More audio of Republican nominee Donald Trump making questionable comments over the years were uncovered this weekend, following a Friday bombshell that has sparked a fury of backlash against the billionaire businessman’s campaign.
In a 2004 interview with radio host Howard Stern, Trump can be heard acknowledging that it is OK to call his daughter Ivanka, at the time 17, “a piece of ass,” CNN reported Saturday.
“By the way, your daughter,” Stern said to Trump.
“She’s beautiful,” Trump replied.
“Can I say this? A piece of ass,” Stern asked.
“Yeah,” Trump said.
Trump has come under fire for suggestive comments about his daughter before.
In a 2006 appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Trump said, “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
In another unearthed interview with Stern in October 2006, they talk about Trump’s wife Melania’s breasts, in a conversation where they both describe the former model as “voluptuous.”
CNN put out a list of several other exchanges, with audio in which Trump discusses women’s ages, sleeping with black women and infidelity,
On Friday the Washington Post published a video in which a hot mic captured Trump discussing seducing a married women in vulgar terms.
Afterwards, several Republicans withdrew their support of the GOP nominee, while some, like Trump’s running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, stayed on board but expressed their dismay with the tape.
Melania Trump stood by her husband, though in a statement said Donald Trump’s words are “offensive to me.”
“The words my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me,” Melania said. “This does not represent the man that I know. He has the heart and mind of a leader. I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world.”
Trump, for his part, put out two statements apologizing for his remarks 11 years ago, saying in one, “I pledge to be a better man tomorrow.”
