First Lady Emma Thompson? It almost could have been.
While speaking to Fredrik Skavlan on his talk show this week, actress Emma Thompson recounted a truly bizarre exchange she had with Donald Trump nearly 20 years ago, in which he invited her to come live with him at Trump Tower without ever having met her.
Thompson explained that it was shortly after her divorce from Kenneth Branagh. She was shooting 1998’s “Primary Colors” when she got an unsolicited call from Donald in her trailer.
“So I lift up the phone–‘Hi, it’s Donald Trump here,’” Thompson recalled. “And I said, ‘Really? Can I help you?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I just wondered if I could offer you some accommodation in one of my Trump Towers. They’re really comfortable.”
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The Washington Post notes that, based on the timeline, the come on would have taken place around the time Trump announced his split from his second wife, Marla Maples, since their divorce was later finalized in 1999.
Thompson said the call left her totally confused. After all, most people invite someone out for dinner or drinks as a first date, not offer them a place to live.
She continued, “‘Well, I think we would get along very well,” she remembers saying, uncomfortably. “Maybe have dinner sometime?”
“I didn’t know what to do with myself,” she said. “I just said, ‘I’ll get back to you.’ I’d never met him. I haven’t met him since.”
Watch her tell the story below.
DCguy
Good thing his arms weren’t longer, she would have gotten her p*ssy grabbed.
1EqualityUSA
Objectified.
Ellie533
Yuck Pooey Gross. I think I’d say yes and then change my number, make it unlisted and stand him up.
PS: Dear Graham Gremore: I in no way mean to attack the editor however the way one paragraph is written makes it sound as if Emma Thompson thought they would get along very well and she invited Trump to dinner rather than vice versa. It reads,
“She continued, “Well, I think we would get along very well” she remembers saying uncomfortably, “maybe have dinner sometime?”.
Not to be picayune but I doubt Emma would want there to be any misunderstanding as to her intentions, however inadvertently the mistake was made.
ivanw222
If it was anyone else I’d be shocked, but Trump…not so much.
1EqualityUSA
Is that a tic tac in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?