Trump’s elevator ‘smooch’
FORMER Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy said that President Donald Trump tried to kiss her in an elevator around the time he married Melania.
Huddy, who allegedly received a settlement when she made a complaint against disgraced anchor Bill O’Reilly, described how the mogul leaned in to kiss her after he took her to lunch at Trump Tower in 2005.
On Thursday, Huddy revealed on “Mornin’!!! W/ Bill Schulz” on CompoundMedia.com that she rebuffed the now-president in the Trump Tower elevator. A few years after the brush-off, Trump appeared on her Fox News chat show and joked, while the cameras weren’t running, “I hit on her, but she blew me off.”
On Schultz’s show, Huddy said of Trump, “He took me for lunch at Trump Tower, just us two. He said goodbye to me in an elevator while his security guy was there. Rather than kiss me on the cheek, he leaned in to kiss me on the lips. I wasn’t offended. I was kind of like, ‘Oh my God.’ ” She said she went to meet a friend and Trump then invited them both back to see “The Apprentice” set, “and everything was copacetic after that.”
“I was surprised that he went for the lips,” Huddy added. “But I didn’t feel threatened . . . He took me out to lunch to talk about maybe me doing something with ‘The Apprentice.’ He used to watch ‘Fox & Friends,’ the show I was hosting on the weekend. Whatever, everything was fine. It was a weird moment. He never tried anything after that, and I was never alone with him.”
She told how Trump joked about his clumsy pass at her on her show. “Trump was a guest and he came onstage,” Huddy explained. “He said, to the audience and producers, not on camera, ‘I tried hitting on her but she blew me off.’ He was laughing. At the time, I was not offended by it. I thought he was a single man and leaned in for a kiss . . . Maybe he thought, ‘She’s been out to lunch with me and maybe she is interested.’
“Now [that] I have matured, I think I would say, ‘Whoa, no’ . . . The elevator incident and the lunch was 2005 or 2006.” Trump married Melania in January 2005. His rep did not get back to us.