissists are known for being charming. That is one of their, they make you feel like the center of the universe for just one hour,

and that is how they get you. So Carville ripped Bill Maher for being, quote, supremely naive. And I totally agree. Bill Maher is not some, like, far right proud boy now, but he is very naive and narcissistic. Marr responds to backlash over the meeting, calling himself a hero for speaking to Trump in keeping his friends. in keeping his principles.

And, you know, here's the problem. Here is the huge problem with Bill Maher's stunt perfectly on this page. So I'm currently on the Fox News website because they had a solid article about this. And I wanted to see what they had to say. And when I'm on the Fox News website, I scroll down and it's a video of Bill Marr praising Trump for being, quote, more self-aware than he appears. So Bill Maher's segment on his meeting with Trump was then immediately weaponized by Fox News by Ben Shapiro.

by all of these right-wing news organizations to show that Trump is actually pretty cool and honestly, Bill Maher fell into Trump's trap. For as much of an idiot, this dude is about policy, he seriously knows how PR works and how to manipulate the media. And if that makes you mad or if you disagree with that at this point, then that's Trump 101. You're far behind. Trump is very, very good at the PR aspect. And this is a good example.

Democratic strategist James Carvel said he thinks HBO host Bill Maher was fooled by Donald Trump's charm. the former Bill Clinton advisor and his co-host Al Hunt criticized the real-time with Bill Maher host for having a meeting and a portion of their politics war room podcast that released Sunday. Let's see where James Carville had to say. He's a friend of mine. I've been on the show, I don't know, many, many times. I'm also a big fan of government aggression with him. I think the two of them, I say, Bill Maher and say, look, he's the president.

I don't agree with him. No one's been more critical with him than I have, but I went and he was very charming. I think I would defend Bill Moore to this extent. I think he's a supremely naive man, all right? I think that somebody who shits on a constitution, that's exactly what he does, has been caught lying 36,400. and 11 times or whatever the number is. Somebody could fact-check this.

Someone who's convicted of 34 felonies in a court of competent jurisdiction, a person who set up every griff that you can imagine, I think the problem would people have with Bill, I have the same one, is you're kind of leading legitimacy and credence to this. Now, are you going to come back and say, yeah, but he got elected, James, you know, I'm hard on him, but I don't, I think, I think Bill Moore, and I think to some extent Whitmer went into this not fully understanding that they gave legitimacy to a guy who is only legitimate by the fact that he got elected to something and

nothing. Pretty well said from James Carville. Now, I do think Bill Maher, what he did was a little bit more egregious than what Gretchen Whitmer did. Because at the end of the day, Gretchen Wittmer was trying to represent her estate. There were still some oddness there. But man, Bill Moore coming back and saying, Trump was so charming. It's like, yeah, narcissists tend to charm other narcissists. That's kind of how it works. And here's a take that I really like. Larry David wrote, my dinner with Adolf. This came out early this morning. It says, 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.

By the way, Larry David wrote Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld and then went on to make curb your enthusiasm. So I would say he's a cultural icon. Quote, I'd 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. Quote, 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 furor's most vocal supporters had gathered. Himmler, Goering, Riefenstahl, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII. We talked about some of the beautiful art on the walls that have been taken from the homes of Jews. But our conversation ended abruptly when we heard loud footsteps coming down the hallway. Everyone stiffened as Hitler entered the room. He was wearing a tan suit with a swastika armband and gave me an enthusiastic greeting that caught me off guard. Frankly, it was a warmer greeting than I normally get from my parents, and it was accompanied by a slap in my back. I found the whole thing quite disarming.

I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit, because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as unfeasurer-like. That amused him to no end. And I'd realized I'd never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. There I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I'd seen. seen and hurt, 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.

Now it continues, but can I just point out, Hitler was known to be pretty charismatic. I mean, obviously he's a fucking horrible human being. That doesn't need to be said, but he built a movement off of his charisma. So everything that Larry David is hypothetically saying was basically true. This continues, he said he was starving, let us into the dining room where he gestured for me to sit next to him. Go-Ring immediately grabbed a slice of pumper-nickel, whereupon Hitler turned to me, gave me an eye-rolled, then whispered, watch. He'll be done with this entire meal before you've taken two bites. That one really got me. Go-Ring, with his mouthful,

asked what was so funny, and Hitler said, I was just telling him about the time my dog had diarrhea in the rice tag. Go-Ring remembered, how could he forget? He loved that story. Then Beaming Hitler said, hey, if I can kill Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals, I can certainly kill a dog. That perhaps got me the biggest laugh of the night. And believe me, there were plenty. Man, Larry David really stretches imagination here, but it wasn't just a one-way street with the fear of dominating the conversation. He was quite inquisitive and asked me

a lot of questions about myself. I told him I had just gone through a brutal breakup with my girlfriend because every time I went someplace without her, she was always insistent that I tell her everything I talked about. I can't stand having to remember every detail of every conversation. Hitler said he could relate. He hated that too. What am I? A secretary?

He advised me. It was best not to have any more contact with her or else I'd be right back where I started. Hitler giving Larry David girl advice. I did not think I'd be making this video today. He said, you'd be surprised. There are still feelings. I said, it must be easy for a dictator to go through a breakup.

Two hours later, the dinner was over, and the fewer escorted me to the door. Quote, I am so glad to have you, and I'm hoping I'm no longer the monster you thought I was. I must say, mind fear, I'm so thankful I came. And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night. Now, there's a little bit of nuance. There's obviously a lot of nuance in this that I want to talk about. but the central metaphor is not that Larry David is actually a Nazi or a Nazi collaborator. Do not get it wrong.

Larry David is not saying that Bill Maher actually wants to kill all Jews. He's satirizing the idea that charm and politeness can somehow neutralize very, very authoritarian behavior, like repeatedly outright, very brazen authoritarian behavior. So by citing the piece in 1939 Germany, he raises the stakes and says, what if your civil dialogue was the literal architect of genocide? And you know, that's the exact mistake that I think Bill Maher made when praising Donald Trump's graciousness after dining with him. A lot of people got mad at me in the last video

because I said, I don't think Bill Maher is a right-wing MAGA now. I just think that he's very, very naive and a narcissist. But yeah, he doesn't align with any MAGA points. He hates the mass deportations. He hates all of that. But saying that Trump was gracious, in my opinion, it's beyond the pale. It's legitimizing him.

It also mocks the illusion of the private Trump. So David's fictionalized Hitler is warm, funny, human, and relatable. And this point isn't about rehabilitating Hitler. It's about warning how easily charm can mask horror. I mean, narcissists can be charming. Hitler was certainly a narcissist. Trump has been doing the same thing for years, having dinners with rich, famous people,

and being very charming while publicly stoking division in cruelty and conspiracy. Think about this. this. This dude in 2012 spread birther conspiracy theories about Obama. Yet at Jimmy Carter's funeral, Obama and Trump were seen laughing and everybody was mad at that. It's because figures can be charming and then go out and be an absolute asshole. That's how it works. And I'm going to leave it there. Let me know what you guys think about Larry David's piece. If you want to help join the movement to become one of the fastest growing political YouTube channels, all you have to do is scroll down and hit that white subscribe button. You can see right here that the Adam Mockler channel,

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