Donald Trump claimed that Joan Rivers voted for him in 2016, regardless of the comic having died two years earlier.
The previous US president and just lately convicted felon was interviewed by Selection editor Ramin Setoodeh final November for a brand new ebook about his time internet hosting The Apprentice, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America By the Wanting Glass, which is about to be revealed on June 18.
Within the ebook, Trump discusses Rivers, who received the second season of Movie star Apprentice in 2009.
“I assumed she might need been a Republican,” Trump mentioned. “I do know one factor: she voted for me, in keeping with what she mentioned.”
This declare is inconceivable as Trump first stood for election on November 8, 2016. Rivers died on September 4, 2014 on the age of 81.
Within the month earlier than that election, Trump claimed to Fox Information’s Sean Hannity that he feared voter fraud utilizing useless voters would swing the election for his opponent. “You will have 1.8 million people who find themselves useless, who’re registered to vote, and a few of them completely vote,” mentioned Trump. “Now, inform me how they try this.” Trump’s claims had been refuted.
Trump additionally recalled Rivers’s response after he fired her daughter, Melissa, who competed on the identical season of Movie star Apprentice.
“Joan was so indignant,” mentioned Trump. “She went loopy after I fired the daughter.”
“Joan beloved Melissa greater than something she’s ever beloved earlier than. She thought Melissa was the end-all, and he or she went completely loopy in protection of her daughter. Oh, they had been each yelling. It was nice TV. However perhaps Joan had extra of a proper to be yelling.”
Elsewhere within the ebook, Trump described Taylor Swift as “unusually lovely” however “liberal”.
Requested his opinion of the pop celebrity, Trump replied: “She’s acquired a fantastic star high quality. She actually does.”
He continued: “I feel she’s lovely – very lovely! I discover her very lovely. I feel she’s liberal. She in all probability doesn’t like Trump. I hear she’s very proficient. I feel she’s very lovely, truly – unusually lovely!”
Requested particularly what he thinks of her music, Trump admitted: “Don’t realize it effectively.”
He went on to query whether or not the pop celebrity actually is politically liberal, asking: “She is liberal, or is that simply an act? She’s legitimately liberal? It’s not an act? It surprises me {that a} nation star may be profitable being liberal.”
When Setoodeh identified that Swift is not purely a rustic artist, Trump responded: “Garth Brooks is liberal. Clarify that! How does it occur? However he’s liberal. It’s a type of issues…”
