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Heidi Venable

That Time President Trump Reportedly Hung Up On Kim Kardashian When She Called Him At The White House

Donald Trump gives a speech on his YouTube channel; Kim Kardashian on The Kardashians.

Over the past few years, Kim Kardashian has been using her platform for more than just reality TV and selling clothes. Following in the footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian, Kim went to law school and has been advocating for criminal justice reform. She famously teamed up with President Donald Trump in 2018 — apparently taking the president’s call in the nude — to get Alice Marie Johnson’s sentence commuted, but excerpts from the new book Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl tell another story of their partnership, in which Trump allegedly hung on The Kardashians star.

Kim Kardashian wasn’t afraid to go straight to the top in her efforts to get a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson — a first-time nonviolent offender who had been sentenced to life in prison. President Trump commuted her sentence in 2018, and Kardashian continued to call him about other cases. However, after the 2020 election, it seems her good graces with Trump ran out, as — according to an excerpt from Tired of Winning released by Axios — the former president believed the reality star had voted for Joe Biden. Recalling a 2021 phone call between the two, Jonathan Karl writes:  

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