Emma Thompson reveals Donald Trump once asked her on a date: “I mean, that’s stalking”
In another universe, Emma Thompson is the current First Lady of the USA. She has revealed that Donald Trump once asked her out on a date.
Addressing an audience at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland, the Love Actually actor recounted the wild story. It was 1998, and Thompson was in her trailer while on set for Primary Colors, when the phone rang.
“It was Donald Trump,” she recalled incredulously. “He said: ‘Hello, this is Donald Trump.’ I thought it was a joke and asked: ‘How can I help you?’ Maybe he needed directions from someone.”
She continued: “Then he said: ‘I’d love you to come and stay at one of my beautiful places. Maybe we could have dinner.’ I said: ‘Well, that’s very sweet. Thank you so much. I’ll get back to you.’”
Both Thompson and Trump were single at the time. The President had just split from his second wife, Marla Maples, while Thompson’s divorce from Kenneth Branagh had just been confirmed that very day.
She noted this oddity, adding, “I realised my divorce decree had come through that day. I bet he’s got people looking for a nice divorcee to take out on his arm. And he found the number in my trailer,” she mused. “I mean, that’s stalking.”
Thompson, a lifelong Labour supporter who is certainly not a Trump fan, joked, “I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to tell,” she said
Trump recently turned his eye elsewhere. He backed a Sydney Sweeney American Eagle advert after it emerged that Sweeney is a registered Republican voter, as he wrote on his Truth Social platform on August 4th: “Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the ‘HOTTEST’ ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying off the shelves.’ Go get ’em Sydney!”
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