Quincy Jones: I wouldn’t visit Trump White House

He spent a night at the White House when former President Clinton was in office, and has visited countless times throughout his career, but legendary music producer Quincy Jones says he wouldn’t step foot near the Oval Office while President Trump occupies it.

“I spent a lot of time here,” Jones recently told ITK of visiting the nation’s capital.

{mosads}“I was at the White House eight years for the Clintons,” recalled Jones, who was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2011. “Inaugurations and all that stuff.”

“All the way back to Eisenhower,” he said, referring to a goodwill tour organized by the State Department during the Cold War when Jones was a member of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band.

But when we inquired whether Jones would head on over to the White House if invited by Trump, he quickly replied, “No.”

“I don’t like him,” Jones said of Trump, shaking his head.

“I used to hang out with him,” he added.

Trump met with Jones ahead of a 2006 hearing in Pennsylvania in which the real estate mogul and 27-time Grammy Award winner were both lobbying state regulators for a casino license.

Jones was also reportedly among an uber-exclusive crowd that partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida at a 2008 bash organized by Oprah Winfrey to mark poet Maya Angelou’s 80th birthday.

Last year, Jones was said to be among the VIPs attending a ticketed New Year’s Eve party hosted by then-President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago. A Jones spokesman later denied that he would be celebrating the new year with Trump.

Jones, 84, a longtime Democratic supporter, donated to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during last year’s race for the White House.