David Mamet Brawls With Bill Maher Over ‘Stolen’ Elections, Biden, Men in Women’s Sports: ‘You’re Full of Sh*t’Warner Todd Huston 2 Jun 2025
Iconoclast playwright David Mamet ripped HBO TV host and podcaster Bill Maher in a no holds barred discussion on politics, the 2020 elections, Joe Biden, women in sports, and more.
Joining Maher on his Club Random podcast, Mamet, who has steadily veered to the political right over the last decade or so and has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, was not prepared to let Maher slide by and in many cases the dramatist too k the fight right to Maher’s doorstep.
The pair got right to their opposition early in the podcast when Maher claimed that the so-called “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2020, started because Trump refused to concede the election to Joe Biden. Maher said that Trump ” inspired people to riot, Mamet asked how he did that, and Maher replied, “By not conceding the election.”
“Oh, come on!” the Glen Gary-Glen Ross writer retorted. “So, he didn’t say the words ‘I concede’ and that meant people rioted?”
“It was about people who did not hear their leader say, as every other leader in this country has said after an election, ‘Okay, I lost. We welcome the new guy. We had disagreements, but now we’re all Americans,'” Maher exclaimed. “When Obama took over, George Bush stood by next to him and he said, ‘We want you to succeed, because when you succeed…’ Trump didn’t do any of that.”
“Okay. So what?” Mamet asked.
“So what? It inspires half the country to not accept the basic democratic principle that we have elections, and when you lose, you go away and then you become the loyal opposition. They’re not — they don’t see themselves as the loyal oposition…,” Maher replied.
“Look, you, like me, have built a career out of nothing except talent and a little bit a luck and a lot of hard work,” Mamert said. “But you’re full of sh*t. What I don’t understand, when you say that he did not say the words ‘I concede’ caused half the country — which you just said — to riot.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO2jaIu2o6Y&ab_channel=ClubRandomPodcastmore
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