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Kathie Lee Gifford recalls how Trump protected her from a death threat: ‘I will love this man for my whole life’

February 22, 2025 | | Print Article

An emotional story from Kathie Lee Gifford once again revealed “the real Donald Trump” and the lengths he’d taken to protect her from a death threat.

Once a host of “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” and “Today,” the entertainer had joined “The Sage Steele Show” in early February. While much of the discussion revolved around faith, the entertainer teared up as she explained what future President Donald Trump did that left her asserting, “I will love this man for my whole life.”

As Gifford recalled, shortly after her daughter Cassidy was born in 1993, she was scheduled to once again join Regis Philbin as the host of the Trump-owned Miss America Pageant. However, before she could depart, her husband, Frank Gifford, had received a call from the FBI that the same man who’d been accused of raping and torturing his aunt was threatening his wife.

“Frank said, ‘I’m going to make one call. I will not agree to that until I make one call.’ And he called Donald,” she explained of the situation that, at the time, she was unaware of. “I always stayed at the Trump Tower there, the one in Atlantic City. And Frank called Donald, and told him about the situation. And Donald said — and this is why I love this man for my whole life — he said, ‘Frank, don’t you worry about it. I’ve got your girls.'”

It was the next day when Gifford recalled she heard from Trump, “Donald calls me, he goes, ‘Kathy…I’m sending my helicopter for you.'”

“I wish more people shared these stories of the real Donald Trump,” wrote one user on social media sharing a clip from the podcast. “This is the first time I had heard this one. Thank you for sharing @KathieLGifford @sagesteele.”

As Gifford recalled, she had questioned why the businessman she called friend was taking such lengths when having a baby was such an everyday thing, “Try to talk Donald out of something.”

Throughout the week, the entertainer, who had been met with a slew of security upon arriving in Atlantic City, New Jersey, noticed even more protection but only discovered what was up the day of the pageant when she found a newspaper with a headline about the death threat.

“Then I understood everything. I understood what Donald had done. I understood what Frank had done to try to…not be afraid and all of that,” she told Steele and noted, “This is a story I’ve rarely, rarely told in 31 years.”

Ahead of the presidential election, other examples of the good of the GOP leader had included attention given to the families of victims of violent illegal aliens and the family of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who’d been slain by the would-be assassin who fired upon Trump at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pa.

The president had also taken time out of his schedule to deliver a special birthday wish to an eight-year-old boy suffering from a rare brain disorder.

Gifford went on to explain to Steele how she returned home to learn her three-year-old son Cody had been under the protection of the FBI while she was away and decided to take him to a movie. It was during the film that an FBI agent informed her, “Mrs. Gifford, we got the son of a b*tch.”

“The story I just told you is the man I know,” she told Steele. “That’s my friend Donald. Saved my life, saved my daughter’s life. And if I called him today, would save it again.”

Much like Gifford, the host expressed of Trump how “so many refuse to look at the good,” as others chimed in about the help the president often offers without seeking any credit.

Kevin Haggerty
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