61 things Donald Trump has said about women

Former President Donald Trump is being sued by author E. Jean Carroll for an alleged sexual assault Carroll says took place in the 1990s. He has denied the assault ever happened, asserting that Carroll is "not my type."

Here is a chronological list of things the former president has said about women:

On Vice President Kamala Harris

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1. "You know what, people don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country." [Sept. 8, 2020]

2. "Very, very nasty ... the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate." [Aug. 11, 2020]

On Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

3. "This is not even a smart person, other than she's got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps." [Aug. 14, 2020]

On Stormy Daniels

4. "Horseface" [Oct. 16, 2018]

On the #MeToo movement

5. "It is a very scary time for young men in America, where you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. … Women are doing great." [Oct. 2, 2018]

6. "You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. … You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit." [Via Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House]

On Omarosa Manigault Newman

7. "A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog." [Aug. 14, 2018]

On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters

8. "An extraordinarily low IQ person." [June 25, 2018]

On Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

9. "[S]omeone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)." [Dec. 12, 2017]

On French first lady Brigitte Macron

10. "You know, you're in such good shape. Beautiful." [July 13, 2017]

On Mika Brzezinski

11. "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" [June 29, 2017]

On Hillary Clinton

12. "Such a nasty woman." [Oct. 19, 2016]

13. "If she were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote." [April 26, 2016]

14. "She got schlonged." [Dec. 21, 2015]

15. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?" [April 16, 2015]

On Carly Fiorina

16. "Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" [Sept. 9, 2015]

On Heidi Klum

17. "Sadly, she's no longer a 10." [Aug. 15, 2015]

On Megyn Kelly

18. "She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." [Aug. 7, 2015]

19. "Bimbo." [Aug. 7, 2015]

On Kim Kardashian

20. Asked if her butt is big: "Well, absolutely. It's record-setting. In the old days, they'd say she has a bad body." [June 18, 2014]

21. "Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely." [Feb. 6, 2013]

On Halle Berry

22. "I love her … upper body." [February 2013]

On Beyoncé

23. "When Beyoncé was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else would have done that it would have been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous ... I thought it was not appropriate." [February 2013]

On Jessica Chastain

24. "She's certainly not hot." [February 2013]

On Cher

25. "I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn't work." [Nov. 13, 2012]

On Bette Midler

26. "@BetteMidler talks about my hair but I'm not allowed to talk about her ugly face or body --- so I won't. Is this a double standard?" [Oct. 28, 2012]

27. Two minutes later: "While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct." [Oct. 28, 2012]

On Kristen Stewart

28. "Robert [Pattinson] I'm getting a lot of heat for saying you should dump Kristen — but I'm right. If you saw the Miss Universe girls, you would reconsider." [Oct. 18, 2012]

On Arianna Huffington

29. "Unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man — he made a good decision." [Aug. 28, 2012]

On Angelina Jolie

30. "Angelina Jolie is sort of amazing because everyone thinks she's like this great beauty. And I'm not saying she's an unattractive woman, but she's not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination." [October 2007]

31. "I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she's not — I do own Miss Universe. I do own Miss USA. I mean I own a lot of different things. I do understand beauty, and she's not." [October 2007]

32. "I remember at the Academy Awards a few years ago she was frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I never saw before in my life. And she had just said she made love to Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on the way over. And I wouldn't want to shake her hand, by the way." [October 2007]

On Rosie O'Donnell

33. "Can you imagine the parents of Kelli ... when she said, 'Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie?'" [Dec. 29, 2006]

34. "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." [2006]

35. "Rosie's a person who's very lucky to have her girlfriend and she better be careful or I'll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend. Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?" [2006]

36. "If I were running The View, I'd fire Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.'" [2006]

On his daughter Ivanka Trump

37. When asked if Ivanka, then 24, had breast implants: "She's actually always been very voluptuous." [2006]

38. "She does have a very nice figure ... if [she] weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." [June 4, 2004]

On his wife Melania Trump

39. When asked if he would stay with her if she was disfigured in a car crash: "How do the breasts look?" [April 11, 2005]

On Nancy O'Dell

40. "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and f--k her. She was married." [2005]

On Lindsay Lohan

41. "What do you think of Lindsay Lohan? There's something there, right? But you have to like freckles. I've seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? ... She's probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women — deeply, deeply troubled — they're always the best in bed?" [2004]

On Steffi Graf

42. "You never get to the face because the body's so good." [Sept. 23, 2004]

On Paris Hilton

43. "Now, somebody who a lot of people don't give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?'" [2003]

On Princess Diana

44. Three weeks after her death, Trump was asked if he could have "nailed" Princess Diana: "I think I could have." [1997]

On his daughter Tiffany Trump

45. "Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla. She's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs." Motioning to his chest, Trump added: "We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell." [1994]

On women of The Apprentice in general

46. To a contestant on The Apprentice: "That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees." [2013]

47. "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." [2004]

48. "It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on The Apprentice were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal." [2004]

On women he's been in relationships with

49. "Oftentimes when I was sleeping with one of the top women in the world I would say to myself, thinking about me as a boy from Queens, 'Can you believe what I am getting?'" [2008]

50. "I'd have no problem" sleeping with 24-year-olds. (Trump was 60 at the time.) [2006]

51. "I don't want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds." [2006]

52. On whether he's had sex with a Black woman: "Well, it depends on what your definition of Black is." [2005]

53. "You know, it doesn't really matter what [the media] writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." [1991]

His thoughts on women in general

54. "I saved your suburbs — women, suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump!" [Oct. 18, 2020]

55. To a female reporter: "We could say, politically correct, that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters. Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful." [2014]

56. "26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military — only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" [May 7, 2013]

57. "I've got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." [2005]

58. "I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." [Nov. 17, 1999]

59. "There's nothing I love more than women, but they're really a lot different than portrayed. They are far worse than men, far more aggressive, and boy, can they be smart!" [1997]

60. "Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression 'the weaker sex' was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part." [1997]

His thoughts on how he treats women

61. "Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody. Nobody has more respect." [Oct. 19, 2016]

April 26, 2023: This article has been updated throughout.