Larry David had strong words when asked in a recent interview if he was “afraid about alienating” Trump supporters for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in his HBO show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Journalist Jimmy Traina shared a clip of David’s January interview with Michael Kay after President Trump shared a scene from “Curb” where David discovers that wearing the iconic “MAGA” hat is a great “people repellent.” He wears the hat around Los Angeles to avoid person-to-person contact.
Kay asks David: “There are people that wear the MAGA hat and like what the MAGA hat represents. Are you afraid about alienating them? They could be fans of the show?”
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David replies: “Alienate yourself. Go, go and alienate! You have my blessing. No, I could give a f–k.”
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The clip shared by the president on Tuesday features David driving a car and accidentally swerving into an angry biker.
“What the f— are you doing?!?” the biker asks.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you,” David responded behind a closed window.
The two of them pause, with the biker demanding the “Seinfeld” co-creator get out of his car. David then puts on the “MAGA” hat and apologizes again, which drastically changes the biker’s tune.
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“Just be more careful next time, OK?” the calmed biker said.
Larry David wearing a MAGA hat on HBO’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’
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“Will do, will do,” David responded.
The president captioned the video, tweeting “TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!”
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Critics piled on the president, accusing him of not understanding that the HBO series was mocking the use of the famous pro-Trump gear.
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” executive producer Jeff Schaffer described David’s use of the “MAGA” hat to The Hollywood Reporter last month.
“Larry in the hat is such a dissonant image. You realized when he put it on that you just never see a person in a MAGA hat in Los Angeles. It’s like spotting a double rainbow of intolerance,” Schaffer quipped.
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