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Don Trump Asked Emma On a Date -Love? -NO Thanks YUK
Emma Thompson Reveals Don Trump Asked Her Out On a Date - Love? Actually NO Thanks YUK
Actor said Trump phoned her to make the offer on the day her divorce from Kenneth Branagh was confirmed in 1998
The Guardian 12 AUG 2025
Emma Thompson recounted the story of Donald Trumps approach in a talk at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland
Emma Thompson has accepted Academy Awards, Baftas and even a damehood over a glittering career, but there was one offer she had to turn down.
The actor says she once got asked out on a date by Donald Trump on the same day her divorce was confirmed.
Thompson said she was in her trailer filming Primary Colors in 1998, a political satire based on Bill Clintons presidential rise, when the phone rang.
It was Donald Trump, Thompson told an audience at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland, where she received the Leopard Club award for career achievement.
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.
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, thats very sweet. Thank you so much. I'll get back to you.
At the time, Trump had just split from his second wife, Marla Maples. Thompson, meanwhile, had just finalised her divorce from Kenneth Branagh.
Only later did she twig the timing. I realised my divorce decree had come through that day, she said. 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 joked. I mean, thats stalking. He's creepy
She joked she could have altered geopolitics if she'd accepted Trumps offer. I could have gone on a date with Donald Trump, and then I would have a story to tell, she said.
I could have changed the course of American history
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