After Donald Trump‘s debut as a sexual assaulter began with the Access Hollywood tape, the floodgates quickly opened. Among the worst comments to come to light were those that Trump made as a self-important publicity seeker on Howard Stern’s show. Like a lot of us, Trump was addicted to the program, both as a listener and as a guest. Trump appeared more than two dozen times over a two-decade period. In the course of his ramblings, he bestowed upon the public a trail that included his support for the Iraq War (which he keeps denying).
Trump probably thought that Stern was like Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush, an enabler in awe of Trump’s superiority. What he didn’t realize is that Stern was an exposer, showing Trump up as the buffoon he is.
Most people think of Stern as a shock jock, and that’s certainly how he started out. But Stern evolved into the most lethal type of interviewer: the one who lulls his subject into thinking it’s okay to say anything.
It’s not. As a result of Trump’s inability to see how Stern was playing him like a fiddle, we know have these gems:
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- He’d sleep with Lindsay Lohan: “She’s probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they’re always the best in bed?”
- But not Kim Kardashian: “Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.”
- He would have slept with Princess Diana (and thinks he could have gotten her): “She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin. She was crazy, but these are minor details.”
- But not Angelina Jolie: “I don’t think she’s got a great face. I think her lips are too big, to be honest with you, they look like too big.”
Thanks to Stern, we also know Trump considered Miss Universe Alicia Machado “an eating machine,” was willing to set up daughter Ivanka up with Stern, called avoiding STDs his “personal Vietnam,” and boasted about walking into the dressing rooms of beauty contestants so he could see them unclothed.
Any one of these remarks would be bad enough. But taken together–particularly in the context of the Access Hollywood tape–they point a vivid picture of an egomaniac who sees women, even his daughter, as sex objects.
How did Stern get Trump to make such outrageous comments? By being willing to be outrageous himself. Stern’s show has always been willing to plumb the depths of bad taste. But just as Stern is willing to bring out the worst in himself, in a wonderfully self-deprecating manner, he’s got an undeniable talent in doing the same for his guests. Only Howard Stern–who, by the way has become quite a champion of LGBTQ equality–could get away with getting Trump to admit, sitting next to Ivanka, that he is in fact what he now denies he is.
“Donald, seriously. You know about sexual predators and things like that,” Stern says in yet another clip that has recently emerged. His co-host Robin Quivers fills in the blank: “You are one!” (Quivers deserves a lot of credit as Stern’s sidekick in his brilliant interviews.)
Trump laughs. “That’s true, that’s true.”
Stern knew just what he was doing: making Trump out to be the douchebag that he truly is. The pitiful part is that Trump had no idea what was happening. He didn’t get the joke. So much for the master negotiator. In his ability to make his opponent look like a fool, Stern comes off as a much better politician than the candidate himself.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Love Howard.
kevin_morgan
He’s one of the people who has helped to keep this guy in the public eye. He helped to create the monster, no credit.
DCguy
@kevin_morgan:
By that logic, then the debate moderators, the people who put up his hotel signs, and anybody who ever watched the Apprentice are responsible.
The fact is, Stern is the only interviewer who actually dissected his interview subjects enough to end up hanging Trump. Every other person in the media let him get away with everything.
KM201
Everyone here keeps assuming that Donald Trump’s candidacy is over. He didn’t survive over 17 other Republicans in the circus we call a primary for nothing. I don’t see how everyone thinks that tape with Billy Bush is going to kill him. If saying John McCain wasn’t a war hero, or praising Saddam Hussein, or saying Hillary should be killed or threatening to destroy the GOP didn’t tank him, this tape won’t. Meanwhile, we are still three weeks away from the election and anything can happen in that period of time. Not all of Hillary’s dirt has emerged yet and don’t underestimate the Russians trying to cook up a war (either economically or militarily) to shift the polls enough in Trump’s favor. As long as Hillary is only 5 points ahead of Trump, the election could still be his. The remain polls in the Brexit referendum earlier this year were as high as 10 points, but the inverse occurred and now the UK is on the way out of the European Union. As the old expression goes, it ain’t over until it’s over. Getting a false sense of security can backfire in ways you’d never expect.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
I personally believe that this is all a ploy created by Trump and Bill Clinton to get Hillary elected. The Trumps and Clinton’s have been great friends with the Clintons for decades. Chelsea’s best friend is the Trump daughter. Trump is friends with all of the New York elite liberals like Howard, Kelly Ripa and Mark, Anderson Cooper (yes, Anderson), Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, etc. He’s donated to Cyndi Lauper’s LGBT homeless charity, etc. There was a phone call between Bill and Trump where Bill asked him to run for president. This could all be a conspiracy – but this whole thing seems so far out there on Trump’s end where he seems almost comedic and satirical. He seems like a character and not a real person. Where Hillary is genuinely disliked by the general public in a very real way that she could lose against someone like Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz. She’s even struggling against a reality TV star. That says a lot. I really believe this is all a ploy to get Clinton nomimated. That’s my opinion.
