Former Mad Men star Jon Hamm recounted the uncomfortable first time he met Donald Trump – in 2015 at a Saturday Night Live after party.
The interaction, he told The New York Times, was ‘weird’ because he felt like the would-be-president was trying to ‘intimidate him’.
The 46-year-old actor joked that Trump tried to act like the ‘alpha’ saying: ‘I’m as alpha as you. Let’s go. You’re not going to chest-bump me.’
After reading the interview, Donald Trump Jr took it upon himself to mock the actor’s attempt at bravado.
‘Pro tip: If you have to tell others you’re an alpha… you’re not,’ the president’s oldest son wrote on Twitter.
Jon Hamm recounted an interaction with the President in which he said Trump tried to ‘intimidate him,’ saying he wasn’t fooled by the ‘alpha male’ act
On Friday morning Donald Trump Jr hit out at the actor over the interview – writing ‘if you have to tell others you’re an alpha… you’re not’
Hamm told the Times that he met Trump at a SNL after party in 2015- after the then-presidential candidate hosted the popular television show.
The meeting, he said, happened by chance when the two bumped into each other at the party.
‘He was with Bill O’Reilly,’ Hamm explained.
‘They’re both tall dudes. And I’m a tall dude. And they both do that tall-dude thing, which is try to intimidate you. And it doesn’t work on me.
‘I’m like, “I’m as alpha as you. Let’s go. You’re not going to chest-bump me.”‘
The actor didn’t say what he talked to Trump and O’Reilly about, or even if they exchanged any words at all, but did say the encounter made him so uncomfortable that he left the party uncharacteristically early.
‘It was a very weird night. It was the shortest I’ve ever stayed at an ‘SNL’ after-party.’
Hamm told the Times that he met Trump at a Saturday Night Live after party in 2015- after the then-presidential candidate hosted the popular television show. Trump is pictured during his monologue in November 2015 when he hosted SNL
Hamm has previously spoken out against Trump’s presidency, and even helped his opponent Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
Earlier this year he made an appearance in a video urging people to support Planned Parenthood.
He has also publicly denounced the President’s proposed health care bill.
Since Trump was elected in late November, SNL has taken weekly shots at Trump and members of his administration – which he has denounced on Twitter as ‘unfunny.’