Teen Models Remember Trump Would “Find a Reason” to Come Backstage When They Were Changing
In exclusive excerpts from the explosive new book All the President’s Women, modeling contestants recall President Trump’s “gropey” behavior and his interest in young girls.
by BARRY LEVINE and MONIQUE EL-FAIZY
OCT 21, 2019
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In 2016, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Nobody has more respect for women than me!” Although his sordid history with women has been well-documented (to date, at least 25 women have accused the POTUS of sexual misconduct), he remains in office, seemingly immune to the forces of the #MeToo movement.
Nothing ever happened with any of these women. Totally made up nonsense to steal the election. Nobody has more respect for women than me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 15, 2016
But a new book by journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy aims to uncover parts of Trump’s past that should no longer be ignored. In the following passages excerpted from All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator, we learn of Trump’s egregious and disturbing misconduct around young women trying to make it in the modeling world in the early 1990s. — Rosa Heyman
Trump’s hands, the size of which would later become the subject of significant public curiosity, were infamous for other reasons back then, according to sources. “He was gropey...he had his hands in the most inappropriate places, always,” [NaKina] Carr said. [Editor’s note: NaKina Carr was working as a runway model for Oscar de la Renta.] “When he went in to kiss someone, the hand always went to either the hip or the butt. He was also really good when he did pictures or when he’d side-hug someone. He’d always get his hand on the boob. Every time.” Stories about Trump and his hands circulated within the modeling community. At one modeling event, Trump allegedly went down a line of women feeling their bodies to guess their dress size. Backstage at a lingerie show, he is said to have moved his hands all over a model’s breasts under the guise of inspecting the bra’s fabric.
“If you’re over twenty-one, you don’t have to worry.”
Another trademark Trump move was honed back in the early 1980s. “I saw this several times: When he met a girl, he’d immediately move in to kiss her, not shake her hand or say ‘Hello, how are you?’ He’d immediately put his mouth on her,” Carr said. “I saw him many times go straight to the mouth, to kiss them on the mouth, and they would turn their cheek. But a lot of them didn’t because they knew he was the moneyman and it was a way up.”
Among modeling insiders, Trump had a reputation at the time for preferring the younger girls. “If you’re over twenty-one you don’t have to worry,” Carr said she was told.
Stacy Wilkes competed in the 1991 [Look of the Year] contest as a sixteen-year-old, representing the United States. She remembers Trump coming into their dressing area during the contest, more than once. “I would feel really uncomfortable, because every time we would change, it was like Trump would find a reason to come backstage to see all the teenagers,” she told us. “When you’re doing a runway show, they have to strip you down and change you....There was no need for him to be back there.” Trump never tried to justify his presence backstage but would just walk in and start making jokes. The girls didn’t feel that they were free to complain. “We were afraid to say anything bad when he was around because we didn’t want anything to hurt our chances of winning,” Wilkes said. “We were all young teenagers.” Wilkes’s roommate ended up spending the night with one of the celebrity judges, Wilkes said, and later won one of the prizes.
Donald Trump and contestants during “The Look of the Year” The Spirit New York Cruise in New York City, September 1991.
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Models report similar things happening during the competition the following year. Shawna Lee was only fourteen when she was the entrant from Canada in the 1992 Look of the Year contest. She also attended an event on a yacht. This time the girls were asked to walk one by one down a staircase and dance in front of Trump and [John] Casablancas [of Elite agency], who were seated in chairs at the bottom. “It was a very small area and I could see them laughing and making fun of the girls,” most of whom were fifteen and sixteen years old, she said in an interview for this book. “You know, these men were older than my father at the time, looking girls up and down and objectifying them. It was just kind of gross. I don’t think doing that had anything to do with being a professional model.”
“WHEN YOU’RE DOING A RUNWAY SHOW, THEY HAVE TO STRIP YOU DOWN AND CHANGE YOU....THERE WAS NO NEED FOR HIM TO BE BACK THERE.”
Lee told us that Trump wandered around their dressing room, too, before the runway show. “I was thinking, what’s that old guy doing back here,” she said. “I was changing and looked up as he was looking and doing a slow stroll by, checking out the girls.”
Dressing rooms weren’t the only places where Trump barged in on women. In the early 1990s, a world-famous supermodel had flown to New York to attend a fashion event and was staying in a suite at the Plaza hotel. She was seeing another industry insider and they had gone back to her room. The two were in bed together when they heard the door open, according to the man, who gave an interview for this book requesting anonymity because both he and the supermodel still work in the industry and fear retribution. Thinking it was housekeeping, the pair sat up in bed and hollered that they didn’t need anything. A few seconds later, the door to the bedroom opened. “It’s Donald standing there,” the man said in his interview. Trump had let himself in. The supermodel and her companion were stunned.
