Nancy French compiled it on Twitter. Herewith is an abbreviated version.
While carrying on a public extramarital affair with a former beauty queen Marla Maples, he said, ‘Not bad. Beautiful wife, beautiful girlfriend, everything beautiful. Life was a bowl of cherries,’ @RealDonaldTrump said.
During his divorce depositions with Ivana, he pled the fifth 97 times when asked about adultery. He brags about this as a savvy strategy of a powerful man unbothered by the constraints of marriage. /3
He said this about his then 1-year-old daughter Tiffany: ‘I think she’s got a lot of Marla in her. She’s a really beautiful baby and she’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet but time will tell.” [motioned to suggest breasts]
‘You know, it doesn’t really matter what [they] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass,’ @RealDonaldTrump told Esquire magazine in 1991. /5
Beauty queen Carrie Prejean wrote that @RealDonaldTrump made pageant contestants parade in front of him so he could separate the attractive from the unattractive, which caused the girls to sob even before the contest began. /23
To Howard Stern about 22 year old Ivana, @realDonaldTrump said: ‘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.’ /22
In a ’94 interview, @RealDonaldTrump said he was a ‘starmaker’ who married women and made them famous. ‘Unfortunately, after they're a star, the fun is over for me. It's like a creation process. It's almost like creating a building. It's pretty sad.’ /21
Female employee Louise Sunshine (who worked for Trump from ‘73-85) said Trump kept a 'fat picture' of her and would take it out when she disappointed him to remind her she wasn’t perfect. /19
.@RealDonaldTrump described pedophile Jeff Epstein: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. A lot of fun to be with. It’s even said he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” /16
As I say, this is a truncated version of what she has compiled.
Look, I realize that this collection of remarks is not going to significantly affect his poll numbers (his base will ensure that he at least maintains the 37 percent at which he usually hovers). None of it rises to the level of egregiousness that can get him in legal trouble. So the I-hate-Trump-so-badly-I-must-vent-about-it-any-opportunity-I-get crowd sets itself up for disappointment it it's looking for such a review of his boorishness to move the needle.
But what it says to two types of - what would you call them? There was a time when both types could legitimately claim actual-conservative status - Trump enthusiasts (those, like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Wayne Allen Root, Jim Hoft, Janine Pirro, Conrad Black, John Nolte) who forthrightly began shilling for him at the outset of his campaign, and those who started out looking askance at his character, but now want us to prioritize his administration's good moves over that character, such as Kurt Schlichter, Bookworm and Victor Davis Hanson - DJT supporters is that they have cast their lot with a inarguable lowlife (who is not even a conservative).
There will no doubt be some more great policy-level moves - on the order of pulling out of the Paris climate accord, renewing the focus on charter schools and homeschooling in education policy, drilling for oil on federal lands, recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and appointing great judges - coming our way, and that is without a doubt marvelous.
But, as I've said before, we'd have had all or most of this with a man or woman of true character, like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rick Perry, or Carly Fiorina.
Anybody who calls the above utterings mere "locker room talk" or who engages in whataboutism, comparing him to John Conyers or Bill Clinton is engaging in tribalism of the rankest, most juvenile kind.
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