Inside Trump’s deeply bizarre ‘obsession’ with Debra Messing — and her ‘lovely pink hair’

Taylor Swift isn’t the one “lovely” celeb Donald Trump has brazenly gushed about.

In response to a brand new guide, the previous president admitted to having a crush on actor Debra Messing — praising her “lovely pink hair” — and continues to be irritated by her very public rejection of him.

Selection co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh reveals in his new guide, Apprentice in Wonderland, that theWill & Grace star, who has been a vocal critic of Trump’s since he first ran for president in 2016, got here up a number of instances throughout their six interviews.

In response to journalist Yashar Ali, who obtained a complicated copy of the Apprentice guide, the previous president “repeatedly introduced up Messing unprompted in a number of sit-down interviews with Setoodeh,” complimented her “engaging” look, and “admitted that he hung out whereas within the White Home monitoring Messing’s Twitter feed.”

Trump additionally “admitted to Setoodeh that he had a crush on Messing years in the past,” based on Ali.

In a single excerpt from the guide, Trump claimed that Messing as soon as approached him “together with her lovely pink hair” and thanked him for “saving” NBC together with his present The Apprentice.

“She mentioned, ‘Sir—I really like you! Thank God for you! You’re saving the community, and also you’re saving my present.’ As a result of in that world, which I do know lots about now, when you have got successful, a lead-in, it’s a large distinction,” Trump instructed Setoodeh. “She was so grateful… She mentioned, ‘I can’t thanks sufficient.’ Do you consider this? I’ve been watching her. And I’m saying, ‘She’d do something for me.’”

Setoodeh added that he identified to Trump that the sitcom Will & Grace aired earlier than The Apprentice and due to this fact wouldn’t have benefited from the latter’s rankings efficiency.

“A lead-in—or a lead out,” Trump then clarified.

In response to the report, the guide additionally paperwork how the previous president’s emotions in the direction of Messing turned bitter when she started to brazenly criticize him after he launched his 2016 presidential bid. In 2020, Messing even shared a social media put up by which she in contrast Trump to Adolf Hitler.

“Right here in New York, throughout his early months exterior the White Home, Trump hasn’t moved on. Messing is on his traitors listing, and he can’t shake the hypocrisy—in his thoughts—that she as soon as supported him as a actuality TV star,” Setoodeh wrote.

In one other excerpt, he added: “In the course of the early years of The Apprentice, Trump even had a crush on Will & Grace’s main woman.

“Possibly that’s why he can’t fairly shake the bitterness that now exists between them. A former president who can’t win over a star virtually sounds just like the premise of a corny romantic comedy, however for Trump, Messing’s rejection continues to be a pointy dagger to his coronary heart.”

“Their squabbles on social media proceed to dwell rent-free in his thoughts,” Ali added.