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.
According to a new poll conducted by J.L. Partners in collaboration with the Daily Mail, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from March 31 to April 3, Trump’s support rating increased even after sweeping tariffs were imposed on dozens of trading partners on April 2.
The study indicated that Trump’s approval rating increased to 53 percent, a four-point improvement from last week’s poll, when it was 49 percent. The Daily Mail termed the outcome as “surprising” considering the intense pressure and stock market crash that occurred on Thursday and Friday.
Trump’s favorability rating among voters aged 18 to 29 has improved by an amazing 13 points since March 7.
The study implies Trump is building on the tremendous support he earned from the group in the November presidential election, when voters aged 18 to 29 switched 10 points in Trump’s favor after heavily supporting Joe Biden in 2020.
The president’s support rating increased by six percentage points among registered Democrats and independents, according to the study. The president’s favorability among black voters has increased by 17 points since last week’s survey.
Nearly 100 days into his presidency, American employers and job board leaders have given Trump a very favorable report card, saying they believe the economy “can win now,” even though, as they note, it hasn’t “started to win yet.”
“I would give President Trump, right now, a pretty solid B+,” FIG Strategy & Consulting founder, author and Freedom Economy Index (FEI) respondent TaChelle Lawson told Fox News Digital.
“He came in with a very clear plan, and that was focusing on economics. He’s definitely putting business first, trimming the fat. That’s something that small business owners, business operators understand and respect. I think that it’s clear that his focus is on American business,” she added. “I do, however, think that the messaging could use a little bit of work.”
Lawson is one of over 50,000 small business owners who took part in the latest quarterly survey by RedBalloon and PublicSquare. The survey revealed that more than two-thirds of respondents now expect the economy to experience either “slow” or “robust” growth throughout the year—a complete turnaround from the previously negative outlook, Fox Business reported.
“What we’re seeing right now is we have a very sick economy, and it needs some very strong medicine. And if it gets that medicine, we all feel like we have a very strong economy that will win and will actually be a huge blessing to the entire world,” RedBalloon CEO Andrew Crapuchettes also told Fox.
“Because when the U.S. economy is strong, when small businesses in the U.S. economy are strong, we feel like we can have a disproportionate and positive impact on the entire planet,” he continued. “There’s a lot of good work that’s being done, but that work still needs to be done for the economy to actually get better.”
“These small businesses are now feeling like we’re coming up on the 100-day mark of Trump’s presidency. They love the fact that one of the things that President Trump and this administration more broadly is tackling is the overregulation, the red tape seeded in bureaucracy that seeks to stifle business growth,” PublicSquare CEO Michael Seifert added.
