David's fictional meeting with Adolf Hitler echoes many of the points that Maher has made in the days since he dined with Trump. Maher, a crochety liberal-leaning comic who has grown more crochety and less liberal as societal norms have passed him by, marvelled at the fact that he could make the commander-in-chief laugh.

Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David skewered comedian Bill Maher’s recent meal with President Donald Trump in a satirical essay in The New York Times this week.