STALKER DONALD GAVE DI ‘CREEPS’
Bouquet barrage after her split Import ‘dream lady,’ deport Mex fams
IN YOUR dreams. Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur don’t stop at believing he could be the leader of the free world. The Donald actually thought he had a chance with Princess Di.
Trump practically stalked Princess Diana after her marriage to Prince Charles broke up, according to a British broadcaster.
He sent Diana enough bouquets to fill a flower show, and saw the princess as “the ultimate trophy wife,” according to British TV news queen Selina Scott.
But while he was treating her like a queen, she apparently was feeling queasy.
“‘What am I going to do?’ ” Diana asked Scott, a friend, according to Scott. “‘He gives me the creeps.’ ”
“He bombarded Diana at Kensington Palace with massive bouquets of flowers, each worth hundreds of pounds,” Scott wrote in the Sunday Times of London. “As the roses and orchids piled up at her apartment she became increasingly concerned about what she should do. It had begun to feel as if Trump was stalking her.”
The 36-year-old princess died in 1997, a year after her divorce, in a Paris car wreck while fleeing from photographers.
Trump did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. But in his 1997 book, “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” he expressed his fondness for Diana.
“I only have one regret in the women department — that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer,” Trump wrote. “I met her on a number of occasions. I couldn’t help but notice how she moved people. She lit up the room with her charm, her presence. She was a genuine princess — a dream lady.”
A present-day Trump was less poetic on Sunday. In an hourlong interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he insisted that throwing children out of the country with their illegal immigrant parents is just a way to keep families together.
Trump said he didn’t want to break up families — but would only avoid doing so by deporting children with their parents.
“We have to keep the families together, but they have to go,” the billionaire businessman said. “We either have a country or we don’t have a country.”
Asked about people who have “no place to go,” Trump said he would “work with them” but that “they have to go.”
The surging candidate largely ditched the bombastic style that catapulted him to the top of the race for the GOP nomination during the interview, focusing instead how he would handle the Islamic State, immigration and the Iran nuclear deal. He even posted an essay on immigration reform to his campaign website Sunday morning.
On foreign policy, Trump expanded on his idea that the U.S. can better fight ISIS by wrestling away control of oil fields — the source of its financing.
“You take away their wealth, you go and knock the hell out of the oil, take back the oil,” he said.
Told by host Chuck Todd that such an effort would likely require tens of thousands of ground troops, Trump said: “That’s OK,” explaining that he would use some of the money from the newly seized oil to “take care of the soldiers.”
Trump also offered his opinion on America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, blasting the nation’s oil-based power and suggesting that it should be paying the U.S. for all the support it receives.
“Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day. . . . If it weren’t for us, they wouldn’t be there,” Trump said. “They should pay us.”
Trump, however, said he would let Obama’s controversial Iran nuclear deal stand — but pledged he would “police it.”
“I’ve taken over some bad contracts. I buy contracts where people screwed up and they have bad contracts,” he explained. “But I’m really good at looking at a contract and finding things within a contract that even if they’re bad. I would police that contract so tough that they don’t have a chance.”
Trump touched on domestic issues, too, doubling down on his pro-life-with-exceptions abortion stance, sharing for the first time the criteria he would use to nominate Supreme Court judges.
“I have exceptions (to being against abortion). Rape, incest, if the mother is going to die. And Ronald Reagan had those same exceptions.”
As the roses and orchids piled up ... she became increasingly concerned about what she should do.
SELINA SCOTT BRITISH JOURNALIST