Woody Harrelson on his ‘brutal’ dinner with Donald Trump
JESSE Ventura, Woody Harrelson and Donald Trump walk into a restaurant. No, this isn’t a setup. Apparently, the three famous personalities sat down to dinner in 2002, as Trump, then a Democrat, was plotting a run for president with Ventura as his second-incommand.
The meeting went exactly as you’d expect, according to the former “Cheers” star who recounted the tale on his buddy Bill Maher’s HBO talk show Saturday night.
“It was brutal. It was brutal,” emphasized Harrelson, currently starring as President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Rob Reinerdirected biopic “LBJ.”
“I never met a more narcissistic man,” the actor continued, referring to Trump. “He talked about himself the whole time. You could see the standard he was going to bear.”
During the interview, Harrelson also described Johnson, the tough-talking Texas rancher, as vulgar “but in private.”
To get through the Trump dinner, Harrelson said, he had to take a pause for the cause.
“I had to walk out halfway through to smoke a joint just to, like, steel myself from the rest of it. It was brutal.” — WPBloomberg