The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” last season premiere pulled no punches when it got here to Donald Trump, ending with a fully-blown dig on the four-times-indicted former president.
The ultimate minutes of the “Atlanta” episode noticed Larry David’s eponymous character arrested for giving water to a buddy who was ready in line, on a swelteringly sizzling day, to vote. David’s kindhearted gesture violated Georgia’s state legislation that bans the handing out of meals and water to voters ready in line.
After being carted away by the cops, David’s mug shot appeared on display screen.
His scowl bore a putting resemblance to the picture that was taken of Trump following his arrest final August over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election lead to Georgia. Republican 2024 front-runner Trump has since reportedly raised thousands and thousands of {dollars} from placing the snap on marketing campaign merchandise.
Jeff Schaffer, the manager producer of “Curb,” stated David’s spoof mug shot second was truly created properly after filming on the season had wrapped.
“We have been all the time going to Atlanta due to that barbaric legislation that you could’t give anyone water or meals after they’re in line for voting. Once we have been speaking about tales, Larry stated, ‘This legislation is insane. I feel it’d be humorous if I received arrested for that,’” Schaffer informed The Wrap in an interview revealed Sunday.
Schaffer remembered telling David, “That is loopy. You’re in Atlanta, he’s in Atlanta, you simply received arrested. Let’s do that! We needed to wait till the strike was over to even have the ability to shoot Larry trying like our former Oompa Loompa. So it got here utterly afterwards.”
“It was truthfully a byproduct of us having to attend round through the strike,” he added. “It was good and now it seems like the entire thing was due to that and that was the very last thing that occurred.”
It’s not the primary time the HBO present has mocked Trump.
Within the first episode of the present’s tenth season, which aired in January 2020, the cantankerous David repeatedly wore considered one of Trump’s signature purple “Make America Nice Once more” caps — however solely after realizing it was a “folks repellent” and due to this fact a superb method of not having to speak to folks he didn’t need to.
Trump in April 2020 bizarrely shared one scene from that episode on X, then referred to as Twitter, during which David dons the cap to defuse tensions with an offended biker he’d simply minimize up on the highway.
“TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” the then-president captioned the video, apparently unaware it was mocking him and his MAGA motion.
“What in God’s title was that?” David later informed The New York Instances about Trump’s publish. “That was loopy, loopy. I don’t perceive it. I nonetheless don’t get it.”
Schaffer on the time agreed.
“This man is so silly, he doesn’t understand we’re making enjoyable of him,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s so humorous — once we have been taking pictures it, somebody on set was like, ‘When this comes out, he’s positively going to tweet about this.’ And I stated, ‘No, that’s loopy.’ After which he did, and he pinned it on the prime of his feed, and it simply stayed up there.”
“Larry and I talked about it, like, is there a response we do? However we determined to only let that orange-haired child sit in his personal messy diaper,” he added.