Bill Maher concluded the Season 23 finale of Real Time by once again hitting back at Larry David and defending his dinner with president Donald Trump .

While going on a spiel about the pitfalls of ostracizing family members for voting MAGA, the TV personality pivoted to his personal experience. Maher previously shrugged off criticisms of his supper with the GOP leader, which fellow comic David satirized in an April New York Times essay titled “My Dinner with Hitler.” In response, Maher had called the op-ed “insulting,” noting shortly thereafter that “‘Nazi’ is a hard word to use with nuance.”

Maher lamented on the episode: “This is so childish, so purely emotional — the people who got all butt-hurt because I had dinner with him. You know, ’cause he’s Hitler. Except he’s not

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