Overview

• Thompson recounted that in 1998, while filming Primary Colors, Donald Trump called her dressing room and invited her to stay at one of his properties and have dinner
• She noted the call coincided with the day her divorce from Kenneth Branagh became official and she found the timing suspicious
• The actress declined the invitation, quipped it might have changed U.S. history and later characterized the unsolicited contact as harassment
• Her account is based solely on her public remarks in Locarno and there is no independent corroboration or response from President Trump
• The anecdote has drawn renewed interest because Trump was then a businessman and TV figure but is now the sitting president