For the second time in just below a decade, Donald Trump is the president of the US of America. This return to energy has been fueled, partially, by Trump’s portrayal of himself as a paragon of masculinity for a rustic he claims has been weakened by the erosion of gender norms.
The president has spent a lot of his time within the public eye making feedback concerning the bodily attractiveness or psychological acuity of assorted feminine associates. These remarks supply a broader glimpse into Trump’s perspective on girls at giant.
On former Vice President Kamala Harris
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“Do you need to lose your life financial savings as a result of we put a weak and silly lady within the White Home?” [November 2, 2024]
“She is sluggish and torpid in answering even the simplest of questions.” [October 13, 2024]
“Lyin’ Kamala, who’s being uncovered as a ‘dummy’ each time she does a present.” [October 8, 2024]
“Kamala is mentally impaired.” [September 29, 2024]
“Retarded.” [September 29, 2024]
“They put her in, and he or she by some means — a girl — by some means she’s doing higher than [President Joe Biden] did.” [September 18, 2024]
“I’m significantly better wanting than Kamala Harris.” [August 17, 2024]
“She was a bum three weeks in the past. She was a bum. A failed vp in a failed administration.” [July 27, 2024]
“She’s so dangerous. She’s so pathetic. She’s so fu*king dangerous.” [July 3, 2024]
“You realize what, folks don’t love her. No one likes her. She might by no means be the primary lady president. She might by no means be. That might be an insult to our nation.” [Sept. 8, 2020]
“Very, very nasty … the meanest, probably the most horrible, most disrespectful of anyone within the U.S. Senate.” [Aug. 11, 2020]
On “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin
“That’s one dumb lady. Sorry. I am sorry, girls, she’s a dummy.” [October 9, 2024]
On “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg
“She was so filthy, soiled, disgusting. She was so soiled. Each phrase was filthy, soiled. What a loser she is.” [October 9, 2024]
On Fulton County, Georgia, District Lawyer Fani Willis
“She was out of her thoughts.” [Jan. 9, 2024]
On Home Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi
“She’s turned on him like a canine. She’s as loopy as a mattress bug.” [July 20, 2024]
“We’ll stand as much as loopy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anyone know?” [September 29, 2023]
On Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“This isn’t even a wise particular person, aside from she’s bought a great line of stuff. I imply, she goes out and he or she yaps.” [Aug. 14, 2020]
On Stormy Daniels
“Horseface.” [Oct. 16, 2018]
“I by no means favored horseface. That would not be the one.” [March 25, 2023]
On the #MeToo motion
“It’s a very scary time for younger males in America, the place you will be responsible of one thing you will not be responsible of…” [Oct. 2, 2018]
“You have to deny, deny, deny and push again on these girls. For those who admit to something and any culpability, then you definately’re useless. … You have to be robust. You have to be aggressive. You have to push again laborious. You have to deny something that is mentioned about you. By no means admit.” [Via Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White House”]
On Omarosa Manigault Newman
“A crazed, crying lowlife” and a “canine.” [Aug. 14, 2018]
On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
“A very low IQ particular person.” [June 25, 2018]
On Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
“[S]omeone who would come to my workplace ‘begging’ for marketing campaign contributions not so way back (and would do something for them).” [Dec. 12, 2017]
On French first girl Brigitte Macron
“You realize, you are in such fine condition. Stunning.” [July 13, 2017]
On Mika Brzezinski
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (do not watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Loopy Mika, together with Psycho Joe, got here to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row round New Yr’s Eve, and insisted on becoming a member of me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I mentioned no!” [June 29, 2017]
On Hillary Clinton
“Such a nasty lady.” [Oct. 19, 2016]
“If she had been a person, I do not suppose she’d get 5 % of the vote.” [April 26, 2016]
“If Hillary Clinton cannot fulfill her husband, what makes her suppose she will be able to fulfill America?” [April 16, 2015]
On Jessica Leeds (who accused Trump of assault in 1979)
“She wouldn’t have been the chosen one.” [September 7, 2024]
On Carly Fiorina
“Have a look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Are you able to think about that, the face of our subsequent president? I imply, she’s a girl, and I am not purported to say dangerous issues, however actually, people, come on. Are we critical?” [Sept. 9, 2015]
On Heidi Klum
“Sadly, she’s not a ten.” [Aug. 15, 2015]
On Megyn Kelly
“She will get out and he or she begins asking me all kinds of ridiculous questions. You would see there was blood popping out of her eyes, blood popping out of her… wherever.” [Aug. 7, 2015]
“Bimbo.” [Aug. 7, 2015]
On Kim Kardashian
Requested if her butt is huge: “Nicely, completely. It is record-setting. Within the previous days, they’d say she has a nasty physique.” [June 18, 2014]
“Does she have a great physique? No. Does she have a fats ass? Completely.” [Feb. 6, 2013]
On Beyoncé
“When Beyoncé was thrusting her hips ahead in a really suggestive method, if another person would have accomplished that it might have been a nationwide scandal. I believed it was ridiculous … I believed it was not applicable.” [February 2013]
On Jessica Chastain
“She’s definitely not scorching.” [February 2013]
On Cher
“I promise to not speak about your large plastic surgical procedures that did not work.” [Nov. 13, 2012]
On Bette Midler
“@BetteMidler talks about my hair however I am not allowed to speak about her ugly face or physique — so I will not. Is that this a double commonplace?” [Oct. 28, 2012]
Two minutes later: “Whereas @BetteMidler is a particularly unattractive lady, I refuse to say that as a result of I at all times insist on being politically appropriate.” [Oct. 28, 2012]
