Final yr, almost 20 years after he’d accosted creator E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan division retailer dressing room, a New York jury dominated former President Donald Trump was chargeable for sexual abuse, battery, and defamation in opposition to his sufferer, and ordered him to pay 5 million {dollars} in damages. The decision was knowledgeable in no small half by Trump’s public feedback in regards to the incident, which he emphatically denied by claiming Carroll was merely not his “sort.” In the future after Carroll received her lawsuit, the previous president appeared on CNN, the place he denounced Carroll as a “whack job” whose winnings had been a “rigged deal” in opposition to him. Carroll, in response, sued Trump once more, this time for ten million {dollars}.
Though Trump’s feedback are maybe his costliest remarks pertaining to ladies, they’re removed from alone. Listed below are simply among the questionable, offensive, and overtly sexist issues the previous president has mentioned about ladies:
On Vice President Kamala Harris
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“They put her in, and she or he someway — a girl — someway she’s doing higher than [President Joe Biden] did.” [September 18, 2024]
“She’s a Marxist. Everyone is aware of she’s a Marxist.” [September 10, 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 vice chairman in a failed administration.” [July 27, 2024]
“She’s so dangerous. She’s so pathetic. She’s so fu*king dangerous” [July 3, 2024]
“I see the identical fundamental stage of competence as [President Joe Biden]. I might outline her in a really related matter that I outline him” [July 9, 2024]
“If [Biden] had picked somebody even midway competent they’d have bounced him from workplace years in the past, however they can not as a result of she’s gonna be their second selection” [July 9, 2024]
“This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her final evening, by the way in which. I assumed that wasn’t even a contest final evening. She was horrible. I do not suppose you might worsen. And completely unlikeable” [Oct. 8, 2020]
“You already know what, individuals don’t love her. No one likes her. She may by no means be the primary lady president. She may by no means be. That might be an insult to our nation.” [Sept. 8, 2020]
“Very, very nasty … the meanest, essentially the most horrible, most disrespectful of anyone within the U.S. Senate.” [Aug. 11, 2020]
On 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley
“Nimbra does not have what it takes” [Jan. 19, 2024]
“Birdbrain does not have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job” [Sept. 29, 2023]
On former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
“[GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s] China loving spouse, Coco Chao!” [Sept. 30, 2022]
On Fulton County, Georgia, District Legal professional Fani Willis
“She was out of her thoughts” [Jan. 9, 2024]
On Casey DeSantis, spouse of 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Ron DeSantis
“I do know extra about him than anyone aside from maybe his spouse, who is admittedly working his marketing campaign” [Nov. 8, 2022]
On Home Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali)
“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 sensible individual, aside from she’s bought a very good line of stuff. I imply, she goes out and she or he yaps.” [Aug. 14, 2020]
On Stormy Daniels
“Horseface” [Oct. 16, 2018]
“I by no means preferred horseface. That would not be the one. There is no such thing as a one. Now we have an incredible First Girl.” Â [March 25, 2023]
On the #MeToo motion
“It’s a very scary time for younger males in America, the place you could be responsible of one thing you is probably not responsible of. … Ladies are doing nice.” [Oct. 2, 2018]
“You have to deny, deny, deny and push again on these ladies. When you admit to something and any culpability, then you definately’re lifeless. … You have to be robust. You have to be aggressive. You have to push again onerous. 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
“An awfully low IQ individual.” [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 already know, you are in such fine condition. Lovely.” [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 12 months’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, of us, 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 she or he begins asking me all types of ridiculous questions. You could possibly 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 large: “Nicely, completely. It is record-setting. Within the outdated days, they’d say she has a nasty physique.” [June 18, 2014]
“Does she have a very good physique? No. Does she have a fats ass? Completely.” [Feb. 6, 2013]
On Halle Berry
“I like her … higher physique.” [February 2013]
On Beyoncé
“When Beyoncé was thrusting her hips ahead in a really suggestive method, if another person would have performed that it will have been a nationwide scandal. I assumed it was ridiculous … I assumed it was not applicable.” [February 2013]
On Jessica Chastain
“She’s actually 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 normal?” [Oct. 28, 2012]
