David Mamet didn’t come to play nice.
The legendary playwright—one of the few in Hollywood to openly support Donald Trump—sat down with Bill Maher on Club Random and wasted no time lighting the place up.
Right out of the gate, Maher made it clear he wasn’t happy with Mamet’s politics.
But Mamet wasn’t rattled.
In fact, he had a story locked and loaded that stopped Maher in his tracks.
“I was on your show when you said, are you implying that the election was stolen? And I was kind of iffy on it,” Mamet recalled.
Then came the twist.
“Next morning, 8:00, the phone rings. Woman on the phone says, ‘Mr. Mamet, what will you hold for the president?’ I said wait a second, Biden’s calling?—It’s Trump.”
“He says: ‘David, it’s Donald Trump.’ I say, oh, hello Mr. President, thank you for calling, to what do I owe the honor?”
“He said, ‘I saw you on Bill Maher yesterday. You were great.’ He said, ‘but you wussed out on the question of the stolen election.’ And then he talked to me for like 20 minutes abou…