On Arianna Huffington
“Unattractive each inside and outside. I totally perceive why her former husband left her for a person — he made a great choice.” [Aug. 28, 2012]
On Angelina Jolie
“Angelina Jolie is form of wonderful as a result of everybody thinks she’s like this nice magnificence. And I am not saying she’s an unattractive lady, however she’s not a magnificence, by any stretch of the creativeness.” [October 2007]
“I bear in mind on the Academy Awards a couple of years in the past she was frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I by no means noticed earlier than in my life. And he or she had simply mentioned she made like to Billy Bob Thornton behind the limousine on the best way over. And I would not need to shake her hand, by the best way.” [October 2007]
On Rosie O’Donnell
“We’re all a little bit chubby however Rosie’s simply worse than most of us. But it surely’s not the chubbiness — Rosie is a really unattractive particular person, each inside and outside.” [2006]
“Rosie’s an individual who’s very fortunate to have her girlfriend and he or she higher watch out or I am going to ship certainly one of my buddies over to choose up her girlfriend. Why would she stick with Rosie if she had one other alternative?” [2006]
“If I had been working ‘The View,’ I would fireplace Rosie O’Donnell. I imply, I would take a look at her proper in that fats, ugly face of hers, I would say, ‘Rosie, you are fired.'” [2006]
On Taylor Swift
“I hate Taylor Swift.” [September 5, 2024]
“She’s a really liberal particular person. She appears to at all times endorse a Democrat. And he or she’ll in all probability pay a value for it […] within the market.” [September 11, 2024]
On his daughter Ivanka Trump
When requested if Ivanka, then 24, had breast implants: “She’s really at all times been very voluptuous.” [2006]
“She does have a really good determine … if [she] weren’t my daughter, maybe I would be courting her.” [June 4, 2004]
On his spouse Melania Trump
When requested if he would keep along with her if she was disfigured in a automotive crash: “How do the breasts look?” [April 11, 2005]
On Nancy O’Dell
“I moved on her really. You realize she was down on Palm Seashore. I moved on her and I failed. I am going to admit it. I did attempt to f–k her. She was married.” [2005]
On Lindsay Lohan
“What do you consider Lindsay Lohan? There’s one thing there, proper? However it’s a must to like freckles. I’ve seen a close-up of her chest. And loads of freckles. Are you into freckles? … She’s in all probability deeply troubled, and subsequently nice in mattress. How come the deeply troubled girls — deeply, deeply troubled — they’re at all times one of the best in mattress?” [2004]
On Steffi Graf
“You by no means get to the face as a result of the physique’s so good.” [Sept. 23, 2004]
On Paris Hilton
“Now, any person who lots of people do not give credit score to however genuinely is admittedly lovely is Paris Hilton. I’ve recognized Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her dad and mom are buddies of mine, and the primary time I noticed her she walked into the room and I mentioned, ‘Who the hell is that?'” [2003]
On Princess Diana
Three weeks after her demise, Trump was requested if he might have “nailed” Princess Diana: “I believe I might have.” [1997]
On his daughter Tiffany Trump
“Nicely, I believe that she’s bought loads of Marla. She’s a very lovely child, and he or she’s bought Marla’s legs.” Motioning to his chest, Trump added: “We do not know whether or not she’s bought this half but, however time will inform.” [1994]
On girls of ‘The Apprentice’
To a contestant on “The Apprentice:” “That have to be a fairly image, you dropping to your knees.” [2013]
“All the girls on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That is to be anticipated.” [2004]
“It is definitely not groundbreaking information that the early victories by the ladies on ‘The Apprentice’ had been, to a really giant extent, depending on their intercourse attraction.” [2004]
On girls he is been in relationships with
Requested whether or not he is had intercourse with a Black lady: “Nicely, it relies on what your definition of Black is.” [2005]
“You realize, it would not actually matter what [the media] writes so long as you’ve got bought a younger and exquisite piece of ass.” [1991]
His ideas on girls basically
“I mentioned, ‘Nicely, I’m going to do it. Whether or not the ladies prefer it or not, I’m going to guard them.'” [October 30, 2024]
“I believe girls like me as a result of I will likely be your protector. The ladies need safety. They do not need these folks pouring in.” [October 11, 2024]
“I saved your suburbs — girls, suburban girls, you are supposed to like Trump!” [Oct. 18, 2020]
To a feminine reporter: “Let’s imagine, politically appropriate, that look would not matter, however the look clearly issues. Such as you would not have your job when you weren’t lovely.” [2014]
“26,000 unreported sexual assaults within the navy — solely 238 convictions. What did these geniuses count on once they put males & girls collectively?” [May 7, 2013]
“I’ve bought to make use of some Tic Tacs, simply in case I begin kissing her. You realize I am mechanically drawn to lovely — I simply begin kissing them. It is like a magnet. Simply kiss. I do not even wait. And once you’re a star, they allow you to do it. You are able to do something … Seize them by the pussy. You are able to do something.” [2005]
“I believe the one distinction between me and the opposite candidates is that I am extra trustworthy and my girls are extra lovely.” [Nov. 17, 1999]
“There’s nothing I really like greater than girls, however they’re actually lots completely different than portrayed. They’re far worse than males, way more aggressive, and boy, can they be sensible!” [1997]
“Ladies have one of many nice acts of all time. The sensible ones act very female and needy, however inside they’re actual killers. The one who got here up with the expression ‘the weaker intercourse’ was both very naive or needed to be kidding. I’ve seen girls manipulate males with only a twitch of their eye — or maybe one other physique half.” [1997]
His ideas on how he treats girls
“No one has extra respect for girls than I do. No one. No one has extra respect.” [Oct. 19, 2016]
