Donald Trump is apparently obsessed with talking about women's skin


It seems like Donald Trump can't go more than a day or two without injecting new derogatory comments about women into the news cycle. BuzzFeed politics reporter Andrew Kaczynski found that in particular, the Republican presidential frontrunner likes to critique women's skin.
"Jennifer [Lawrence] has a little skin problem, I'd say," he once said on The Howard Stern Show. "Polka dots all over the place."
Trump didn't even spare Princess Diana.
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"She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin," he said, again on Howard Stern. "She was crazy, but these are minor details."
Listen to Kaczynski's disturbing compilation of Trump talking skin below. Julie Kliegman
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