‘The face of a dog!’ Donald Trump’s history of misogyny goes way back
HE’S been busted using the Trump Rule to classify women, and even Angelina Jolie has been a target. Here are some of Donald Trump’s worst offences.
HE denies his suggesting a female journalist who grilled him during Friday’s US Republican debate was hormonal, but Donald Trump’s list of sexist remarks is long.
Here’s a look at some of the lowlights:
“I’d look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers”
Okay, let’s get this out of the way first. There’s no love lost between the New York real estate mogul and TV comedian Rosie O’Donnell, whose spat began in 2006 when Trump refused to dethrone a Miss USA winner who was outed as a drug user. O’Donnell, then a panellist on The View, questioned his decision, calling him a “snake-oil salesman” and criticising his multiple marriages. In response, Trump came out of the gate.
“Rosie O’Donnell is disgusting — both inside and out. If you take a look at her, she’s a slob,” he later told Entertainment Tonight in a tirade that had to be heavily edited for air.
“How does she even get on television? If I were running The View, I’d fire Rosie. I’d look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, ‘Rosie, you’re fired.’ 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.”
The feud has raged for years. After O’Donnell announced her engagement to her same-sex partner in 2011, Trump tweeted: “I feel sorry for Rosie ‘s new partner in love whose parents are devastated at the thought of their daughter being with @Rosie — a true loser.”
“You know, it doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of [expletive].”
Trump shares his business philosophy 1991 in an interview with Esquire magazine.
“I’m not saying she’s an unattractive woman, but she’s not beauty”
Speaking about an unrelated mater about Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s father in 2006, Trump decided to give CNN his unsolicited assessment of her looks — and it wasn’t favourable.
“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. 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.”
“The Face of a Dog!”
New York Times columnist Gail Collins felt Trump’s wrath after referring to him in print as a “financially embattled thousandaire”. He responded by sending her a copy of the column, with her face circled and annotated: “The Face of a Dog!”
“Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”
It was referred to by Megyn Kelly in Friday’s feisty Republican debate tete-a-tete but it occurred during the 2013 season of Celebrity Apprentice, when Trump responded to the news one contestant, Playboy model and former Baywatch actress Brande Roderick, had begged not to be fired.
Roderick has since said she doesn’t recall the incident, but you can watch the creepy exchange here.
“He asked the men to rate the women”
Also on The Apprentice, when two contestants were fired from the 2010 season, they gave revealing post-show interviews detailing Trump’s attitude towards women.
“So much of the boardroom discussion concerned the appearance of the female contestants — discussing the female contestants’ looks — who he found to be hot,” Former Brooklyn prosecutor Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy told the New York Post.
“He asked the men to rate the women — he went down the line and asked the guys, ‘Who’s the most beautiful on the women’s team?’ ”
A male contestant, Gene Folkes, a 46-year-old financial adviser, recalled: “I think it was most uncomfortable when he had one [female] contestant come around the board table and twirl around.”
‘The Trump Rule’
In 2009, Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean wrote in her book of a requirement for contestants to parade in front of pageant co-owner Trump, so he could “separate those he finds sexually appealing from those he does not.”
“Many of the girls found this exercise humiliating,” Prejean wrote. “Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after [Trump] left, devastated to have failed even before the competition really began ... even those of us who were among the chosen couldn’t feel very good about it — it was as though we had been stripped bare.”
TMZ claimed it had caught the mogul on tape admitting to the Trump Rule, even using it to pimp out his son to the girls who made it into the “beautiful” line.
“That’s why Miss Universe and Miss USA get such good ratings ... and that is why Miss America is off the air,” he later said.
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