Donald Trump had a big, pathetic crush on Debra Messing, and that’s why her Twitter hate hurt him so badly—at least, that’s one of the headlines out of , by co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. from the book (which is out today) in which Trump expressed betrayal that Messing came after him on Twitter when she used to be so nice to him in the good ol’ NBC days. In the excerpt, the former president recalled meeting Messing at his first-ever NBC Upfronts presentation (where the network pitches the TV season to advertisers).
“She came up to me with her beautiful red hair,” he told Setoodeh, who reports that Trump “[paused] on this detail a beat too long.” In Trump’s memory, Messing gushed that he was “saving the network, and you’re saving my show.” Trump was starstruck because “I’ve been watching her” on , and here was a beautiful celebrity being “so thankful” to him.
“And I’m saying, ‘She’d do anything for me,’” he reflected, his words “lathered with a suggestive grease, similar to” the infamous , Setoodeh writes. Trump simply could not square that someone who was “so effusive” in her gratitude would turn on him when he entered politics. (“She probably wouldn’t even admit it” today, he asserted: “She came up to me in front of a group of people.
I’ve never seen it. She was begging for acceptance!”) “She was just a nasty person. Her and many others.
So many people have come up to me over the years and said, ‘Thank.