Before casting your vote in November, it's crucial to assess the character and attitudes of those seeking your support. Donald Trump's statements over the years reveal a troubling pattern of disrespect, objectification, and misogyny towards women. His rhetoric, spanning decades, showcases a consistent disregard for the value and humanity of women, evident in his comments on platforms like The Howard Stern Show and various interviews.
Trump's behavior towards women goes beyond mere words, extending to his actions in contexts such as owning beauty pageants and his personal life. From boasting about groping women without consent to making shocking remarks about underage girls and publicly objectifying his own daughter, his statements and actions paint a concerning picture of his attitude towards women.
His appearances on platforms like The Howard Stern Show further illuminate his views, where he openly admitted to mistreating women and likened dating to a battlefield, even comparing it to the horrors of war.
As you consider your vote, remember that supporting candidates who perpetuate misogyny only reinforces harmful stereotypes and attitudes towards women. Your vote matters, so choose wisely.
Donald Trump's Attitude Towards Women
"When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left."
After the Gold Rush, Vanity Fair, 1 September 1990 by Marie Brenner
"You have to treat 'em [women] like shit."
Reported in Baumgold, Julie 1992-11-09. Fighting Back: Trump Scrambles off the Canvas. New York
"Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you." (to two 14-year-old girls in 1992)
"I'm gonna be dating her in ten years." (of a 10-year-old girl, in 1992)
Emily Schultheis (13 October 2016), More allegations, questionable Trump comments on women surface, CBS News
Howard Stern: "So, you treat women with respect?"
Donald Trump: "Uh, I can't say that either."
Howard Stern: "Alright, good."
In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1993
"You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam—it’s called the dating game... Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam."
In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1993, People
"Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla [Maples, Trump's second wife], she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet [gestures toward own chest], but time will tell..."
On his then-one-year-old daughter Tiffany, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, 1994
"It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of. It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider”
Speaking of having sex and referring to women's genitals as “potential landmines”.
In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, 1997, People
"People want me to [run for president] all the time … I don't like it. Can you imagine how controversial I'd be? You think about him [Bill Clinton] and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?"
Trump ‘toys’ with prez run, New York Post
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
Quoted in New York, 28 October 2002
"I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways."
Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003)
"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."
Ny Daily News (24 March 2004)
"I'll go backstage, before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it. You know I'm inspecting, I want to make sure everything is good, the dresses, "Is everyone OK?", you know they're standing there with no clothes, "Is everybody OK?", and you see these incredible-looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that."
"They had a person who was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors. And I wasn't interested."
"I did try and fuck her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look. I've gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
To Billy Bush in 2005; Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women, The New York Times (8 October 2016)
"It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her."
On March 07, 2006, during an episode of The View, Donald Trump discussed the prospect of Ivanka Trump posing for Playboy magazine. As quoted in Did Donald Trump Say He’d Like to Date His Daughter? by Dan Evon, 10 July 2015 on Snopes, and a video clip referenced by Adam Withnall in The Independent (UK) (10 October 2016), Donald Trump's unsettling record of comments about his daughter Ivanka.
"No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds,"
Donald Trump Howard Stern Tapes Show Him Saying 35 Is 'Check-Out Time' For Women And Agreeing His Daughter Is A 'Piece Of Ass' (2006) When asked if he has an age limit for women he'll sleep with.
"Believe me: She [one of the women accusing him of sexual assault] would not be my first choice, that I can tell you."
Rally in Greensboro, N.C., CNN (October 14, 2016)
Anderson Cooper: "You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?"
Donald Trump: "No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was — this was locker room talk. I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do."
"Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no. I saved your suburbs -- women -- suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump."
Trump continues bizarre appeals to suburban women as he campaigns in Covid hotspots, Maeve Reston (17 October 2020), CNN
"Pregnancy is a wonderful thing for the woman, it's a wonderful thing for the husband, it's certainly an inconvenience for a business."
About pregnancy (2004)
"She's constantly playing the woman card. It's the only way she may get elected. I mean frankly... Personally, I'm not sure that anybody else other than me is going to beat her. And I think she's a flawed candidate. And you see what's happened recently. And it hasn't been a very pretty picture for her or for Bill. Because I'm the only one that's willing to talk about his problems. I mean, what he did and what he has gone through I think is frankly terrible, especially if she wants to play the woman card."
"Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o'clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise."
