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Ruby Wax’s awkward interview with Donald Trump: ‘I started laughing so he landed the plane’

Now that the next President of the United States is set to be either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, many voters are trying to work out which candidate is the ‘least worst option’.

Now Ruby Wax has put forward her two cents’ worth. Giving a talk on her book A Mindfulness Guide For The Frazzled, Wax recalled her own first hand experience of Trump when she was sent to interview him fifteen years ago:

‘We should be in final flight mode. We should be going on all fours and getting out the claws because Donald Trump.’

The interview did not go to plan after she laughed at his plans to run for president:

‘I mean I interviewed this guy about 15 years ago and I got on his plane, about 33,000 ft up and he told me then that he was thinking about becoming the President of the United States and I started laughing and so he landed the plane.

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