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Larry David Epically Trolls Bill Maher's Dinner With Trump In Satirical 'My Dinner With Adolf' Essay
Apr 23, 2025
Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Larry David had social media users cackling after he penned a satirical essay for the New York Times about an imagined dinner with Adolf Hitler to jab comedian Bill Maher over Maher's recent White House dinner with President Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, Maher said on his show that Trump was “gracious and measured" during their late March meeting. Maher, who has a history of criticizing Trump, stressed that he did not turn “MAGA” and “to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to” do so.
He added:
“Just for starters, he laughs. I’ve never seen him laugh in public, but he does, including to himself, and it’s not fake, believe me. As a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.
“I don’t remember what we were talking about, but it must’ve been something with the 2020 election. Because I know he distinctly used the word ‘lost.’ And I said, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that.’ He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
Now David is using satire to criticize Maher's fawning statements in his essay, titled "My Dinner with Adolf," a spoof of My Dinner with André, the 1981 classic directed by Louis Malle and written by and starring André Gregory and Wallace Shawn, who play fictionalized versions of themselves engaged in a wide-ranging conversation over dinner at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.
He wrote, in part:
“I had 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. 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.”
“I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human."
"Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — 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.”
After spending two hours in conversation over a meal, the fictitious guest prepares to leave the Chancellery and offers his final reflection:
“Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other. And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night."
As far as many were concerned, David was spot on.
David has made no secret of how he feels about Trump, whom he has criticized for attacking the country's democratic institutions.
Last year, David condemned Trump's lies about the 2020 election results, saying Trump's behavior is akin to a "sociopath":
"You can’t go a day without thinking about what he’s done to this country because he’s such a little baby that he’s thrown 250 years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results of the ― I mean, it’s so crazy, he’s such a sociopath, he’s so insane, he just couldn’t admit to losing."
"And we know he lost. He knows he lost. And look how he’s fooled everybody, he’s convinced all these people that he didn’t lose."
"He’s such a sick man. He’s so sick.”
David has previously taken aim at Trump on Curb Your Enthusiasm, particularly when he incorporated Trump's infamous Fulton County mugshot into the premiere of the long-running HBO show's final season.
Playing off that, in the concluding moments of Curb's "Atlanta" episode, David's eponymous character was arrested for providing water to a friend waiting in line to vote on an extremely hot day. David's well-intentioned act ran afoul of Georgia's state law prohibiting the distribution of food or water to voters in line.
As the character was taken away by the police, his mugshot appeared on screen. Strikingly, his scowl closely resembled the photo of Trump taken after the former president's arrest in August 2023.
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Rob Lowe Easter Bunny Fail
Apr 23, 2025
Rob Lowe just proved he's willing to help out his friends in whatever way he can—even if that means dressing up as the Easter Bunny.
Lowe is known for many roles—Sodapop from The Outsiders, Sam from The West Wing, and more recently, he made a memorable appearance as the Easter Bunny for Chris Pratt’s kids.
On Easter Sunday, Pratt and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, invited Lowe to join in some egg-hunting fun that included dressing up the other “Chris” from Parks and Rec in a large, white bunny costume with a matching blue blazer and a plaid bowtie.
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Schwarzenegger shared a video on Instagram with the caption:
“Easter bunny got real method this year ! Happy Easter!”
She captured the moment as Pratt assisted Lowe in pulling on the festive costume that was somewhat oversized for the actor’s 5’10’’ frame. Once Lowe fully got into character, he went to hoppin’ as Pratt and Schwarzenegger’s children reacted like any kids witnessing a human-sized rabbit—by screaming and crying in terror.
As Lowe scattered colorful eggs around the lawn in plain sight, Schwarznegger sarcastically remarked:
“Wow, this looks like a hard easter hunt…”
Catch the kids’ reaction in the background of the video below:
The kids could be heard shrieking and crying while Easter Bunny Lowe shook his little Peter Cottontail and plopped eggs all around the Pratt and Schwarzenegger's backyard. Clearly realizing that the surprise wasn't going well, Lowe eventually dumped the remaining eggs in one clump and hightailed it (or should we say, “cottontails” it) up the stairs and away from the unimpressed kids.
Schwarzenegger couldn't help but comment:
“He’s gonna be sweating… for sure.”
