Trump’s Latest Comments About Women Are Rape Culture In A Nutshell

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“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful [women]. I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait,” Donald Trump can be heard saying to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush in an explicit and uncensored 2005 video recording obtained by The Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold and released Friday.

“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump continues. “You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” (Watch the video footage below.)


These comments are among the most lewd and repulsive of what the public has heardthe Republican presidential candidate say about women. Americans are well aware that Trump has a history of misogyny, ranging from attacking the appearances of women he dislikes, to shaming a woman breastfeeding, to fat-shaming a beauty queen, to sexually harassing women who worked on “The Apprentice,” to rating women on a numerical scale.

In Trump’s world, women are objects ― objects that only hold a value based on how physically attractive he personally finds them to be. And if women are objects, rather than whole human beings, it follows that Trump must deserve them. Women are things. And when he wants them, he wants them.

As he says to Bush: “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

This is what rape culture looks like.


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Paul Ryan Responds To Donald Trump’s Misogyny

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Friday responded to a newly disclosed recording of Donald Trump talking about women in vulgar terms the way he has with so many other Trump outrages: First with silence, and then with a statement.

“I am sickened by what I heard today,” Ryan said through a spokesman, about five hours after The Washington Post published a 2005 recording of Trump boasting of groping women and trying to have sex with a married woman. “Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I hope Mr. Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests.

“In the meantime,” said the statement, Trump won’t campaign with Ryan on Saturday in Wisconsin, which would have been the first public appearance of the two men together. Ryan instead will stand on stage with Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

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Reince Priebus, Other Republicans Denounce Trump’s ‘Indefensible’ Comments About Women

Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chair, and scores of other GOP members condemned on Friday derogatory comments that GOP nominee Donald Trump made toward women in 2005. But none of the party officials indicated they were withdrawing their support of the real estate mogul.

Trump had claimed he pushed a married woman to have sex with him and said he could grab women “by the pussy” because he was a celebrity. A recording of his conversation with then-”Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush was published by NBC News and The Washington Post on Friday.

“No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner. Ever,” Priebus said in a statement released that night.

Priebus was scheduled to appear alongside Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) at a fundraiser in Wisconsin on Saturday. Late Friday, however, Trump’s campaign announced the nominee would no longer be appearing, and would instead be participating in a debate prep session in New York.

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Jon Huntsman And Other Republicans Call On Donald Trump To Drop Out Of The Race

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) on Friday called on GOP nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race after The Washington Post published an explicit recording from 2005 in which the New York businessman speaks about women in lewd and derogatory terms.

In a conversation with then-”Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush, Trump claimed he tried to have sex with a married woman and could grab women “by the pussy” because he was a celebrity.

Responding to the tape, Huntsman said it was time for Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s vice presidential running mate, to assume the GOP nomination.

“In a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom — at such a critical moment for our nation — and with so many who have tried to be respectful of a record primary vote, the time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket,” Huntsman told The Salt Lake Tribune.

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