Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging about how he uses his power to sexually assault women in 2005. Now it’s going viral.
I have already wasted too much time today posting about politics. But I have just seen this video, and I have to write about it, because it makes me SO. FUCKING. ANGRY.
The Washington Post broke the story. I think you can still watch the clip there:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?postshare=6361475870515092&tid=ss_tw
Watch the whole thing. Because it isn’t just the conversation on the bus that’s important here, though that’s the part where he talks about how when you’re a star, women will “let you do anything,” and how you can just go up to women and “start kissing them,” and hey if you see someone you like you can “grab her by the pussy,” why not, and then they spot Arianne Zucker, the poor luckless actress who is going to be his co-star in the stupid cameo they’ve written for The Donald on this soap opera, and Donald and that little prick Billy Bush from Access Hollywood compete to see who can be the most gross about objectifying her and her legs.
No, it’s what happens after the bus door opens that really shows you what Donald is made of, and how the whole entertainment industry is set up to enable assholes like him. Because having had this disgusting conversation about how much they both want to hit that, Donald comes off the bus with a big smile and says hello as if he is a decent human being and Zucker greets him, and then the first goddamn thing Bush says is, “How about a hug for the Donald?” And then of course Donald says Bush has to have a hug.
So in other words, Donald talks about how he likes to grope women, Bush and Donald egg each other on about how gropable Zucker is, and then as soon as they meet her, they help each other touch her.
And then, as they walk down to the studio, being filmed all the way, Bush starts asking Zucker which of them she would date if she had to choose, and Zucker is giving him the fake smile she’s undoubtedly given thousands of these assholes over the course of her career and plays along as she has to because the cameras are rolling and because after all she’s there to let Donald be Donald…and I’m just sitting there screaming internally, “YOU. FUCKER.”
This should be the end of Donald. It won’t be; but it should.