By Lee Moran, HuffPost | Carly Simon revealed she once turned down an invite from Donald Trump to visit his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, because she “thought he was kind of repulsive.”
In an interview with Britain’s Guardian newspaper published Thursday, the singer-songwriter said she met Trump during a luncheon in New York for the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007. She said Trump ignored her until she spent time in Bhutto’s bedroom talking with the leader about her music.
“When I went out of the bedroom, obviously I had all of a sudden become important through the eyes of Donald Trump,” said Simon. She described Trump as “very anxious to meet me” and “all over me like ugly on an ape.” He dangled an invitation to his resort, she said.
She spurned the request of the then-businessman, however, because she “thought he was kind of repulsive.”
In the interview, Simon also talked about her 1972 hit song “You’re So Vain” (which she reworked into an anti-Trump anthem ahead of the 2016 election).
Read the shortened interview here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/carly-simon-donald-trump-interview.html
Read the whole interview here:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/31/carly-simon-on-turning-down-donald-trump-i-thought-he-was-kind-of-repulsive
By David Smith | The singer-songwriter talks candidly about her friendship with Jackie Onassis, being humiliated by Harvey Weinstein and why she has no time for the US president
https://www.huffpost.com/topic/carly-simon