Trump has history of mocking appearances of his female critics and powerful women
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — not the president.
President Donald Trump has long made it a habit to disparage the appearances of women who have questioned and called him out — among his latest victims is porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims she had a brief affair with Trump during a celebrity golf tournament in 2006.
A federal judge this week dismissed Daniels’ defamation suit against Trump, which stemmed from a tweet in which the president slammed claims that a man threatened the X-rated actress against revealing the tryst as a “total con job.”
“Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the great state of Texas,” Trump taunted in a tweet in wake of the decision. “She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!”
Here’s a look back at some of Trump’s similar attacks:
ALICIA MACHADO
In the months after she was crowned the winner of Trump’s Miss Universe Pageant in 1996, Machado said the president subjected her to inappropriate behavior and verbal harassment.
He accused her of gaining too much weight after the competition and referred to her as “Miss Housekeeping” — a seemingly racist dig at her Venezuela roots — and “Miss Piggy.” Machado came forward with his attacks amid his bid for office in 2016 and became a routine talking point for his Democratic rival at the time, Hillary Clinton.
Machado in August 2016 took to Instagram to reveal she had become a U.S. citizen so that she could vote against Trump in the election, blasting him for the way he had treated her in the past. In September the same year, the president during an appearance on Fox & Friends said Machado’s weight was a “real problem” after she nabbed the crown.
“Did crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?” Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet.
ROSIE O’DONNELL
Amid the president’s longrunning feud with the renowned comedic actress, Trump has repeatedly attacked O’Donnell for her weight and has even mocked her struggles with mental illness.
“She announced last week that she suffers from depression,” he said during a 2007 speech. “They call me for comment and rather than saying ‘I have no comment’ or ‘isn’t that too bad, oh that’s so bad,’ I said, ‘I think I can cure her depression,’ — most of you heard of this. ‘If she stopped looking in the mirror, I think she’d stop being so depressed.’”
Later in the same speech, Trump said it was “politically correct bulls---” that people would not call her fat.
“This slob, now I’m not allowed to use the word fat. They say, ‘he used the fat word.’ I know much worse words,” he continued. “It’s funny, I called her a degenerate, I called her the worst things. Nobody cared.”
A year before, he said the “A League of Our Own” actress was “disgusting inside and out.”
“If I were running ‘The View,’ I’d fire Rosie. I’d look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, ‘Rosie you’re fired,’” he continued.
“We’re all a little chubby but Rosie’s just worse than most of us. But it’s not the chubbiness — Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out.”
ANGELINA JOLIE
Often hailed as one of the most beautiful people in the world, not even Angelina Jolie is safe from the president’s critical eye.
During an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in 2007, the then-businessman took issue with all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the award-winning actress’ physical appearance.
“Angelina Jolie is sort of amazing because everyone thinks she’s like this great beauty. And I’m not saying that she’s an unattractive woman, but she’s not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination,” he said.
“In terms of beauty, she’s not a great beauty. She’s a nice looking woman. She’s OK. But she’s not great.”
Trump, seemingly put off by the notorious smooch Jolie planted on her brother after claiming her Oscar, also mocked her status as a global ambassador.
“And now she’s like the representative of the United Nations and world peace on hunger and all of this crap,” he ranted. “It’s called give me a break.”
GAIL COLLINS
In a message sent to The New York Times, Trump took aim at columnist Gail Collins after she mocked his presidential aspirations in a piece published in the paper. She blasted him as “the man who can make Bill O’Reilly look like the most sensible guy in the room.”
“During one down period, I referred to him in print as a ‘financially embattled thousandaire’ and he sent me a copy of the column with my picture circled and ‘The face of a Dog!’ written over it,” Collins wrote in a 2011 op-ed.
Trump has labeled a long list of women “dogs” during his time in the public eye, including his former staffer Omarosa Manigualt and actress Kristen Stewart.