The real and sweaty Rob Lowe appeared moments later at brunch after missing the Easter Bunny’s cameo, saying: “I just hopped on over when I heard he was here.”
Not missing a beat, Pratt informed Lowe that he missed him. Very convenient timing, Rob.
Overall, this was a cute, albeit possibly traumatic, moment that the kids, Lowe, and Parks and Rec fans are sure not to forget:
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Lowe’s family even commented on the fun:
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Lowe’s brief stint as the Easter Bunny comes a week after being hilariously confused for John Stamos during a Hollywood Bus Tour.
Something that his fans are still teasing him about:
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Another moment that Lowe captured on his Instagram below:
“Dude, you gotta get better at your job,” Lowe playfully scolded the tour guide, who got a kick at the actor’s latest antics and remarked back:
"Thank you for cool energy, man."
As for his friendship with Chris Pratt, Rob Lowe has long been friends with his Parks and Rec costar, with Pratt playing Andy Dwyer, and Lowe joining as Chris Traeger at the end of season two. Nearly a decade since the show ended, the two friends have been seen golfing, crashing press junkets, and spending time with each other’s families.
Lowe currently stars as Owen Strand in Fox’s 9-1-1 spinoff of 9-1-1 Lone Star.
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Kristi Noem's Purse Was Stolen At A D.C. Restaurant—And Everyone's Thinking The Same Thing
Apr 23, 2025
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was widely mocked after a man reportedly stole her purse, which contained her government ID, passport, medication, and around $3,000 in cash, on Easter Sunday as she enjoyed a meal with her family—all while she was being protected by the Secret Service.
The Secret Service reviewed surveillance footage from Capital Burger and saw an unidentified white male in a medical mask steal Noem’s bag and exit the restaurant, a law enforcement source said. An investigation is now underway to track any attempted use of her financial accounts.
The Secret Service referred questions to the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS spokesperson confirmed the theft and said the large amount of cash in the bag was meant to cover dinner, activities, and Easter gifts for Noem’s visiting family, including her children and grandchildren.
It sure says something that the person in charge of national security can't even secure her own belongings—which others were only keen to point out.
A huge part of security is situational awareness and not taking idiotic risks that set you up for catastrophic failures. She gets an F on both.
— Philly Leotardo (@dave876.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Idk about you….. but I feel so much safer knowing she’s geared-up alongside ICE and can’t even guard her own f’n purse in a lunch line.
— Gayle (@gskh1237.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
👍😁 How secure do the US people feel when the Homeland Security Secretary can’t secure her own purse?
— susieq6shooter.bsky.social (@susieq6shooter.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Seriously?!?! The director of Homeland Security can't secure her own purse. This is where we are.
— Alan Smithee DGA (@alansmitheedga.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If the theft of Noem's purse makes you feel less safe with the nation's security apparatus in her hands, just wait until we tell you about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth getting in trouble—again—for sending Yemen war plans in a Signal chat that included his wife and brother.
This is fine, guys. Totally fine.
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Legal Loopholes That Feel Still Illegal When You Use Them
Apr 23, 2025
A modern loophole is defined as "an ambiguity or inadequacy in the law or a set of rules." Historically it meant a "small opening through which small arms may be fired" or a "similar opening to admit light and air or to permit observation."
So how did we get from point A to point B?
In 1591, the first figurative use of loophole—the modern definition—was recorded in print as an "opening that allows one to avoid a rule, law, or obligation." Figurative loopholes are usually not well known, so perhaps that's why the term for a narrow opening was chosen for this alternate meaning.
But who knows for sure? English evolved with a lot of outside influences then evolved further with cultural changes.
The use of the term loophole has fallen off in the digital age to be replaced by "hack" or "life hack."
Reddit user CryptographerFinal56 asked:
"What's a perfectly legal loophole that feels completely illegal when you use it?"
Freebies
"Yesterday I went to the pharmacy at a place known for its mile-long receipts filled with coupons."
"One coupon was for $2 off any item, so I got a $2 bottle of water and they just let me take it for free."
"Felt amazing."
~ themonicastone
Price Matching
"There’s a Tractor Supply (the store) online hack, where you can search any store in the US on the website, find your item cheaper than your local store."
