This Oscar Winner Claims Donald Trump Called Her Trailer the Day Her Divorce Was Finalized

In 1998, Donald Trump was separated from his second wife, Marla Maples, and it sounds like he was very active in pursuing his next date. His target was an A-list actress. 

Emma Thompson shared this unexpected story at the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 8, according to Deadline, about the future president’s pursuit of her on a very notable day in her personal life. She was shooting the film, Primary Colors, when the phone in her trailer rang.

“It was Donald Trump. 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,” Thompson recalled.

The Oscar winner added, “And 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.’”

The entire encounter was baffling for Thompson because she was working on location, so getting her trailer’s landline phone number seemed like a very specific move — and then it dawned on her.

“I realized that on that day, my divorce decree had come through, and I bet he’s got people looking for suitable people he could take out on his arm,” she joked. “You know, a nice divorcée, that’s what he was looking for. And he found the number in my trailer. I mean, that’s stalking.” 

Thompson’s first husband was actor-director Kenneth Branagh, so Donald Trump would have had big shoes to fill if they had gone out on a date. The Love Actually star didn’t fulfill the politician’s wishes, though. 

“I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to tell. I could have changed the course of American history,” she concluded. 

While Thompson avoided a night out on the town with the president, Candice Bergen shared her dating tale with him back in the mid-1960s. They were both still in their teens, and she didn’t have anything positive to say about their date.

“I was 18, the first year of college,” Bergen told People in May 2018. “I was home by 9:00. I mean, it was really a dud.” She also remembered him wearing “a three-piece burgundy suit, and burgundy patent leather boots, and a burgundy limousine.” It sounds like Donald Trump went all-out with his coordinating fashion, but Bergen jokingly questioned her memory of that night. 

She continued, “I’ve started to mistrust my memory because it was such a brilliant description and I thought, ‘He can’t have been wearing that,’ and yet, he could.”

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