Overview
- In a May 2026 interview with Zeit Magazin, Klum revisited decades of encounters with President Trump and said she doubts his political qualifications for a job that decides over many people.
- Klum framed her concern with a vivid metaphor, comparing an untrained president to a surgeon operating without formal study to stress that top leadership should be learned.
- She recounted meeting Trump at the late-1990s Studio 54 film set, seeing him repeatedly at New York events, and attending his 2005 wedding because her then-husband Ric Pipino styled Melania Trump's hair.
- Klum noted she once answered a 2015 derogatory remark by Trump with a joking social-media post and said she generally handled that attack with humor rather than public anger.
- German outlets have widely republished the Zeit interview this month, and the coverage highlights a broader point Klum made about U.S. celebrity politicians versus European norms exemplified by Angela Merkel, without any reported political fallout so far.