"Add it to cart and then right before you pay, change the pickup location to your local store. The price stays the same as the cheaper store."
"I saved a ton of money on stall mats for my home gym this way."
~ 7empestSpiralout
Doesn't Seem Right
"Taking a left (instead of right) on red from a one way street to a one way street."
"Legal in Boston."
~ Gammondorf
Merch Protection
"I saw a concert at a venue that didn't let you leave and re-enter once you were inside. I was telling the merch guy I wanted to buy a poster, but not have to hold it all night.
"He said, 'Just say you have asthma and you need your inhaler, if it's a medical issue they're not allowed to ask you any questions'."
"I was hesitant because I really didn't want to not get let back in, and he was like, 'C'mon, come with me'."
"He goes to the door, tells security, 'Hey, this kid has asthma, he needs to go get his inhaler'."
"I took off running, not even thinking about the connection, brought the poster back to my car, walked back to the side entrance, they stopped me and I was like, 'I was just in there!' and they were like, 'Eh, let him go'."
"I actually still feel a little guilty about it, but it definitely worked! Gave the merch guy a fist bump."
~ wossquee
Technically True
"Student discount on Apple.com for my, uh, student in kindergarten."
"The Mac MegaPro M6 Extreme with 800TB of RAM, 9 Nvidia ZTX video cards, and 600 PB of storage is for my little Kendall, kid's a genius."
~ PabloMesbah-Yamamoto
"Yes, I need this brand new M2 Mac Mini for my homeschooled child."
"Oh what’s that? You don’t need any paperwork proving the homeschooling or even the child’s existence? Coolsies."
~ connorgrs
Not Theft, But...
"Gettin' a free sandwich every time I do the 2-minute fast food receipt review, even on my free sandwich. I know what they pay for ingredients and my finished meal costs less."
"Am I 'working' for my $3 discount? Is my review really worth that? Or are the masses subsidizing my meal and the system would collapse if everyone were as stingy as me?"
"Who knows. Who cares? I feel like I've killed a Tamagotchi. That's not animal cruelty, this ain't theft, it just don't feel like it's supposed to be this way."
~ Jsenss
Cake For Breakfast
"I can buy birthday cake even when it's not my birthday."
~ Appropriate-Trier
"My family has been buying cakes from a specific place for ages, usually for birthdays."
"One day after I got my driver's license I realized I could simply go there and buy a cake. Got quite a few 'surprise' cakes."
~ noTHOTS_noOPPS
Obeying Traffic Laws
"UK here. Driving in the bus lane when it's not bus lane time."
"The road near me gives a whole lane over to buses from 16:00-18-00."
"I drive home from work at about 15:45 in the 'bus lane', past miles of queuing traffic."
~ thecauseoftheproblem
Why We Don't Tax The Rich
"Incorporating your business in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes."
~ friendly-sam
"Just remember, tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion is illegal."
~ waterloograd
Backdoor Roth IRAs
"Backdoor Roth IRAs are strange to me."
~ Esk__
"I work in the industry. This is one that trips up advisors as well as customers."
"They think it’s written in the IRS code, but it isn’t. It’s just an after-tax IRA contribution and immediate conversion to Roth."
"Don’t forget to do the conversion though!"
"If you end up leaving it in the Traditional IRA, and later fund the traditional IRA with tax-deductible contributions, the after tax portion becomes nearly impossible to get out tax-efficiently."
~ tiplewis
Sticking It To The Man
"Paying with debit on purchases around 25 cents or so just so places like Walmart will lose money on the transaction."
~ datNorseman
Is It Or Isn't It?
"The extremely murky legal waters of downloading ROMs because you 'have the discs'."
~ Prestigious-Part-697
"Pirating mid 2000s games speaks to the millennial IT soul."
~ mechajlaw
The Size Of The Refund
"DoorDash (& other delivery) would mess up my order but if an entire item wasn't missing, they'd do a tiny partial refund even though I didn't receive the food I ordered. Forcing me to pay for food I didn't order."
"Example: I could order a cheeseburger with onion rings, bacon, BBQ sauce and just receive a plain cheeseburger, and they'd say since it was just missing a few toppings I'd only get a couple bucks back. Basically forcing me to pay full price for an item I didn't even ask for."
