Larry David says thinking about a Donald Trump win is like 'contemplating your own death'

Larry David
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Donald Trump winning the White House this November would be pretty, pretty, pretty bad, said Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in a New York Times piece printed Saturday.

"The possibility of that is too horrifying to broach," David wrote in an email to the Times. "It's like contemplating your own death." Asked whether he ever does, in fact, contemplate his death, the famously neurotic comic answered, "I can't go there."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.