A British interviewer recounted an incident involving Donald Trump long before he was elected president, which she now finds hilarious.
Ruby Wax is an American-born comedian who, at 70, has long been a fixture on the BBC as a host of several programs. And while she’s not widely known outside the UK, she got tossed off the plane of then-billionaire real estate developer Trump in the 1990s after she laughed at him when he said he wanted to be president.
Wax recalled the story during an appearance on Kate Garraway’s ITV chat program.
The BBC fixture said that during pre-interview meals, which were a must with her, the interviewee would mention “really personal things” to her that she would later not bring up during the formal interview.
But that isn’t quite the way things worked out with Trump, according to Wax.
“Donald — you know, when a man treats you like an idiot, you kind of become an idiot,” Wax explained. “Because he knows females because he just has sex with them. But he couldn’t figure me out. He really was so fierce and so vicious. He said, ‘You’re angry with a smile.’ So he got me — because I was backed into a corner.”
“He did say, ‘I want to be the next president of the United States,’ and I thought it was a joke,” she continued. “I thought, ‘What a sense of humor this guy has.’ So I started laughing.’ And he said, ‘That’s it, I want her off the flight.’”
“So we only got to 33,000 feet, and we went straight back down again. It’s not a good show,” she added (see video below).
Wax told the story to Garraway and Charlotte Hawkins on “Good Morning Britain,” saying that Trump “wouldn’t speak” after she laughed in his face about his presidential ambitions.
“So my crew and I landed and we were stuck in Arkansas with nowhere to go,” she noted, according to the U.K.Mirror. “We ended up finding him in Nebraska judging a Miss Nebraska contest.”
This comes as President Trump’s approval rating has risen to near-record levels, despite several days of outrage from Democrats, establishment Republicans, and mainstream media outlets over the president’s ambitious trade changes.
