WP: Trump recorded being a lewd, sexist pig (Poss. Trigger?)

[One Girl In All The World]

ETA: The actual video with the recording is at the link

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005

Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone — saying that “when you’re a star, they let you do it” — according to a video obtained by The Washington Post.

The video captures Trump talking with Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood” on a bus with Access Hollywood written across the side. They were arriving on the set of “Days of Our Lives” to tape a segment about Trump’s upcoming cameo on the soap opera.

The tape obtained by the Post includes audio of Bush and Trump’s conversation inside the bus, as well as audio and video once they emerge from it to begin shooting the segment.

In that audio, Trump discusses a failed attempt to seduce a woman, whose full name is not given in the video.

“I moved on her and I failed. I’ll admit it,” Trump is heard saying. It was unclear when the events he was describing took place. The tape was recorded several months after he married his third wife, Melania.

“Whoa,” another voice said.

“I did try and f--- her. She was married,” Trump says.

Trump continues: “And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.’”

“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married,” Trump says. “Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.”

At that point in the audio, Trump and Bush appear to notice Arianne Zucker, the actress who is waiting to escort them into the soap opera set.

“Your girl’s hot as s---, in the purple,” says Bush, who’s now a co-host of NBC’s “Today” show.

“Whoa!” Trump says. “Whoa!”

“I’ve gotta use some tic tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says.“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,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

“Whatever you want,” says another voice, apparently Bush’s.

“Grab them by the p---y,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

A spokeswoman for NBC Universal, which produces and distributes “Access Hollywood,” declined comment.

“This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course - not even close,” Trump said in a statement. “I apologize if anyone was offended.”

The tape appears at a time when Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sought to make a campaign issue out of his opponent’s marriage. Trump has criticized former President Bill Clinton for his past infidelity, and criticized opponent Hillary Clinton as her husband’s “enabler.”

“Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics,” Trump told the New York Times in a recent interview. “Hillary was an enabler, and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I think it’s a serious problem for them, and it’s something that I’m considering talking about more in the near future.”

Trump carried on a very public affair with Marla Maples — his eventual second wife — while still married to first wife Ivana Trump.

Trump has been criticized in this campaign for derogatory and lewd comments about women, including some made on TV and live radio. In an interview Wednesday with KSNV-TV, a Las Vegas television station, Trump said that those comments were made for entertainment.

“A lot of that was done for the purpose of entertainment. There’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do,” he told the station.

“Are you trying to tone it down now?” asked the interviewer, Jim Snyder.

“It’s not a question of trying, it’s very easy,” said Trump.

The tape obtained by The Post seems to have captured Trump in a private moment, with no audience beyond Bush and a few others on the bus. It appears to have been shot around September 16, 2005, which was the day press reports said Trump would tape his soap-opera cameo.

The video shows the bus carrying Trump and Bush turning down a street on the studio backlot. The two men cannot be seen.

“Oh, nice legs, huh?” Trump says.

“Oof, get out of the way, honey,” Bush says, apparently referencing somebody else blocking the view of Zucker.

The two men then exit the bus, and greet Zucker.

“We’re ready, let’s go,” Trump says, after the initial greetings. “Make me a soap star.”

“How about a little hug for the Donald?” Bush says. “He just got off the bus.”

“Would you like a little hug, darling?” Zucker says.

“Absolutely,” Trump says. As they embrace, and air-kiss, Trump says, “Melania said this was okay.”

The video then follows Trump, Bush and Zucker into the studio. Trump did appear on Days of Our Lives, in late October. In a tape of that cameo posted online, Zucker’s character asks Trump — playing himself — for a job at his business, and tells him suggestively, “I think you’ll find I’m a very willing employee. Working under you, I think, could be mutually beneficial.”

Trump’s character gives her the brushoff.

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“That’s an interesting proposition,” Trump says onscreen. “I’ll get back to you.”

A publicist for Zucker did not immediately respond to questions on Friday afternoon.

In a 2005 interview on the TV show “Soap Talk,” posted online, host Lisa Rinna asked Zucker if Trump was cute.

“He is so cute and charming,” Zucker said. “You just don’t look above...” she said, and motioned to her hairline.

Rosalind S. Helderman and Sarah Parnass contributed to this report.

[chedifuen]

HOLY SHIT! Why is all of this just surfacing now?

[Jalapeñomel]

I'm sure this will make absolutely zero impact on his campaign. Trump supporters just KOKO.

[jlt19]

And there he is turning it around on the Clinton's.

[noeliav]

Oct 7, 2016 15:28:56 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I'm sure this will make absolutely zero impact on his campaign. Trump supporters just KOKO.

I agree.
He is absolutely VILE though 

[W.T.Faulkner]

COLOR ME MOTHERFUCKING SURPRISED.

I swear to God, I want to meet every female Trump supporter, make them read this shit back to me, and then ask them why their ass should enjoy their 19th Amendment right. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON IS ROLLING AROUND IN HER FUCKING GRAVE BECAUSE YOU ARE ACTIVELY CHOOSING TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO HATES YOU.

[cinderbella]

Oh. My. God.

Not that any of this is a surprise, but what a disgusting shit pig.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

"Greatest abuser of women in politics"? Has he literally never cracked a history book?