"Another example: ordering a pizza with pepperoni and jalapenos, having it arrive with only jalapenos. I'd get a $2.50 refund for a missing topping and be stuck with a pizza I didn't order."
"Loophole: in the examples above, rather than say my bacon cheeseburger was missing toppings, I'd just say the entire item was missing. I'd tell them I received a burger, but not the burger I ordered, which isn't lying."
"My bacon cheeseburger was completely missing, and I got someone else's burger instead. Same with the pizza—it wasn't just missing a topping, I ordered one pizza and got something completely different."
"It's a different way to frame it, but it isn't dishonest, and it's important because if you got the wrong item, it's a full refund. If an item was prepared incorrectly, you get hardly anything except food you didn't ask for."
~ dsmcdona
Dog Eat Dog
"There is a gas station chain in Pennsylvania that had 2 for $1 hot dogs for a long time. At one point, they put ordering screens at the gas pumps and you got $1 off if you ordered there."
"There was no rule about having to actually be getting gas, so you could pull up there, order your 2 for $1 hot dogs, get $1 off for ordering at the pump, go in, and get your 2 free hot dogs."
"Eventually they changed to make it a free fountain drink if you ordered something else outside which is still nice, but not as one sided."
~ dkviper11
Lumber Exchange
"I install windows and trim them out. My work throws out scrap boards that are too short to fit on our very limited lumber rack."
"I pull them from the dumpster and bring them home because free wood is free wood. When we are working in my area, I trim the window from what I have in my garage."
"My company reimburses me in linear feet. This is how I get free full length boards."
"To clarify:"
"-We don’t have the space to store a lot of boards, so if we have a say 4’ cutoff it generally goes in the dumpster unless someone wants it. Someone always takes those for a shelf or something or for a job the next day that we know we can use it for."
"-I want it, because I have use for 4’ boards."
"-it’s encouraged for us to take home cut offs, but not full 16’ or 8’ boards. We save those."
"-it’s unfortunate we can’t store those cuttoffs because they are often all we need. I bring those back to the worksite from home when we need them."
-my boss says that once it hits the dumpster it’s mine. If I supply 4 4’ boards from my own house, I’m 'owed' 16 linear feat. I take home a full 16 footer because I’m swimming in scraps, but sometimes need full boards."
"-my boss is aware this is dysfunctional as f*ck. We are working on improving our lumber storage."
~ youvegotnail
Is there a loophole or life hack you use that feels wrong?
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Trump Dragged For Saying He's 'Looking Forward' To Attending Pope Francis' Funeral
Apr 22, 2025
On Monday, the world learned that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, had died at age 88.
On that same day, Republican President Donald Trump shared he'd be going go the social event of the year. Or at least his announcement made it seem so.
On Truth Social, Trump posted.
"Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there!"
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For once, the capitalization was only in appropriate places, everything was spelled correctly, and the grammar was impeccable, although the message was somewhat ghoulish.
Leading many to think Trump didn't write the Truth Social post—someone else in his administration did.
The funeral will be Trump's first foreign trip of his second presidential administration.
Regardless of the post's author, people were disturbed by the enthusiasm for seeing an 88-year-old man lying in state followed by the thrill of his funeral.
I’m sure Trump won’t try to make the Pope’s funeral all about himself.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I guess we all know who the Pope's funeral will be all about now.
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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Dear God. Everyone knows Pope Francis had little love for Trump—he wouldn’t want him anywhere near his funeral. But in true Trump fashion, he makes it all about him. Also… who the hell looks forward to a funeral? Seriously. 🤷♂️
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— Chris D. Jackson (@chrisdjackson.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Trump heading to Rome for pope’s funeral. Hoping it’s a one way trip.
— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Trump is looking forward to a funeral. Too bad it’s the wrong one.
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— Outspoken™️ (@out5p0ken.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Donald Trump is going to the Pope's funeral. If God was ever going to strike anybody down it would be because they were being an asshole at the Pope's funeral. One bolt of lightning inside a Cathedral, 8 billion believers. Just saying.
— BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The pontiff served for 12 years—from 2013–2025—and recorded many firsts for a pope.
Pope Francis—named Jorge Mario Bergoglio before taking Holy Orders—was the first Jesuit, the first Latin American, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope born or raised outside of Europe since the 8th-century.
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