Years ago, Sacha Baron Cohen tried to rip me off, says Donald Trump.
On board Air Force One:
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was not a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen – even before a clip from British comedian Borat’s new film forced US President Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer into a clumsy explanation.
Asked about the clip – which shows Giuliani in a fake “interview” with an attractive and flirtatious young woman – as he spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said: “I don’t know what’s going on. happened”.
“But years ago, you know, he tried to swindle me. And I was the only one who said no. He’s a fake guy. And I don’t find him funny.”
Trump said the incident happened about 15 years ago.
“To me he was a creep,” Trump said.
The president didn’t provide more details about this meeting, but in a 2003 interview, Baron Cohen – playing budding gangster Ali G – started a business venture in Trump: special gloves for eating ice cream.
Before the release of the new Borat movie, word of Baron Cohen’s latest outrageous ambushes against unsuspecting contestants had spread like wildfire.
On Wednesday, Giuliani issued an angry denial about the fake interview.
In the film, the encounter appears to leave the 76-year-old former New York mayor in a compromising position, caught with his hands in his pants in the bedroom.
Giuliani said the scene was “a complete fabrication”.
“I was putting my shirt away after removing the recording equipment. At no time before, during or after the interview was I ever inappropriate,” he tweeted.
“If Sacha Baron Cohen suggests otherwise, he is a foolproof liar.”
The comedian continued to make fun of Giuliani.
In a video posted to social media, Borat himself took his stand and accused “bogus news media” – a term often used by Trump and his supporters – of turning an “innocent” meeting into “something” disgusting “.
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