CNN’s conservative voice Scott Jennings continued to educate the left after trying to cancel Bill Maher for attending the Trump dinner. They quoted a satirical New York Times op-ed piece by the washed-up comedian Larry David titled “My Dinner with Adolf.”
“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,” it reads.
“No one I knew encouraged me to go. ‘He’s Hitler. He’s a monster.’ But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere,” it continues. “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.”
However, Jennings dismantled the satirical piece, which fell flat in its attempt to communicate, by creating false comparisons between Trump and Hitler.
“He’s totally in the right to do it and I loved his monologue. Even though I disagree with most everything he believes politically, he was right to do this and he was right to speak out about it, but this isn’t about that dinner,” Jennings stated.
“It’s about the next one because this is the modern Left. It’s an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again. It’s to silence yourselves or we’ll do it for you. That’s the purpose of this op-ed, so that the next comedian or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump. This is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders.”
Jennings accurately noted that the left thrives on division and fear. Trump is not the most hated man, except by a minority of Democrats who wish to scare everyone into joining them into hating him.
According to Jennings, any journalist interested in attending any subsequent Trump dinner to document the alleged Trump’s repulsiveness will be scared to do so, ensuring that only the existing left’s narrative about him stands.
If anything, their tactics resemble those of Hitler, whose Nazi ideology was propagated by the minority and spread through fear and hatred of the Jews.
But David went too far by directly comparing Trump to Hitler. Even the left’s mouthpieces like Tandem agreed that the Hitler narrative was “a little” far-fetched.
For example, David’s narration of Hitler invading countries and committing “unspeakable crimes against humanity” does not fit well with Trump. Ironically, he’s one of the few people to stand against the invasion of Iraq, the killing of innocent civilians by drones, and the first to stop the endless wars in the Middle East, in which America was involved.
“Now, I understand it’s a little weird to talk about Hitler. I agree with that. I think it’s a little weird to talk about Hitler,” Tandem said.
Nonetheless, the false equivalence excels at creating fear, forcing Americans to choose between two uneasy choices: either the left’s radical agenda or “Trump the monster.”
Meanwhile, the left is still reeling from Maher’s visit to Trump, as he documented quite the opposite of what he and many others have been led to believe.
“I voted for Obama, I voted for Clinton, but the idea that I could talk to them as freely as I felt this conversation was going is emblematic, to me, of why Democrats lose elections,” Maher told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on his Club Random podcast.
“I know it’s so weird to say that about Donald Trump, who I’ve said a jillion times is, you know, a whiny little b**ch,” Maher admitted. “But this was about getting past that and maybe seeing that if we met in person, we don’t hate each other as much. And we don’t.”
Undoubtedly, the Trump dinner changed Maher’s perspective—a shift the left fears might ripple through the entire media establishment, ultimately isolating them. As Jennings noted, the only way to stop the trend is by discouraging other journalists from interacting with Trump.