“I said, ‘What the hell are you doing?’” the man said. “We’re naked, so she pulled up the covers and we’re freaked out. I couldn’t believe it. He looks in the room and he took a good look at both of us and he slammed the door really hard, like in anger. And that really pissed me off, that he came in and slammed the door with this arrogant attitude.”
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The two threw clothes on and ran out after Trump, arriving just as his elevator was leaving. They grabbed the next elevator and rushed into the lobby. Trump was already in the middle of the crowd talking to people. “I was livid,” the man said. “She’s hysterical, crying....And I went at him, and just as I was about to grab him, his bodyguard jumped between us and pushed me back. I was screaming at him, ‘What the fuck are you doing, coming into my room?’ It was a scene.”
While the bodyguard was trying to push the man away, Trump approached. “I hate sloppy seconds,” Trump said. “It was loud enough for her to hear,” the man said. “Like, she’s holding on to my arm and trying to pull me away, too, and she heard him...and she had the courage to say to him, ‘You fucking bastard.’ So we walk away. We got shoved back into the elevator,” he recounted.
Later, back in their room, the supermodel revealed to her companion that Trump had gotten her phone number from her agent and had been calling her for weeks. She had repeatedly rebuffed him. “And then it dawned on us...that had I not been in the room, it would have been a scene,” the man said. “She wanted nothing to do with him.”
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Donald and Ivanka Trump Moments That Totally Weird Us Out Chelsea Leary | MORE ARTICLES
August 13, 2018
Donald and Ivanka Trump | Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
It’s obvious that Donald Trump and his daughter are quite close. While that could be all well and fine, disturbing comments Trump has made about Ivanka Trump over the years have made their close relationship a bit unsettling.
From the shocking thing Trump said he has in common with his daughter to the seriously cringe-worthy admission he made in an interview (No. 9), these moments between Trump and Ivanka will totally weird you out.
1. Calling his daughter ‘hot’
Ivanka was just a teenager when he made these statements. | Drumpfsterfire1 via Instagram
Trump has been making creepy comments about his daughter for years. Back when Ivanka was just 16 years old, she’d hosted the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant.
According to The Independent, Trump turned to Miss Universe and asked her, “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”
Next: He made one disturbing comment after another.
2. He’d date her if she wasn’t his daughter
These embarrassing comments didn’t seem to faze Ivanka. | Fusion via YouTube
During an interview on The View, Trump made more than a few disturbing comments about his daughter. Right off the bat, he willingly engaged in conversation about Ivanka posing for Playboy. After noting, “I don’t think Ivanka would [pose nude] inside the magazine,” he added, “She does have a very nice figure.”
Somehow, it gets more disturbing. He claimed, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Next: He didn’t mind Howard Stern calling her this.
3. Agreeing that Ivanka is ‘a piece of ass’
He agreed with Howard Stern’s comment. | Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images
While sitting down on The Howard Stern Show in 2004, Trump was in agreement with the host that Ivanka is “ a piece of ass.”
After Trump commented, “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka,” Stern asked, “By the way, your daughter … Can I say this? A piece of ass.” Trump didn’t hesitate to agree, simply responding, “Yeah.”
Next: No father should ever use this word to describe their daughter.
4. Discussing Ivanka’s ‘voluptuous’ body
He’s mentioned Ivanka’s curves. | Rick Wilking/AFP/Getty Images
Trump has made disturbing comments about his daughter with Stern on more than one occasion. In 2006, when Trump returned to The Howard Stern Show, they moved their conversation specifically to Ivanka’s breasts.
Stern commented that Ivanka “looks more voluptuous than ever,” and even asked if she’d gotten implants. Rather than shutting down discussion about his daughter’s breasts, he responded that she didn’t get implants.
Trump even added, “She’s actually always been very voluptuous. She’s tall, she’s almost six feet tall and she’s been, she’s an amazing beauty.”
Next: You won’t be able to look at this without cringing.
5. This Vanity Fair photoshoot
This cringe-y photoshoot gave us nightmares. | Faq_Teenee via Twitter
Trump didn’t even need to say anything for us to get creeped out by this moment. Leave it to the internet to find this disturbing shot from a Vanity Fair photoshoot, taken at Mar-a-Lago. Ivanka was just 15 years old in this photo, making the cringey lap-sitting and face-caressing that much more uncomfortable.
