Jane Fonda has been outspoken against Donald Trump since he took office for a second term in 2025, and apparently, she’s also outspoken to him… inside her own head, anyway. During a new podcast appearance this week, Jane admitted that she has “conversations” with him before going to sleep at night, hoping that she can somehow find a way to reach him despite the fact that he is clearly “unwell.”
Jane feels she understands Trump better than others might.
While appearing on Kara Swisher’s podcast, On With Kara Swisher, Jane admitted that “in my mind, sometimes when I lie in bed, I have conversations with him” in the hopes that she might be able to “touch his heart.”
Since Jane was married to CNN mogul Ted Turner for 10 years before their split in 2001 — someone Jane said Trump once “used to really like and admire” — she feels like she has a better personal understanding of the president than many other US citizens do.
“I feel 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.,” she said.
She’s made attempts to reach him personally about causes she cares about before.
Jane went on to say that in the past, she’s tried to set up in person meetings with Trump to address her concerns about climate change, and even cooked up a plan that she thought would really speak to him.
Apparently, she wanted to bring Pamela Anderson to “go and meet with him with a bunch of really brilliant, sexy women and kneel at his feet, because I thought this would work with Ted, and tell him he could be a global hero if he saved the planet.” Unfortunately, that meeting never came to be (but knowing Trump, she might have really been onto something there).
Instead of feeling “hate” towards Trump, Jane said that instead, she views him as someone who is unwell, adding, “It’s the not-wellness that we see acted out.”
Recently, Jane spoke out against the Trump administration’s brand of ‘authoritarianism.’
When she was a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in January, Jane shared her concerns about what his administration is doing, like ICE “kidnapping people,” including American citizens.
“If the government is not meeting the needs of its people, there’s something wrong, right?” she said. “We’re seeing things happen that have never happened before. This isn’t like it was in the 40s and 50s. Authoritarianism has made its way into every single nook and cranny of our government.”
