Nelson shared that Trump had wanted to come down hard on him, but the Scottish police talked him out of pressing charges.
“Trump wanted to really throw the book at me, and the Scottish police convinced him not to press charges.
“Who wants to get waterboarded by the CIA when you can have an Irn Bru in the back of a police van?
“I was in there for ages with the coppers, and it felt more like I was on a stag do than anything else. They drove me to the airport and put me on a plane back to London and told Trump and his team I was deported.”
This wasn’t the first time Nelson had pulled a prank on a big-name figure.
He had previously embarrassed people like former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, ex-FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, and rapper Kanye West.
But Nelson also admitted that not everyone is fair game when it comes to pranking.
“There’s many targets who would be fun to go for but might end up with a death sentence,” Brodkin told Sky in 2019. “Like if I went for Kim Jong Un.
“And then I think if you go for someone like the Queen, that would just be a national catastrophe because you need to go for people with that sweet spot who most people pat you on the back and go, ‘that was funny’.”