(and yes, that is what stuck out to me, because there isn't a damn word in the rest of the article that surprises me) 

[JLV]

Fuck, this is disgusting.

But you know what his supporters will say Predictable deplorables.

[One Girl In All The World]

Oct 7, 2016 15:30:55 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

COLOR ME MOTHERFUCKING SURPRISED.

I swear to God, I want to meet every female Trump supporter, make them read this shit back to me, and then ask them why their ass should enjoy their 19th Amendment right. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON IS ROLLING AROUND IN HER FUCKING GRAVE BECAUSE YOU ARE ACTIVELY CHOOSING TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO HATES YOU.

I am stealing this

[OscarQ]

NBC is so f'd if they still think they count as journalists after this election. The catering to Trump, the Matt Lauer fiasco and now you've got a contributor who had this conversation with Trump and yet we're just finding out about it now.

I bet the real journalists at NBC are prepping their resumes as quickly as possible.

[bellejar]

Well, this is more fodder for the debate. If only this came out before Kaine went in!

[gretchenindisguise]

"All guys talk like this. You can't take it seriously."

--is what I hypothesize everyone Trump supporter (male and female) will say.

[Champagne Supernova]

[lulu13]

I pray all of the major news outlets pick this up.
Definitely EXACTLY how I imagined he'd talk behind closed doors. Wasn't he married to Melania at this time?

[eclaires]

This is...worse than I expected. I'm not sure what I expected but I am more surprised than I thought I'd be.

[silva]

Oct 7, 2016 15:30:55 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

COLOR ME MOTHERFUCKING SURPRISED.

I swear to God, I want to meet every female Trump supporter, make them read this shit back to me, and then ask them why their ass should enjoy their 19th Amendment right. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON IS ROLLING AROUND IN HER FUCKING GRAVE BECAUSE YOU ARE ACTIVELY CHOOSING TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO HATES YOU.

Listen to Linda.


www.npr.org/2016/10/07/496984843/ohio-voter-would-like-a-female-president-just-not-hillary-clinton

[One Girl In All The World]

Oct 7, 2016 15:40:40 GMT -5 lulu13 said:

I pray all of the major news outlets pick this up.
Definitely EXACTLY how I imagined he'd talk behind closed doors. Wasn't he married to Melania at this time?

MSNBC already posted on FB with a story. Here's hoping it blows UP.

[isabel]

My mom just sent me this. I texted back, "that's the guy my dad is voting for! I'm so proud!"

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 15:37:42 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

"All guys talk like this. You can't take it seriously."

--is what I hypothesize everyone Trump supporter (male and female) will say.

Trump's statement said it was just "locker room talk". I'm sure his supporters will parrot that like good little sexist followers. 

[lulu13]

Yes!! It's on CNN!!

[katietornado]

Oct 7, 2016 15:42:42 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Oct 7, 2016 15:37:42 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

"All guys talk like this. You can't take it seriously."

--is what I hypothesize everyone Trump supporter (male and female) will say.

Trump's statement said it was just "locker room talk". I'm sure his supporters will parrot that like good little sexist followers. 

Nope.

Look I know people have bad moments.  I've said nasty things before.  We all have.  But nothing like this.  And I can guarantee you my 65-year-old father has never NEVER once in his life spoken this way.

Stop being such a disgusting shitpig with a million excuses and just own your disgusting behavior, you asshole.

[JLV]

Oh, and fuck Billy Bush.

[isabel]

Oct 7, 2016 15:41:26 GMT -5 eclaires said:

This is...worse than I expected. I'm not sure what I expected but I am more surprised than I thought I'd be.

I'm surprised by how little impact this is having on me. Like, I'm kind of surprised other people are acting like this is any more vile than anything else he has said or done. My takeaway is that I really need for this election to be over and to never hear another word about Trump for as long as I live, because clearly I am way too entrenched in the awful things this man says and does.

[shortstax]

Ewwwww.

PS - how do I post tweets in a thread?

[JLV]

Apparently Billy Bush deleted his Twitter.

[silva]

Oct 7, 2016 15:50:34 GMT -5 JLV said:

Apparently Billy Bush deleted his Twitter.

I was looking for him. I hope they fire him.

[lulu13]

I'm dying to see his surrogates defend this.

[JLV]

And my husband wants a divorce. I posted the link to this story on FB and his comment was "Should we look at the past acts of HC's husband?"

You officially sleeping outside, mofo.

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 15:47:22 GMT -5 katietornado said:

Oct 7, 2016 15:42:42 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Trump's statement said it was just "locker room talk". I'm sure his supporters will parrot that like good little sexist followers. 

Nope.

Look I know people have bad moments.  I've said nasty things before.  We all have.  But nothing like this.  And I can guarantee you my 65-year-old father has never NEVER once in his life spoken this way.

Stop being such a disgusting shitpig with a million excuses and just own your disgusting behavior, you asshole.

He also claimed Bill Clinton has said worse on the golf course (yes in his official statement he brought up Bill Clinton). All I could think was - Bill Clinton doesn't have to brag. His reputation is pretty well known. Also - HE'S NOT THE ONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!