Female Interviewer Recounts Time She Was Booted Off Trump’s Plane
A British interviewer has shared a comical memory involving Donald Trump from well before his time in the White House—a story she now looks back on with amusement.
Ruby Wax, an American-born comedian well-known in the UK for her longstanding presence on the BBC, recalled being kicked off Donald Trump’s private plane in the 1990s. At the time, Trump was a wealthy real estate mogul, and Wax was set to interview him. But things went south after she laughed at him when he told her he wanted to run for president.
The anecdote came up during Wax’s recent appearance on Kate Garraway’s ITV talk show.
Wax explained that she always insisted on having informal pre-interview meals, during which her guests would often open up about “really personal things”—conversations that she promised wouldn’t make it into the final interview.
However, her encounter with Trump didn’t go as planned.
“Donald — you know, when a man treats you like an idiot, you kind of become an idiot,” Wax recalled. “Because he knows females because he just has sex with them. But he couldn’t figure me out. He really was so fierce and so vicious. He said, ‘You’re angry with a smile.’ So he got me — because I was backed into a corner.”
She continued, “He did say, ‘I want to be the next president of the United States,’ and I thought it was a joke. I thought, ‘What a sense of humor this guy has.’ So I started laughing. And he said, ‘That’s it, I want her off the flight.’”
According to Wax, the jet had barely hit cruising altitude—“we only got to 33,000 feet”—before turning back around. “It’s not a good show,” she quipped.
Speaking to Garraway and Charlotte Hawkins on Good Morning Britain, Wax said Trump “wouldn’t speak” to her after she laughed in response to his presidential aspirations.
“So my crew and I landed and we were stuck in Arkansas with nowhere to go,” she said, according to the Mirror. Eventually, they tracked Trump down in Nebraska, where he was serving as a judge at a Miss Nebraska beauty pageant.
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Meanwhile, Trump’s approval ratings have recently seen a noticeable boost, despite criticism from Democrats, some Republicans, and major media outlets over his aggressive trade policies.
A fresh poll from J.L. Partners and the Daily Mail, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters between March 31 and April 3, showed that Trump’s approval rating has climbed to 53 percent—up four points from the previous week’s 49 percent. The Daily Mail called the result “surprising,” especially given the market volatility and criticism that followed the April 2 rollout of new tariffs affecting numerous trade partners.
Among younger voters aged 18 to 29, Trump’s popularity has surged by 13 points since March 7. The poll suggests he’s consolidating support within this age group, which shifted 10 points in his favor during the last election cycle after backing Joe Biden in 2020.
Registered Democrats and independents have also shown a 6-point increase in support, while Trump’s favorability with Black voters jumped 17 points in just a week.
As Trump approaches the 100-day milestone of his presidency, business owners across the country are giving him strong marks—particularly when it comes to his economic policies.
“I would give President Trump, right now, a pretty solid B+,” said TaChelle Lawson, founder of FIG Strategy & Consulting and a contributor to the Freedom Economy Index, during an interview with Fox News Digital. “He came in with a very clear plan, and that was focusing on economics. He’s definitely putting business first, trimming the fat.”
Lawson acknowledged that while the administration's priorities are appreciated, “the messaging could use a little bit of work.”
She was one of over 50,000 small business owners who took part in the latest quarterly survey conducted by RedBalloon and PublicSquare. The data shows more than two-thirds of respondents expect either “slow” or “robust” growth throughout the year—marking a sharp turnaround from earlier pessimism, according to Fox Business.
RedBalloon CEO Andrew Crapuchettes echoed that sentiment. “What we’re seeing right now is we have a very sick economy, and it needs some very strong medicine. And if it gets that medicine, we all feel like we have a very strong economy that will win and will actually be a huge blessing to the entire world,” he said.
“Because when the U.S. economy is strong, when small businesses in the U.S. economy are strong, we feel like we can have a disproportionate and positive impact on the entire planet,” Crapuchettes continued.
Michael Seifert, CEO of PublicSquare, added that small business owners are encouraged by Trump’s moves to cut through “the overregulation, the red tape seeded in bureaucracy that seeks to stifle business growth.”