Woody Harrelson Once Had to Escape a 'Brutal' Dinner With Donald Trump By Going Outside to Smoke Wee

[demmiblue]

It's really hard to imagine anyone possibly upsetting Woody Harrelson, the most supremely chill man in Hollywood. But, it turns out, Donald Trump happens to be unpleasant enough to do exactly that.

In a new interview for Esquire's September cover, Harrelson recounted a particularly brutal dinner with Trump, Melania, and Jesse Ventura in 2002:

So Jesse Ventura [former pro wrestler and ex-governor of Minnesota] is a buddy of mine, and he called me up—and this is in, oh, 2002—and said, ‘Donald Trump is going to try to convince me to be his running mate for the Democratic ticket in 2004. Will you be my date?’ I said, ‘Yeah, man.’ So we all met at Trump Tower, sat down. Melania was there, only she wasn’t his wife yet. And it was, let me tell you, a brutal dinner. Two and a half hours. The fun part was watching Jesse’s moves. It would look like Trump had him pinned, was going to get him to say yes, and then Jesse would slip out at the last second. Now, at a fair table with four people, each person is entitled to 25 percent of the conversation, right? I’d say Melania got about 0.1 percent, maybe. I got about 1 percent. And the governor, Jesse, he got about 3 percent. Trump took the rest. It got so bad I had to go outside and burn one before returning to the monologue monopoly. Listen, I came up through Hollywood, so I’ve seen narcissists. This guy was beyond. It blew my mind. He did say one thing that was interesting, though. He said, ‘You know, I’m worth four billion dollars,’ or maybe he said five billion dollars—one of those numbers, I forget. Anyway, he said, ‘I’m worth however- many billion dollars. But when I die, no matter how much it is, I know my kids are going to fight over it.’ That was the one true statement he made that night, and I thought, Okay, yeah, that’s pretty cool.

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“As a freshman, I gave a sermon to a youth group, and Mike was the guy running the show. He was a junior, I think ... He struck me as a nice guy, very sincere. I don’t know how well we’d get along now, but we got along okay then."

In the end, Pence and Harrelson went down much different paths. One is a vice president who calls his wife "mother," the other is a national treasure who is going to star in Zombieland: Double Tap

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28624503/woody-harrelson-donald-trump-dinner-mike-pence/

Link to entire cover story: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28519616/woody-harrelson-profile-interview-2019/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. You can't learn anything new when you're talking.

No wonder the combover gas bag is so stupid.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Those are the ones who claim they can talk and listen at the same time...

No shit, I've had people tell me that.

That one's a huge red flag for me.

[rurallib]

2. can't wait to see the Trump monster kids fighting over his "billions"

Hope the lawyers get it all.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I can't wait

they'll be fighting over millions, not billions, after the creditors and lawyers take their chunks

[Autumn]

3. Can't wait to see Zombieland: Double Tap.

[pecosbob]

6. Will Tallahassee find Twinkies? What was rule #3 again?

These are questions I need answered.

[Autumn]

7. Wasn't # 3 watch out for bathrooms? October.

I love that show.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Harrelson is definitely chill. I once elbowed the poor guy in the ribs pretty hard by accident.

He took it in stride and laughed.

It was at a small bar outside of Boston. His band was playing that night and really really late. I was coming back from the bathroom trying to make my way to my husband through a packed crowd. All of a sudden there was a gap, so my nudging folks aside turned into a sharp elbow without my intending that at all. Got him good. The crowd had parted because he and his band had finally turned up through a back door.

I think he said "that will teach me to show up on time" or something to that effect. Thanked me for coming to the show and leapt onto the stage. Single bound impressive type leap. Made a joke at one point during the show about playing with a cracked rib and Boston being a tough crowd. Cam Neely was in the audience so everyone thought he was talking about him.

[FakeNoose]

10. That's a cool story

Woody is definitely a cool guy.

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. When I bump into a celebrity, it tends to be quite literal.

I don't meet famous people, I collide with them.

[Blecht]

15. A few decades ago I rounded a corner in Manhattan and

I crashed into Ed Bradley -- we both said our "Excuse me"s and went on our way.

I was surprised by his lack of height -- I had a couple of inches on him. He wasn't short, but he seemed very tall on TV.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Celebrities always seem shorter to me than I expected.

But I'm a 5"9" female. So that's been the story of my life.

[Downtown Hound]

9. One of my claims to fame in life is that I smoked some of Woody Harrelson's Kief one time

I was in college at Humboldt State University in 2001, and Woody Harrelson came by to do a speech on environmentalism. HSU is known for being both a weed school and an environmental school. So he came and talked about all kinds of issues, including legalizing cannabis. Of course, the school loved it and cheered him on every step of the way.

After the speech was over, some of us went up the the stage and talked to him. I told him that he was an inspiration to me and had been ever since he had scaled the Golden Gate Bridge in an act of protest against Charles Hurwitz clear cutting the Redwoods. I also told him that I was one of the people who got stuck in the traffic that resulted from that protest, because I was on my way to the San Francisco Airport to pick up my sister at the time. He apologized to me for the inconvenience, and I told him it was okay, I understood that some issues are bigger than us. But then he smiled at me and said, "Hey man, let me make it up to you."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a container of Kief. I had smoked plenty of weed up to that point in my life but never Kief. It was kind of a new thing back in 2001. He gave the whole thing to me. I smoked it later that night in my dorm room with some friends. Got us all totally ripped. My first time ever smoking Kief, and it was Woody Harrelson's.

Woody really is a great guy. Very down to Earth, very chill, very humble, incredibly smart, and a fantastic actor. Meeting him was one of the highlights of my time in college.

[FakeNoose]

11. Wow! love this

[panader0]

17. Paul McCartney bought some Afghani weed I grew years ago. D. Sutherland too.

He was in Tucson with his wife Linda and were visiting her folks
on their eastside ranch. He bought it through a lawyer and I never
met him, but still.....
Strong indica.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. That's awesome!

[dalton99a]

12. Kick