--- title: Candice Bergen Admits She Once Had a Blind Date with Trump description: The 'Home Away' actress recalled an ill-fated rendezvous between her 18-year-old self and a young Donald Trump, calling him a "douche." canonical: https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-14T16:01:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:28.462Z og:title: Candice Bergen Details Her Color-Coordinated Date with Trump og:description: "He was a good-looking guy. And a douche." og:url: https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e5a5686397bbc2a/6988ddc4fb4eacc71f893b88/candace-bergen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - September 6, 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Candice Bergen Details Her Color-Coordinated Date with Trump twitter:description: "He was a good-looking guy. And a douche." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e5a5686397bbc2a/6988ddc4fb4eacc71f893b88/candace-bergen.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Candice Bergen Describes Her Very Color-Coordinated Date With Donald Trump ## Video: A Body Language Expert Analyzes Trump and Putin's First Meeting [Watch (HLS stream): A Body Language Expert Analyzes Trump and Putin's First Meeting](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LpHu3R2W.m3u8) (1:45)  _Published 2017-07-07. TIME spoke with Patti Wood, a body language expert, to read between the lines._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 14, 2017 4:01 PM UTC  Actress Candice Bergen visits the SiriusXM Studios on September 6, 2017 in New York City. Actress Candice Bergen visits the SiriusXM Studios on September 6, 2017 in New York City.Taylor Hill—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 14, 2017 4:01 PM UTC Famously no-nonsense actress [Candice Bergen](http://time.com/3768622/10-questions-with-candice-bergen/) has a story to tell about the time she went on a blind date with none other than the current U.S. President. During an interview with Harry Connick Jr., Bergen recalled that fateful evening with [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4941110/donald-trump-crooked-hillary-clinton-lost-the-election-because-she-had-no-game/) many years ago. “I was 18,” [Bergen said](http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/13/candice-bergen-donald-trump-blind-date/) of the time of her date. “He was a nice-looking guy, I mean, he was. And I was in college, and it’s where he was going to be going to college… It was like a blind date. He called me in the dorm. I was bored,” she explained. (Bergen attended the University of Pennsylvania just like Trump, although she eventually left the school to pursue her modeling and acting career.) But that’s not all: “He picked me up. He was wearing a burgundy three-piece suit with burgundy patent leather boots, and he was in a burgundy limousine, so it was very color-coordinated. I was home by nine.” When pressed, she clarified that “nine” was P.M., not A.M. “It was a very short dinner,” she noted. On a Wednesday night appearance for Andy Cohen’s _Watch What Happens Live_, Bergen — wearing a “Free Melania” sweater — [reiterated](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/candice-bergen-trump%5Fus%5F59ba7f09e4b02da0e13f88d3) the same version of events. “He was a good-looking guy. And a douche,” she said of her former date, deadpan. She added there was no physical contact between the two. Trump, of course, went on to marry three times. For her part, Bergen’s other dates seem to have [found better success:](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/candice-bergen-and-her-fine-romances/2/) she was married for 15 years to the French filmmaker Louis Malle before his passing, and has spent the last 17 with husband Marshall Rose, a real estate magnate. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/"},"headline":"Candice Bergen Describes Her Very Color-Coordinated Date With Donald Trump","datePublished":"2017-09-14T16:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:28.462Z","description":"The 'Home Away' actress recalled an ill-fated rendezvous between her 18-year-old self and a young Donald Trump, calling him a \"douche.\"","url":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e5a5686397bbc2a/6988ddc4fb4eacc71f893b88/candace-bergen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e5a5686397bbc2a/6988ddc4fb4eacc71f893b88/candace-bergen.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - September 6, 2017","caption":"Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - September 6, 2017","creditText":"Taylor Hill—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/","name":"Candice Bergen Describes Her Very Color-Coordinated Date With Donald Trump"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Body Language Expert Analyzes Trump and Putin's First Meeting","description":"TIME spoke with Patti Wood, a body language expert, to read between the lines.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/LpHu3R2W/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-07-07T20:55:59.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LpHu3R2W.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/","duration":"PT1M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4941328/candice-bergen-donald-trump-date/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```