Plus, as social media users pointed out, the statue they’re sitting on just adds to the discomfort of the whole thing. “WHY DOES THIS EXIST?!?,” a Twitter user wrote. “Why are parrots having sex? You weirdos!”
Next: This is Trump’s favorite thing he has in common with Ivanka.
6. ‘Sex’ is Trump’s favorite thing they have in common
He thinks about his daughter’s interest in sex. | Evan Agostini/Getty Images
During a joint interview on The Wendy Williams Show in 2013, Trump and Ivanka gave very different answers to the same question. Williams asked them what their favorite thing was that they had in common, to which Ivanka replied, “Either real estate or golf.”
Then, Trump made it weird. He claimed, “Well, I was going to say sex, but I can’t relate that to her.” The fact that “sex” even came to his mind makes us cringe, but him saying it out loud made it that much worse. He took the sex talk even further in another interview (No. 9).
Next: This innocent term turns disturbing with context.
7. Ivanka referring to him as ‘daddy’
Should she be calling him ‘daddy’? | Ivanka Trump via Instagram
While delivering a speech in North Dakota on tax reform in 2017, Trump shared a conversation he’d had earlier with Ivanka. “[Ivanka] wanted to make the trip. She said, ‘Dad, can I go with you?’ She said actually, ‘Daddy, can I go with you?’ I like that, right?” Trump recalled.
Sure, children can call their father “daddy” without it being scandalous. However, when you’re a woman in your mid-30s and you consider all the controversial moments Ivanka has had with her father, the term “daddy” becomes pretty cringe-worthy.
Next: Trump again objectifies his own daughter
8. Objectifying Ivanka
Donald Trump loves to comment on his daughter’s appearance.| Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Most women feel as though they can relax around their fathers, and they won’t have to be subjected to the same objectification they must deal with in the world. However, that clearly isn’t the case with Trump and Ivanka.
On The Howard Stern show back in 2003, Trump made yet another disturbing comment, saying, “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.”
Next: Does Trump really wish he wasn’t her father?
9. If he wasn’t married and her father …
Please don’t finish that sentence, Donald | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
In a Rolling Stone interview from 2015, journalist Paul Solotaroff interviewed Trump and his children.
After meeting Ivanka, he sang her praises to Trump who quickly quipped, “Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father …”
Next: Trump ruined a moment on The Dr. Oz Show that had to be edited out.
10. Things get weird on The Dr. Oz Show
Donald Trump kisses his daughter Ivanka Trump. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
In 2016, while on The Dr. Oz Show, Trump declared how much he loved kissing Ivanka. After Dr. Oz commented on how lovely it was to see a father kiss his daughter, Trump commented that he kissed Ivanka, “with every chance [he] gets.”
The comment was edited out of the final show.
Next: How did Ivanka feel about Trump’s jaw-dropping Access Hollywood tape?
11. A highly disturbing comment
Trump was married to Marla Maples when he made these comments. | Diane Freed/Getty Images
Apparently, Trump’s fascination with Ivanka started well before she was an adult. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen reported that when Ivanka was just 13 years old, her father asked, “Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife?”
The Post reportedly removed the quote from the column before it was published. How disturbing!
Next: He compared Ivanka to an adult film star.
12. He compared Stormy Daniels to Ivanka
He once compared the adult film star to his daughter. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images
By now, you’ve probably heard of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims she and the president had an affair in 2006 while Melania was pregnant with their youngest son, Barron. Well, it turns out even she reminded Trump of his daughter, despite how creepy that may sound.
During an interview with In Touch in 2011, Daniels admitted that Trump once compared her to Ivanka. “He told me once that I was someone to be reckoned with, beautiful and smart just like his daughter,” she said.
Next: The Apprentice crew recalls his disturbing behavior.
13. He talked about her on the set of The Apprentice
Trumpsters agree that Ivanka is a hot piece of ass and admire Trump for molesting his own daughter.
Donald Trump reportedly made lewd comments about his daughter on the set of the show. | Shealah Craighead/The White House
Those who witnessed Trump’s behavior from a distance are equally disturbed by the crass comments he makes about his daughter. In 2016, The Associated Press interviewed former crew members from The Apprentice and asked about how he acted on set.
Many of the employees recalled times when Trump would make lewd remarks towards the crew. According to the , one crew member in particular recalled that he once made a disturbing comment about a camerawoman’s behind and compared her beauty to that of Ivanka’s.
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