TURNER’S POL PUNCH: CONFIDENTIAL
GRAVELLY-VOICED-cinema star Kathleen Turner has looked into punching the President, but she probably won’t do it. The 63-year-old siren (inset) wrote in her 2008 memoir that one of her biggest regrets is that she didn’t sock anti-integration congressman Strom Thurmond when she had the chance. Guess who’s on her hit list now?
“Trump,” she told us at the Lower East Side premiere of “Dolores” before quickly walking back that comment. “I mean I honestly . . . oh, no — I must not say that. OK. Never mind.”
According to Turner, who famously went toe to toe with Michael Douglas in 1980s classics “The War of the Roses” and “Romancing the Stone,” says she’s researched the possibility of dropping The Donald with a right hook and understands why it’s not smart to threaten a sitting president.
“Well, let’s just suggest — I’ve looked up what certain jail times would be for different actions. OK?” Turner said. But even if she could get a pardon for taking a swing at the commander-in-chief, she’s not sure she’d do it. “Probably not, because I’m actually nonviolent,” Turner said. “I like to think hate. You know, I have a great imagination.”
In “Send Yourself Roses,” Turner wrote that Thurmond, who died in 2003 at age 100, almost caught a haymaker from her in the 1990s when she was lobbying Congress for funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
According to Turner, she wound up to clock Thurmond after he dismissively said to her “Little lady, I’ve always liked blonds,” during their brief encounter. But the punch never came.
Nowadays, Turner, who opens a cabaret show called “Finding My Voice” in Philadelphia next month, finds herself fighting for Planned Parenthood.
“I’m worried about women dying,” she said. “I’m worried that so many young lives are ruined by unplanned pregnancies. I don’t understand why we are not — we don’t have more common ground.” Oscar-winner Robert De
Niro has also stated that he’d like to punch the President in the face — a comment he first made when Trump was a candidate, then repeated on ABC’s “The View” shortly after The Donald took office.