Larry David on Barack Obama’s ‘Perfect’ Comedic Timing in New HBO Show and Donald Trump’s White House UFC Fight: ‘I Was Embarrassed to Be an American’

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

Senior Editor, Culture and Events

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Larry David is celebrating the United States’ 250th birthday with his new HBO show, “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America,” but he wasn’t feeling too patriotic when President Donald Trump marked the nation’s milestone anniversary with a UFC fight at the White House.

“It was a travesty,” David told me Tuesday night at the “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness” premiere in Hollywood. “What else can you say about it? It was embarrassing. I was embarrassed to be an American.”

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