Trump “repeatedly made lewd comments about a camerawoman he said had a nice rear, comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka.”
More than 20 former crew members, contestants, and editors of “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice” in interviews with the Associated Press paint a picture of Donald Trump’ rampant sexism, degradation of women, and inappropriate sexual remarks.
Trump, according to the AP, “repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with.”
Some former crew members said the reality TV show host and real estate mogul, the AP reports, “repeatedly made lewd comments about a camerawoman he said had a nice rear, comparing her beauty to that of his daughter, Ivanka.”
Rebecca Arndt, a camera assistant, “said Trump would stop production to make comments about the camera operator’s looks in front of the crew.”
“I remember being in the foyer once with eight or 10 cameras set up and he said something about her being so pretty,” Arndt said. “He would make it about his line of sight, like ‘There is a beautiful woman behind that camera, so I only want to look at that.’ It was supposed to be considered a compliment, but of course it was inappropriate.”
She said Trump “would just mention it all the time. I remember him comparing Ivanka to her and saying that only Ivanka was prettier,” the AP reports.
One contestant, who won in 2005, Randal Pinkett, said Trump, who was married, talked about the female contestants he wanted to have sex with. “He was like ‘Isn’t she hot, check her out,’ kind of gawking, something to the effect of ‘I’d like to hit that.'”
A crew member said Trump asked male contestants if they would have sex with one of the female contestants.
“We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task, and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, ‘You’d f… her, wouldn’t you? I’d f… her. C’mon, wouldn’t you?'”
Another crew member echoed that claim:
“If there was a break in the conversation, he would then look at one of the female cast members, saying ‘you’re looking kind of hot today, I love that dress on you,’ then he would turn to one of the male cast members and say ‘wouldn’t you sleep with her?’ and then everyone would laugh,” said a former crew member who spoke on condition of anonymity because of a non-disclosure agreement. “There would be about 10 or 12 cameras rolling and getting that footage, which is why everybody was like, this guy just doesn’t care.”
The AP’s report comes after a week of Trump attacking Alicia Machado, the former Miss Universe who says Trump degraded her by calling her “Miss Piggy,” and degraded her heritage by calling her “Miss Housekeeping.” Trump’s fury over Hillary Clinton attacking him with his remarks about Machado during last week’s presidential debate grew until he, during a Twitter rant that began around 3 AM Friday morning, told Americans to watch Machado’s “sex tape,” the existence of which has been debunked.
While most of the comments were unrecorded or recorded but never made it into the shows that aired, there’s this clip:
The Trump campaign denies the accusations but “declined to answer specific questions.”
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