Michael Wolff in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (5 January 2018)
"I'd have no problem" sleeping with 24-year-olds." (Trump was 60 at the time.) [2006]
Asked whether he's had sex with a Black woman: "Well, it depends on what your definition of Black is." [2005]
"You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." [1991]
To a female reporter: "We could say, politically correct, that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters. Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful." [2014]
"26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military — only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" [May 7, 2013]
"Look at her ass" (allegation by former administration Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham) [May 9, 2023]
"I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." [Nov. 17, 1999]
"There's nothing I love more than women, but they're really a lot different than portrayed. They are far worse than men, far more aggressive, and boy, can they be smart!" [1997]
"Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part." [1997]
Donald Trump's View Towards Specific Women
Vice President Kamala Harris
"This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way. I thought that wasn't even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don't think you could get worse. And totally unlikeable" [Oct. 8, 2020]
"You know what, people don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country." [Sept. 8, 2020]
"Very, very nasty ... the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate." [Aug. 11, 2020]
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"This is not even a smart person, other than she's got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps." [Aug. 14, 2020]
Stormy Daniels
"Horseface" [Oct. 16, 2018]
"I never liked horseface. That wouldn't be the one. There is no one. We have a great First Lady." [March 25, 2023]
Omarosa Manigault Newman
"A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog." [Aug. 14, 2018]
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
"[S]omeone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)." [Dec. 12, 2017]
French first lady Brigitte Macron
"You know, you're in such good shape. Beautiful." [July 13, 2017]
Mika Brzezinski
"I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" [June 29, 2017]
Hillary Clinton
"Such a nasty woman." [Oct. 19, 2016]
"If she were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote." [April 26, 2016]
"If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?" [April 16, 2015]
Carly Fiorina
"Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" [Sept. 9, 2015]
Heidi Klum
"Sadly, she's no longer a 10." [Aug. 15, 2015]
Megyn Kelly
"She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." [Aug. 7, 2015]
"I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo because that would not be politically correct. Instead, I will only call her a lightweight reporter!" [Aug. 7, 2015]
Kim Kardashian
Asked if her butt is big: "Well, absolutely. It's record-setting. In the old days, they'd say she has a bad body." [June 18, 2014]
"Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely." [Feb. 6, 2013]
Halle Berry
"I love her … upper body." [February 2013]
Beyoncé
"When Beyoncé was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else would have done that it would have been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous ... I thought it was not appropriate." [February 2013]
Jessica Chastain
"She's certainly not hot." [February 2013]
Cher
"I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn't work." [Nov. 13, 2012]
Bette Midler
"@BetteMidler talks about my hair but I'm not allowed to talk about her ugly face or body --- so I won't. Is this a double standard?" [Oct. 28, 2012]
Two minutes later: "While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." [Oct. 28, 2012]
Kristen Stewart
"Robert [Pattinson] I'm getting a lot of heat for saying you should dump Kristen — but I'm right. If you saw the Miss Universe girls, you would reconsider." [Oct. 18, 2012]
Arianna Huffington
"Unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man — he made a good decision." [Aug. 28, 2012]
Angelina Jolie
"Angelina Jolie is sort of amazing because everyone thinks she's like this great beauty. And I'm not saying she's an unattractive woman, but she's not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination." [October 2007]
"I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she's not — I do own Miss Universe. I do own Miss USA. I mean I own a lot of different things. I do understand beauty, and she's not." [October 2007]
"I remember at the Academy Awards a few years ago she was frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I never saw before in my life. And she had just said she made love to Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on the way over. And I wouldn't want to shake her hand, by the way." [October 2007]
Rosie O'Donnell
"Can you imagine the parents of Kelli ... when she said, 'Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie?'" [Dec. 29, 2006]
"We're all a little chubby but Rosie's just worse than most of us. But it's not the chubbiness — Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out." [2006]
"Rosie's a person who's very lucky to have her girlfriend and she better be careful or I'll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend. Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?" [2006]
"If I were running 'The View,' I'd fire Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.'" [2006]
His daughter Ivanka Trump
When asked if Ivanka, then 24, had breast implants: "She's actually always been very voluptuous." [2006]
"She does have a very nice figure ... if [she] weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." [June 4, 2004]
His wife Melania Trump
When asked if he would stay with her if she was disfigured in a car crash: "How do the breasts look?" [April 11, 2005]
Nancy O'Dell
"I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and f--k her. She was married." [2005]
Lindsay Lohan
"What do you think of Lindsay Lohan? There's something there, right? But you have to like freckles. I've seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? ... She's probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women — deeply, deeply troubled — they're always the best in bed?" [2004]
Steffi Graf
"You never get to the face because the body's so good." [Sept. 23, 2004]
Paris Hilton
"Now, somebody who a lot of people don't give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?'" [2003]
Princess Diana
Three weeks after her death, Trump was asked if he could have "nailed" Princess Diana: "I think I could have." [1997]
His daughter Tiffany Trump
"Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla. She's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs." Motioning to his chest, Trump added: "We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell." [1994]
Women who appeared on 'The Apprentice'
To a contestant on "The Apprentice:" "That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees." [2013]
"All of the women on 'The Apprentice' flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." [2004]
"It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on 'The Apprentice' were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal." [2004]
2024 GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley
"Nimbra doesn't have what it takes" [Jan. 19, 2024]
"Birdbrain doesn't have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job" [Sept. 29, 2023]
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