Bob LaBlah
@KM201: “He didn’t survive over 17 other Republicans in the circus we call a primary for nothing.”
Trump saw something that a lot of people in the GOP failed to see: weak and directionless leadership. It was and still is leaderless as were ALL of his competitors in the primary. He got my attention when during the first debate roughly a year ago he called out Bush in regards to the mess his brother created in Iraq while knowing we would never be able to leave that place. Since then I have abandoned him because I new as early as last Christmas this guy was wrong for the oval office.
Kangol
@Bob LaBlah: The GOP has long been a party on autopilot. The Congressional delegation, out of a desire to sink Barack Obama because he won in 2008, basically refused to do their jobs. When they do vote for legislation, it always benefits elites and corporations. Otherwise, they don’t care, and yet they create these ridiculous pantomimes, like the Benghazi hearings, yet could not be bothered to investigate the 12 documented Benghazis that happened under George W. Bush. Trump is a r@cist, misogynistic, business disaster clown, and a self-admitted serial sex abuser. It says everything that this is the man the GOP base nominated and is sticking with to the bitter end. Yes, Howard Stern helped elevate him, but then so did the “liberal” media as a whole, so Stern comes off looking like the decent one in all of this, by a long shot.
Kangol
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: I wish this were the case. If anything, I am starting to believe that even more than electing Hillary Clinton, Trump’s goal is to destroy the Republican Party as we know it. He has torn that party apart, exposing how it is as bad, and in many cases worse, than the Democrats in terms of its global, elitist policies. With the Democrats you get a pro-Wall Street party that attempts to pass some social progressive legislation and little drips and drabs of economically progressive policies, with general decent to outstanding overall economic success (cf. FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, and Obama). With the GOP you get a pro-Wall Street party (cf. George W. Bush’s presidency) that fights any social progress when in office, and that passes economic legislation that almost completely benefits the ultrarich, but usually tanks or creates deep recessions in the economy (cf. Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, and most spectactularly, WBush). Why Trump felt that he was the one to expose the GOP for what it was I don’t know, but he’s done that, and shown how its base really doesn’t want traditional right wing or extreme right candidates like John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush. They want something closer to authoritarian, populist fascism. And they want it so badly they’re willing to lose a general election yet again.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Kangol: He has exposed these assholes for what they are.
http://www.newnownext.com/trump-gay-confederate-bumper-sticker/10/2016/
Hillarys a murderer
You gotta love how everyone thinks Trump is this person that had ppl killed in Benghazi! Or this person that controls the media! Even better a person that screwed over Bernie Sanders! Even better Trump didn’t enable espouse who’s a serial rapist! Nor did he steal money that was supposed to help Haiti! He’s not under suspicion of killing over 40 people to keep his story ouuta the media she controls. Nor did Trump treat vets that worked 4 him like crap & curse them off! Trump never was a politician like Hillary Trump didn’t run pay for play and make his friends presidents of countries. Nor did Trump Sell uranium to the Russians nor did Trump sell weapons 2 Al-Qaeda.To compare Trump to Hillary u just cannot! I support neither but if i was to vote it certainly wouldn’t be for this hillary person! Just read her emails she admits in them that isis will bring down this country but still will ket them in! Shes not a good person never before has one person such as Trump try to bring down entire corrupt politician he will be successful wait and see and when he is successful he’s going to get all of you!
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol: This guy, Charles Krauthhammer, is a died in the wool neocon dating back to the Reagan years. I don’t know if you read the last one I posted from him but check out what he is saying now:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4466399-155/charles-krauthammer-its-not-the-locker
Brian
Howard Stern is an ugly sleazeball. Imagine waking up next to him in the morning…ewwwwww.
MediaGuy
The heading on this article is: “GOP Death Watch”. hahahahhaha. When you have the White House, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court, WHAT death watch are we talking about? The liberals (Queerty and the girls) are so out of touch it’s stupefying.