Donald Trump is no stranger to misogynistic, unwelcome, and sexualizing comments towards women. (See: “Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”) It only comes as a slight surprise, then, that The Daily Show found a clip in which Trump talks about his infant daughter’s potential breasts.
When the clip was being produced, Noah states that the amount of footage of Trump’s sexism was nearly “endless.”
One clip, however, stood out from the rest as being particularly creepy and gross. In “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” Trump is asked which characteristics their infant child, Tiffany, had inherited from which parent. At this time, Trump was married to his second wife, Maria Maples.
Trump says:
“Well I think she’s got a lot of Marla. She’s a really beautiful baby, she’s got, uh, Marla’s legs. We don’t know if she’s got this part yet,” Trump then cups his chest to symbolize breasts, “but time will tell.”
After the clip is showed, Noah sits in stunned silence to let the visceral effect of a man talking about his infant’s potential breasts sink in.
Noah then says:
“I’ve watched that Trump clip maybe 20 times now, but every time I do, I just need to take a quick breather to remember that good things still exist in the world.”
We feel you, Noah.
These words are particularly disturbing considering Trump’s previous statements towards another one of his daughters, Ivanka Trump. In a 2015 Rolling Stone article, Trump says,
“Yeah, [Ivanka’s] really something, and what I beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married, and, you know, her father . . . “
And earlier, in 2006 while on The View, Trump stated that “if Ivanka weren’t [his] daughter, perhaps [he’d] be dating her.”
It seems no one is safe from Trump’s creepy sexualization. As Noah says, “[Trump] could have said anything [about his baby], but he went with legs, and possibly boobs?”
See the clip below, and please excuse me while go I wash my eyes and ear drums out with bleach.
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