Jane Fonda says she has imaginary bedtime conversations with Trump

Jane Fonda said she sometimes lies awake in bed imagining conversations with Donald Trump.

“In my mind, sometimes when I’m lying in bed, I have conversations with him,” the actor and activist said on the latest episode of Kara Swisher’s podcast, “On With Kara Swisher.”

Fonda said her decade-long marriage to CNN founder Ted Turner, whom she said Trump “used to really like and admire,” meant she could understand certain aspects of the president better than most.

“I feel like because I spent a decade with Ted Turner, I understand Trump a little bit because they have certain things in common: early trauma at the hands of the father, etc.,” he said, adding that he would tell Trump in the imaginary conversations: “You have things in common.”

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Fonda said she would “try to touch his heart.”

She also revealed how her early, unsuccessful efforts to convince Trump to address the climate crisis led her to plan to “go meet him with a group of really bright, sexy women and kneel at his feet, because I thought this would work on Ted, and tell him he could be a global hero if he saved the planet.”

“Baywatch” star and fellow activist Pamela Anderson “was willing to go with me,” he added.

But the effort ultimately failed.

Fonda said she doesn’t “hate” Trump, but considers him — along with figures like Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and an on-again, off-again Trump ally — as simply “not cool.”

“What we see represented is non-welfare,” he said.

Watch the full interview here:

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