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Compiled by The Week and their political contributor Rafi Schwartz, with my thanks, and yes, a little bit of pure disgust because…WTAF?!***With a few edits for clarity and length.
During his second term in office, Donald Trump has gone out of his way to frame himself as the embodiment of a certain form of hypermasculinity and defender of classical gender norms. It is through this paradigm that the White House has so aggressively sought to limit transgender rights, purge the military of “woke” ideology and emphasize physical fitness as a matter of national security. But to fully appreciate Donald Trump’s view on the opposite sex, both in general and person-specific, there is no better Rosetta Stone than his own long and well-documented remarks on the many women in his life.
Re: Kamala Harris “Do you want to lose your life savings because we put a weak and foolish woman in the White House?” and “She is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions.” and “Lyin’ Kamala, who is being exposed as a ‘dummy’ every time she does a show.” and, “Kamala is mentally impaired.” Also: “Retarded.”
“They put her in, and she somehow — a woman — somehow she’s doing better than Biden did.” and…“I am much better looking than Kamala Harris.” And then, “She was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bum. A failed vice president in a failed administration.”
“She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic. She’s so fu*king bad.” As well as, “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.”
And, finally, from prior to her VP role: “Very, very nasty … the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate.”
On Marjorie Taylor Green: Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person.”
On The New York Times’ Katie Rogers
“The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.”
On CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
“I’ve known you for 10 years. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a smile on your face. You know why you’re not smiling? Because you know you’re not telling the truth.”
On Bloomberg News’ Catherine Lucey
“Quiet piggy.”
On “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin
“That is one dumb woman. Sorry. I’m sorry, women, she’s a dummy.”
On “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg
“She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting. She was so dirty. Every word was filthy, dirty. What a loser she is.”
On Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis
“She was out of her mind.”
On House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi
“She’s turned on him like a dog. She’s as crazy as a bed bug.”
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?”
On 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.”
On Stormy Daniels
“Horseface.”
“I never liked horseface. That wouldn’t be the one.”
On the #MeToo movement
“It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of…”
“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead. … You’ve got to be strong. You’ve got to be aggressive. You’ve got to push back hard. You’ve got to deny anything that’s said about you. Never admit.”
On 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.”
On Jessica Chastain
“She’s certainly not hot.”
On Cher
“I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work.”
On 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?”
Two minutes later: “While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.”
On Arianna Huffington
“Unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man — he made a good decision.”
On 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 a beauty, by any stretch of the imagination.”
“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.“
On Rosie O’Donnell
“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.”
“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?”
“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.'”
On Omarosa Manigault Newman
“A crazed, crying lowlife” and a “dog.”
On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
“An extraordinarily low IQ person.”
On 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).”
On French first lady Brigitte Macron
“You know, you’re in such good shape. Beautiful.”
On 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!”
On Hillary Clinton
“Such a nasty woman.”
“If she were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote.”
“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?”
On Jessica Leeds (who accused Trump of assault in 1979)
“She would not have been the chosen one.”
On 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?”
On Heidi Klum
“Sadly, she’s no longer a 10.”
On 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.”
“Bimbo.”
On 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.”
“Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.”
On Taylor Swift
“I hate Taylor Swift.”
“She’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat. And she’ll probably pay a price for it […] in the marketplace.”
On his daughter Ivanka Trump
When asked if Ivanka, then 24, had breast implants: “She’s actually always been very voluptuous.”
“She does have a very nice figure … if [she] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
On 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?”
On 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.”
On 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?”
On Steffi Graf
“You never get to the face because the body’s so good.”
On 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?'”
On Princess Diana
Three weeks after her death, Trump was asked if he could have “nailed” Princess Diana: “I think I could have.”
On 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.”
On women of ‘The Apprentice’
To a contestant on “The Apprentice:” “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
“All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”
“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.”
On women he’s been in relationships with
Asked whether he’s had sex with a Black woman: “Well, it depends on what your definition of Black is.”
“You know, it doesn’t really matter what [the media] writes as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”
His thoughts on women in general
“I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it. Whether the women like it or not, I’m going to protect them.'”
“I think women like me because I will be your protector. The women want protection. They don’t want these people pouring in.”
“I saved your suburbs — women, suburban women, you’re supposed to love Trump!”
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.”
“26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military — only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”
“I’ve got to 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. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
“I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”
“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!”
“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.”
His thoughts on how he treats women:
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody. Nobody has more respect.”