Todd Owyoung/NBC/Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Donald Trump may have pursued his Hollywood dreams if it weren’t for Tim Allen. That’s what the Home Improvement star told Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast , as he recalled his first time meeting Trump in his The Apprentice days. “I met the dude at a dinner with his wife, who was genuinely a wonderful person,” Allen said of the president and First Lady Melania Trump. “I think it was the second-to-last year of The Apprentice . And he was thinking of moving to Los Angeles and being a movie producer, and he was talking about movies. He said, ‘I really like the film business.’” Read more at The Daily Beast.