Trump Feared Getting Hit In The Face With 'Deadly Pie'

Pie. To many, it’s a delicious treat at the end of a meal that rivals the almighty cake, so versatile that a slice of pumpkin, rhubarb, or pecan could also be enjoyed for breakfast. Some prefer chocolate, others lemon meringue. Popular the world over, apple pie is specifically synonymous with America and all things patriotic, Bess Levin reported for Vanity Fair.

Photo Insert: Trump believes tomatoes, pineapples, bananas - and yes, pie, are “dangerous stuff” that could kill a person.

But to former President Donald Trump, a man who was once in possession of the nuclear codes? It is a dangerous, extremely menacing piece of food whose presence he will not tolerate.

Yes, just weeks after we learned that Trump believes tomatoes, pineapples, and bananas are “dangerous stuff” that could kill a person—and that his security team has been under strict instructions to use physical force to eliminate any such threats—comes the news that the former president of the United States at one point was absolutely terrified about being struck with pie, she added.

The Daily Beast reports that during a four-hour deposition he sat for this month, Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, revealed that his old boss frequently obsessed over a 1998 incident in which Bill Gates was hit with a pie while walking into a building in Belgium, and believed the same fate would befall him.

“For some reason, that upset Mr. Trump terribly. We were all instructed that if somebody was to ever throw anything at him, that if that person didn’t end up in the hospital, we’d all be fired,” Cohen said, noting the directive came from Trump himself.

Asked to elaborate, Cohen told Daily Beast reporter Jose Pagliery, “It wasn’t just one time. It was an ongoing and regular thing. As he would go out to various different open venues, he would always remind head of security Keith Schiller to keep his eyes open. He never would turn around and say, ‘If anyone throws a rock or a bottle…’ It’s always a pie. He always brought up that pie thing.”

While some might wonder about the veracity of Cohen’s claims and the possibility that they’re simply an attempt by an ex-employee to embarrass their former boss, it’s important to remember that Trump himself spoke at length, during a sworn deposition, about his deep-rooted fear of someone throwing a tomato, pineapple, or banana at him.

The following words literally came out of his mouth: “You get hit with fruit, it’s—no, it’s very violent stuff. We were on alert for that. It’s worse than tomato, it’s other things also. But tomato, when they start doing that stuff, it’s very dangerous… I think that they have to be aggressive in stopping that from happening. Because if that happens, you can be killed if that happens.”

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