‘Visible disgust’: Bombshell book exposes Donald Trump’s creepy Ivanka comments
An explosive new book claims former US president Donald Trump made a series of inappropriate comments about his own teenage daughter.
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Donald Trump made lewd remarks about his daughter Ivanka’s appearance and wondered “what it might be like to have sex with her”, a new book about life inside his White House administration reveals.
Former chief of staff of Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor makes the claim in his soon-to-be-released book Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.
Taylor describes what he calls “naked sexism” towards female advisors and staff members. And he says one of Trump’s many chiefs-of-staff, John Kelly, felt compelled to intervene during a ribald rant.
“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor writes.
“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man’.”
Trump was famously caught on tape in 2005 claiming that he could grab women “by the p***y”, stating that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything”.
It is not the first time Trump has been accused of focusing on the sexuality of his daughter.
A photo taken in 1996 with his then 15-year-old daughter showed the apparently braless Ivanka sitting on his lap with a statue of two parrots appearing to engage in intercourse in the foreground.
A year later, as the 16-year-old Ivanka hosted the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, he reportedly told the then Miss Universe: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”
In a 2006 talk show appearance, he said: “She does have a very nice figure. If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. Isn’t that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?”
At about the same time, he told radio host Howard Stern, “She’s actually always been very voluptuous”. He added it was okay to call her a “piece of ass”.
In 2015, he told Rolling Stone that Ivanka was “a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father …”
The book’s release comes shortly after a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing — but not raping — journalist Jean Carroll.
Carroll said Trump attacked her in a store changing room in the 1990s. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation but Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages.
Trump is appealing and suing her for defamation over comments she made during an interview with CNN.
Several former staff members have since spoken out against his treatment of women while president.
“There still are quite a few female leaders from the Trump administration who have held their tongues about the unequal treatment they faced in the administration at best, and the absolute naked sexism they experienced with the hands of Donald Trump at worst,” Taylor told Newsweek.
He said he witnessed such behaviour during meetings with then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen.
“When we were with him, Kirstjen did her best to ignore the president’s inappropriate behaviour,” Taylor writes.
“He called her ‘sweetie’ and ‘honey’, and critiqued her makeup and outfits.”
Taylor was behind an anonymous opinion piece written for The New York Times during his term in the Whitehouse in 2018.
“I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” he declared.
He quit the Republican Party last year, accusing it of “poisoning” the minds of Americans and “going after the foundations of democracy itself”.
Jamie Seidel is a freelance writer | @JamieSeidel
Originally published as ‘Visible disgust’: Bombshell book exposes Donald Trump’s creepy Ivanka comments
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