Nicola Sturgeon shares bizarre details of 'mad' phone call with Donald Trump

Scotland’s Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has made a shocking claim about her personal relationship with Donald Trump . According to the ex SNP leader, the US President is an “erratic” man who “punishes his friends more than his enemies”. During an appearance as a panelist on BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday (November 1), Sturgeon shared surprising details of a bonkers phone call she had with the orange manbaby back in 2016.

"He's destabilised not just the sort of global economy in many respects but the interactions between politicians,” Sturgeon recalled of her encounter. "I think it's very, very difficult for any world leader to know exactly how to deal with him because often he takes loyalty and indications of friendship as signs of weakness, so he ends up punishing his friends much more than he punishes his enemies. "There's just an erraticism, the normal rule book doesn't really apply."

The conversation happened a month after Trump won his first US presidential election and shortly before his official inauguration in January 2017. At the time, the Scottish Government publicly described the call as a "brief introductory conversation" focused on longstanding US-Scotland relations, the National reported. "The conversation was mad in many respects," Sturgeon admitted. "But after the call ended, General Mike Flynn - who at the time was his national security advisor - telephoned my chief of staff to a) ask if the call had happened and b) to get a readout of what was said, because Trump had made this call with no reference to any of his advisors.

That's just a small anecdote that I think illustrates a bigger picture of how completely different it is." Trump and Sturgeon were often at odds, with the Scottish leader condemning his conduct and language as “abhorrent” after he won the US presidency in 2016, as per the National. After Sturgeon stepped down in 2023, Trump laid into her, calling her a “failed woke extremist” and a “crazed leftist” who “symbolises everything wrong with identity politics”.

He also branded her a “terrible” politician. Sturgeon later reportedly fired back in kind, insisting the “feeling was mutual, Donnie”, and saying she was “forever proud to represent all the things that offend your view of the world”. This comes as former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed that Trump may be on the verge of launching a catastrophic nuclear strike against Iran, the Daily Star previously reported . Speculation has been mounting for days that Trump could dramatically escalate hostilities in the immediate aftermath of this week's midterm elections.

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