Two minutes later: “Whereas @BetteMidler is an especially unattractive lady, I refuse to say that as a result of I all the time insist on being politically appropriate.” [Oct. 28, 2012]
On Kristen Stewart
“Robert [Pattinson] I am getting a whole lot of warmth for saying it is best to dump Kristen — however I am proper. When you noticed the Miss Universe ladies, you’d rethink.” [Oct. 18, 2012]
On Arianna Huffington
“Unattractive each in and out. I totally perceive why her former husband left her for a person — he made a very good choice.” [Aug. 28, 2012]
On Angelina Jolie
“Angelina Jolie is kind of superb 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 magnificence, by any stretch of the creativeness.” [October 2007]
“I actually perceive magnificence. And I’ll inform you, she’s not — I do personal Miss Universe. I do personal Miss USA. I imply I personal a whole lot of various things. I do perceive magnificence, and she or he’s not.” [October 2007]
“I keep in mind on the Academy Awards a number 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 at the back of the limousine on the way in which over. And I would not need to shake her hand, by the way in which.” [October 2007]
On Rosie O’Donnell
“Are you able to think about the mother and father of Kelli … when she mentioned, ‘Mother, Dad, I simply fell in love with an enormous, fats pig named Rosie?'” [Dec. 29, 2006]
“We’re all a bit chubby however Rosie’s simply worse than most of us. Nevertheless it’s not the chubbiness — Rosie is a really unattractive individual, each in and out.” [2006]
“Rosie’s an individual who’s very fortunate to have her girlfriend and she or he higher watch out or I will ship one in every of my buddies over to choose up her girlfriend. Why would she stick with Rosie if she had one other selection?” [2006]
“If I had been working ‘The View,’ I would fireplace Rosie O’Donnell. I imply, I would have 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 individual. She appears to all the time endorse a Democrat. And he or she’ll most likely 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 truly all the time 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 truly. You already know she was down on Palm Seashore. I moved on her and I failed. I will 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 a whole lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? … She’s most likely deeply troubled, and due to this fact nice in mattress. How come the deeply troubled ladies — deeply, deeply troubled — they’re all the time the most effective 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, anyone 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 mother and father 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 dying, Trump was requested if he may have “nailed” Princess Diana: “I feel I may have.” [1997]
On his daughter Tiffany Trump
“Nicely, I feel that she’s bought a whole lot of Marla. She’s a very lovely child, and she or he’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 ladies of ‘The Apprentice’ on the whole
To a contestant on “The Apprentice:” “That should be a fairly image, you dropping to your knees.” [2013]
“All the ladies on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That is to be anticipated.” [2004]
“It is actually not groundbreaking information that the early victories by the ladies on ‘The Apprentice’ had been, to a really massive extent, depending on their intercourse enchantment.” [2004]
On ladies he is been in relationships with
“I would haven’t any drawback” sleeping with 24-year-olds. (Trump was 60 on the time.) [2006]
“I do not need to be like Congressman Foley, with, , 12-year-olds.” [2006]
Requested whether or not he is had intercourse with a Black lady: Â “Nicely, it is determined by what your definition of Black is.” [2005]
“You already know, it does not actually matter what [the media] writes so long as you’ve got bought a younger and delightful piece of ass.” [1991]
His ideas on ladies on the whole
“I saved your suburbs — ladies, suburban ladies, you are supposed to like Trump!” [Oct. 18, 2020]
To a feminine reporter: “Lets say, politically appropriate, that look does not matter, however the look clearly issues. Such as you would not have your job if you happen to 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 & ladies collectively?” [May 7, 2013]
“Have a look at her ass” (allegation by former administration Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham) [May 9, 2023]
“I’ve bought to make use of some Tic Tacs, simply in case I begin kissing her. You already know I am routinely interested in lovely — I simply begin kissing them. It is like a magnet. Simply kiss. I do not even wait. And if 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 feel the one distinction between me and the opposite candidates is that I am extra sincere and my ladies are extra lovely.” [Nov. 17, 1999]
“There’s nothing I like greater than ladies, however they’re actually rather a lot totally 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 ladies manipulate males with only a twitch of their eye — or maybe one other physique half.” [1997]
His ideas on how he treats ladies
“No one has extra respect for girls than I do. No one. No one has extra respect.” [Oct. 19, 2016]
