During the debate last night, Hillary Clinton mentioned Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe pageant women who Donald Trump "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeper." He repeatedly humiliated her over the course of a year, at one point inviting media crews to watch as he made her work out in front of the television cameras:
Private scolding was apparently insufficient. Mr. Trump, at the time an executive producer of the pageant, insisted on accompanying Ms. Machado, then a teenager, to a gym, where dozens of reporters and cameramen watched as she exercised.
Mr. Trump, in his trademark suit and tie, posed for photographs beside her as she burned calories in front of the news media. “This is somebody who likes to eat,” Mr. Trump said from inside the gym.
Machado says the shame and humiliation cause her to develop eating disorders:
“I was sick — anorexia and bulimia for five years,” she said in an interview with The New York Times in May. “I was 18. My personality wasn’t created yet. I was just a girl.”
This is the very fit looking Alicia Machado during that humiliating workout session:
Moving on to other women on Donald Trump’s radar, the Republican nominee was on the Howard Stern Show in 2003 and shared a rather icky description of his own daughter after host Howard Stern asked him to name the “three hottest chicks” he’d ever seen. From Mother Jones:
In 2003, Trump went on Stern's radio show, and the discussion was the usual fare. Stern discussed having hot-tub oral sex with Melania, Trump's wife-to-be. Trump bragged that he could estimate a woman's weight within half a pound. Stern asked Trump to name the "three hottest chicks you've seen." Stern declared that Jennifer Lopez couldn't be on the list because "her ass is too fat." Trump replied, "You know, I really like J. Lo, but that ass is…" Trump then asked," Do you really want me to do this?" Of course Stern did. "I'm very, very good at it," Trump said. And he cited Keira Knightley, Paris Hilton, and his daughter Ivanka. He noted that he had watched Hilton's sex video.
Icky, right?
And then there was this comment:
“You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body. She made a lot money as a model—a tremendous amount.”
What dad talks about his own daughter that way? It’s bizarre and utterly creepy.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there. In 2006, he told The View he caused jaws to drop when he said "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, I'd be dating her":
And then there is the creepy way he greeted her on stage, in front a national audience, at the Republican National Convention:
And then there is this conversation, again with Howard Stern, about his current wife Melania Trump. Also from Mother Jones:
In 2005, Trump was back on Stern's radio show. The conversation ranged toward the juvenile, and at one point Stern asked Trump if he would still love Melania if she were disfigured in a horrible car accident. Trump replied, "How do the breasts look?" Stern said that in this scenario the breasts were not injured, and Trump responded, "Okay, well that's important." He did say he would "stay with her 100 percent." (It was during this interview that Trump said he wouldn't take care of any kids Melania would have; he'd just pay for them.)
Is this really a person we want representing the approximately 157 million women in the United States? Someone who thinks of women as nothing more than trophies and toys? Hell. No. And that is why you need to click below (and share with all the women you know) to verify you are registered to vote and then get to the polls and put an end to our long, national creepy nightmare.
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