From today’s Washington Post.
By Marc Fisher October 8 at 5:52 PM
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, already under
siege for vulgar comments
about forcing women into sex, also had crude, sexually explicit conversations
in a series of radio interviews over the past 23 years, even noting how
“voluptuous” his daughter was.
On a new batch of recordings from Howard Stern’s radio shows
aired Saturday by CNN,
Trump said that he would “have no problem” having sex with 24-year-olds, that
he “couldn’t care less” if he satisfies the women he sleeps with, that “it’s
checkout time” once women reach the age of 35 and that he had engaged in
three-way sex.
“Haven’t we all?” Trump told Stern on his SiriusXM satellite
radio show in 2008. “Are we babies?”
Trump also described barging in on nude Miss Universe beauty
pageant contestants in their dressing room, characterizing his visits as
inspections by the contest’s owner.
In previously reported tapes of Stern programs from the
1990s through this decade, Trump bantered with the host of the popular radio
raunchfest about whether he could have “nailed” Princess Diana, whether he
would stay with his wife if she were disfigured in a car crash (“How do the
breasts look?” Trump asked) and how often he had sex with his wife, Melania.
Donald Trump has a history of controversial comments about
women that began long before the 2016 election. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington
Post)
In the new collection of recordings, Trump and Stern trade
observations about the nominee’s older daughter, Ivanka. On one show 10 years
ago, Stern asked whether Ivanka Trump has breast implants, and her father said
she does not. “She’s actually always been very voluptuous,” Trump added. Ivanka
Trump was 24 at the time.
Trump was a frequent guest on Stern’s show both when it was
syndicated to FM broadcast stations across the country and in later years, when
it moved to satellite radio, where there were no barriers to how explicit the
sex talk could be.
During one of those appearances, in 2000, Melania Trump
joined her future husband on the phone and told listeners that she and Donald
“have incredible sex once a day, sometimes even more.”
The new batch of recordings, released one day after The
Washington Post published video from 2005 in which Trump makes lewd remarks
about groping women, adding to the voluminous evidence that the Republican
nominee has habitually said demeaning and vulgar things about women over the
course of decades. Trump has never denied that, but he has always argued that
such comments are meant only to entertain and are locker room banter and
therefore do not reflect his respect and love for women.
Respect was not a topic when Stern asked Trump about his
relationships with women. The radio host, whose show for many years
consisted in good part of seeing how far his interviewees would go in
describing their own sex lives and fantasies, found a ready and willing partner
in Trump, who at every turn went there.
“Look, I like sex,” Trump said. (Nothing wrong with that, I would hope we all did)
Had he had threesomes, Stern asked. Trump confirmed that he
had.
In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an
appearance on "Days of Our Lives" with actress Arianne Zucker. He is
accompanied to the set by "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush.
Would he have sex with women who were menstruating?
Affirmative. Had he had sex with a black woman? “Well, it depends on what your
definition of black is,” Trump said.
Asked in 2005 whether he’d ever had sex with contestants in
the Miss Universe contest, which he owned, Trump initially said, “I never
comment on things like that.” But when Stern pressed, asking whether Trump
would say no if a contestant sought to have sex with him, the pageant owner
said, “I don’t want to hurt their feelings.”
Might that pose a conflict of interest, asked Stern’s
longtime sidekick, Robin Quivers.
“It could be a conflict of interest,” Trump replied, “but,
you know, it’s the kind of thing you worry about later. You tend to think about
the conflict a little later on. . . .
What you could say is that, as the owner of the pageant, it’s your obligation to do that.”
Trump volunteered that as the owner, he would sometimes
wander backstage when the contestants were nude or dressing. “I’m allowed to go
in, because I’m the owner of the pageant, and therefore I’m inspecting it,” he
said.
Stern seemed especially interested in the age of the women
Trump would sleep with. In an interview in 2002, when Melania Trump was 30,
Trump called 30 “a perfect age.”
How about when a woman gets a bit older, one of Stern’s
co-hosts asked.
“What is it at 35, Howard?” Trump replied. “It’s called
checkout time.” Guffaws ensued all around.
Years earlier, in 1993, Trump told Stern in a discussion
about extramarital affairs that he was surprised to learn that the radio host
was faithful to his wife.
“I was actually faithful to my wife for many years,” Trump
said, “until I realized the marriage wasn’t gonna work.”
In 2006, Stern asked Trump whether he could “now be banging
24-year-olds?”
“Oh, absolutely,” Trump answered. “I’d have no problem.”
Asked if there was any age limit in who he might go after,
Trump said, “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.”
Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned from
the House that year following allegations that he had sent sexually explicit
messages to teenage boys who had been congressional pages. This August, Foley
sat behind Trump at a rally in Florida, in seats reserved by the Trump campaign
staff.
In one of their conversations about Trump’s daughter, Stern
complimented Ivanka Trump’s looks and asked: “Can I say this? A piece of a--.”
“Yeah,” Trump responded.
Stern once asked Trump to define “the perfect date.”
“You meet at 7 for drinks,” Trump replied. “You promise to
take her to dinner, but you never get there.”
(Marc Fisher, a senior editor, writes about most anything.
He’s been The Post’s enterprise editor, local columnist and Berlin bureau
chief, and he’s covered politics, education, pop culture, and much else in
three decades on the Metro, Style, National and Foreign desks.)
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