Larry David: White House UFC event made him ’embarrassed to be an American’

“Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David on Tuesday said the “UFC Freedom 250” event on the White House lawn last week made him “embarrassed to be an American.”

David spoke with Variety about the fights while at the premiere of his sketch HBO series “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America.” He told the outlet that the event was “a travesty.”

“What else can you say about it?” he continued. “It was embarrassing, you know? I was embarrassed to be an American, yeah.”

David has never held back his criticism of President Trump. Last year, he satirized comedian Bill Maher’s dinner with Trump at the White House in a New York Times guest essay titled “My Dinner with Adolf.” Maher, who was raised Catholic but whose mother was Jewish, blasted the story as “insulting” to Holocaust victims. David is also Jewish.

He also lampooned Trump in his acclaimed HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” mocking red MAGA hats and replicating Trump’s Fulton County, Ga., jail mugshot taken in 2023.

David developed his latest series with the help of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground. The series cracks jokes at pivotal points in U.S. history and stars a wide-ranging cast of comedy actors, including Bill Hader, JB Smoove, Sean Hayes and Jerry Seinfeld.

The 44th president also makes an appearance with David in one of the sketches. David called the former president’s comic timing “perfect.”

“He’s really good at ad-libbing,” he told Variety, but later quipped when asked if Obama could win an Emmy for acting: “I wouldn’t go that far.”

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