Here are 61 things the president of the United States has said about women.
On Halle Berry
1. “I love her … upper body.” [February 2013]
On Beyoncé
2. “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]
On Carly Fiorina
3. “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]
4. “Why does she keep interrupting everybody?” [Nov. 10, 2015]
On Jessica Chastain
5. “She’s certainly not hot.” [February 2013]
On Stormy Daniels
6. “Horseface” [Oct. 16, 2018]
On Cher
7. “Cher is somewhat of a loser. She’s lonely. She’s unhappy. She’s very miserable.” [May 12, 2012]
8. “I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work.” [Nov. 13, 2012]
On Mika Brzezinski
9. “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]
On Hillary Clinton
10. “If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?” [April 16, 2015]
11. “She got schlonged.” [Dec. 21, 2015]
12. On Clinton taking a bathroom break at a Democratic debate: “I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it … No, it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting.” [Dec. 21, 2015]
13. “If she were a man, I don’t think she’d get five percent of the vote.” [April 26, 2016]
14. “Does she look presidential, fellas? Give me a break.” [Sept. 6, 2016]
15. “Such a nasty woman.” [Oct. 19, 2016]
On Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
16. “[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]
On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
17. “An extraordinarily low IQ person.” [June 25, 2018]
On French first lady Brigitte Macron
18. “You know, you’re in such good shape. Beautiful.” [July 13, 2017]
On Steffi Graf
19. “You never get to the face because the body’s so good.” [Sept. 23, 2004]
On Paris Hilton
20. “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]
On Arianna Huffington
21. “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]
On Omarosa Manigault-Newman
22. “A crazed, crying lowlife” and a “dog.” [Aug. 14, 2018]
On Angelina Jolie
23. “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]
24. “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]
25. “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]
On Kim Kardashian
26. “Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.” [Feb. 6, 2013]
27. 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]
On Megyn Kelly
28. “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]
29. “Bimbo.” [Aug. 7, 2015]
On Heidi Klum
30. “Sadly, she’s no longer a 10.” [Aug. 15, 2015]
On Lindsay Lohan
31. “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]
On Rosie O’Donnell
32. “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]
33. “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]
34. “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]
35. “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]
On Bette Midler
36. “.@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]
37. 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]
On the #MeToo movement
38. “It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. … Women are doing great.” [Oct. 2, 2018]
39. “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.” [Via Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House]
On Princess Diana
40. Three weeks after her death, Trump was asked if he could have “nailed” Princess Diana: “I think I could have.” [1997]
On Kristen Stewart
41. “Robert 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]
On Ivanka Trump, his daughter
42. “She does have a very nice figure … if [she] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” [June 4, 2004]
43. When asked if Ivanka, then 24, had breast implants: “She’s actually always been very voluptuous.” [2006]
On Melania Trump, his wife
44. When asked if he would stay with her if she was disfigured in a car crash: “How do the breasts look?” [April 11, 2005]
On Tiffany Trump, his daughter
45. “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]
On Nancy O’Dell
46. “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-ck her. She was married.” [2005]
On the women of The Apprentice
47. “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” [2004]
48. “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]
49. To a contestant on The Apprentice: “That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.” [2013]
On women he has relationships with
50. “You know, it doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” [1991]
51. On whether he’s had sex with a black woman: “Well, it depends on what your definition of black is.” [2005]
52. “I’d have no problem” sleeping with 24-year-olds. (Trump was 60 at the time.) [2006]
53. “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.” [2006]
54. “Oftentimes when I was sleeping with one of the top women in the world I would say to myself, thinking about me as a boy from Queens, ‘Can you believe what I am getting?'” [2008]
On women, generally
55. “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]
56. “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]
57. ‘”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]
58. “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]
59. 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]
60. “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.” [2005]
61. “Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody. Nobody has more respect.” [Oct. 19, 2016]
This article was originally published on Oct. 21, 2016, and was last updated on Oct. 16, 2018.
Source: THE WEEK