Porn star in ’11: Trump said I reminded him of Ivanka
‘Honeybunch’ called sex ‘textbook generic’
NEW YORK — A porn star who claims she had sex with Donald Trump a decade ago says the future president told her that her strong personality reminded him of his daughter.
“He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with, beautiful, smart, just like his daughter,” X-rated performer Stormy Daniels told In Touch Weekly in 2011, in an interview published this week.
Daniels, whose real name in Stephanie Clifford, took a poly- graph test at the time of the inter- view and said the pair had “really good banter.”
Daniels said her fling with Trump lasted for months, and the two met on several occasions, including rendezvous at his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and at his office in Trump Tower.
The alleged relationship first became public when The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the president’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about their affair.
Daniels told In Touch that she met Trump in 2006, shortly after his wife Melania gave birth to their son, Barron Trump.
She said he invited her to his hotel room for dinner after the pair met at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
After Daniels went to the bathroom after their meal, she returned to see Trump lying in bed beckoning her toward him.
“And I was like, ‘Ugh, here we go,’” she said. “And we started kissing.”
“It was textbook generic,” she said. “I actually don’t even know why I did it, but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Please, don’t try to pay me.’ ”
But she said, “Whether you’re a fan of his or not, which I never really was, you gotta admit he’s pretty fascinating.”
The two stayed in touch for several months, and Trump always called her “honeybunch.”
“Any time I needed to get ahold of him, he always took my call or called me back within 10 minutes,” Daniels added.
Cohen tried to brush off the unearthed interview, telling the New York Daily News that “all they did is recirculate an old and debunked story that Ms. Clifford denied in 2011, 2016 and again in 2018.”
“This is not breaking news … it’s old news that wasn’t true then and not true now,” Cohen added.
A representative for In Touch said that “reporters who worked on the story originally brought In Touch’s 2011 interview with Stormy Daniels to our attention including the transcript, polygraph tests and other documentation” following reports that Daniels was paid off and signed a nondisclosure agreement.
“Donald Trump is clearly a more relevant public figure now than he was in 2011,” the spokeswoman said.