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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe
A Timeline of Donald Trumps Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe
From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Trump's a storied pageant creep
October 12, 2016
A Timeline of the Creepy Things Trump Said/Did While He Owned Miss Universe
Donald Trump with 51 Miss USA contestants and 20 former Miss Universes in 2006. Curtis/StarPix/REX/Shutterstock (I can't get a link to this incredibly creepy video)
Donald Trump was forced to sell the Miss Universe Organization which also includes sister scholarship programs Miss USA and Miss Teen USA in 2015 after his incendiary comments about Mexicans drove away broadcasters NBC and Univision. But Trump owned the pageant for nearly two decades, during which time he would have had the opportunity to come into contact with nearly 4,000 beauty queens. On the heels of the damaging videotape on which Trump and former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush salivated over Days of Our Live actress Arianne Zucker, and joked about sexually assaulting women, came allegations that Trump entered the Miss Teen USA changing room where girls as young as 15 were in various states of undress.
Mariah Billado, Miss Teen Vermont 1997 told BuzzFeed, I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, Oh my god, theres a man in here.' Three other teenage contestants from the same year confirmed the story. The former pageant contestants discussed their memories of the incident after former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon told Los Angeles CBS affiliate that Trump entered the Miss USA dressing room in 2001 when she was a contestant. He just came strolling right in, Dixon said. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Others girls were naked. Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half-naked changing into our bikinis. Dixon went on to say that employees of the Miss Universe Organization encouraged the contestants to lavish Trump with attention when he came in. To have the owner come waltzing in, when were naked, or half-naked, in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the people that worked for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him, get his attention
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His position as the pageants owner entitled him to that kind of access, Trump explained, seemingly aware that what he was doing made the women uncomfortable. You know, no men are anywhere. And Im allowed to go in because Im the owner of the pageant. And therefore Im inspecting it Is everyone OK? You know, theyre standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that, he said. (Billado told BuzzFeed she mentioned the incident to Trumps daughter, Ivanka, who shrugged it off, saying, Yeah, he does that.)
Here are other highlights from Trumps storied history as a pageant creep.

Miss Venezuela, Alicia Machado (L), 19, from the hometown of Maracay, won the 1996 Miss Universe Crown late 17 May in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1996
When he bought the Miss Universe pageant family, Trump told Stern in 2005, the pageant was a sick puppy. The relative hotness of contestants had seriously deteriorated in the preceding years, he explained to Stern, because the judges had begun placing a greater emphasis on brains over beauty. They had a person that was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors, Trump said. And I wasnt interested. The first Miss Universe crowned on Trumps watch was Miss Venezuela, Alicia Machado. Hillary Clinton famously invoked Trumps treatment of Machado during the first presidential debate. Machado remembers him calling her Miss Piggy because she gained weight and Miss Housekeeping because shes Latina. Trump invited reporters to observe Machado exercising, against her protests. She told The New York Times earlier this year, I was about to cry in that moment with all the cameras there. I said, I dont want to do this, Mr. Trump. He said, I dont care.'
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Donald Trump places a ribbon on Miss California USA Carrie Prejean during a press conference at Trump Tower May 12, 2009 in New York.
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2015
The 2015 Miss USA pageant was set to take place the first week of July three weeks after Trump characterized Mexicans as rapists and criminals during his campaign kick-off event. One by one, the pageants hosts, judges, sponsors, and broadcasters dropped out. Trump was forced to sell the pageants to WME in September 2015. Update, October 13th, 10:30 a.m. ET: The Trump campaign issued a statement to Rolling Stone categorically denying these allegations and questioning the political motivation behind reporting on them, adding, Mr. Trump has a fantastic record of empowering women throughout his career, and a more accurate story would be to show how hes been a positive influence in the lives of so many.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/a-timeline-of-donald-trumps-creepiness-while-he-owned-miss-universe-191860/
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A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe (Original Post)
niyad
Jan 2024
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TSExile
(3,363 posts)1. Unleash all the old clips.
Juxtapose them with clips of him ranting against E. Jean Carroll, bragging about overturning Roe, and of course, "grab 'em by the..." Then run them during every commercial break from now until Election Day. The Biden campaign and/or the Lincoln Project has to be on this!!!
WOMEN MATTER!!!!!
B.See
(4,356 posts)3. He's much more than just a 'pageant creep' - he's a SELF CONFESSED molester, accused of and/or found guilty of...
... sexual assault and RAPE (as per the E. Jean Carroll case) . And there's much more to the above.
Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations - Wikipedia
Miss Teen USA contestants (1997)
Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA, is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997. Billado said of the visit: "I remember putting on my dress really quick, because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here.' Trump, she recalled, said something like, 'Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.'" Billado recalled talking to Ivanka, Trump's daughter, who responded "Yeah, he does that."
Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA, is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997. Billado said of the visit: "I remember putting on my dress really quick, because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here.' Trump, she recalled, said something like, 'Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.'" Billado recalled talking to Ivanka, Trump's daughter, who responded "Yeah, he does that."
His own daughter? "Yeah, he does that"?? EWWWW.
And remember THIS?
The lawsuit accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl, explained
The anonymous plaintiff dropped her lawsuit against Trump, the circumstances around which have been bizarre.
WELL,
Lawsuit Accusing Trump of Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl Reemerges After Trump Loses Case Against E. Jean Carroll - MSN
niyad
(122,035 posts)6. Thank you. This deserves its own OP. Would you consider posting it here in GD,
and in Women's Rights and Issues? Thanks in advance.
B.See
(4,356 posts)7. DONE. And happy to oblige.

Ohio Joe
(21,894 posts)4. K&R - nt