A women’s advocacy group on Friday set up a Jumbotron on the National Mall just a few hundred yards away from the White House to play the “Access Hollywood” tape in which President Trump described how he could grope women because he is famous.
The video was set up by the group UltraViolet to mark the one-year anniversary of the release of the tape.
“That man may now sit in the Oval Office, but we will not let him — or anyone else — forget the tape or those comments,” Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet said in a press release. “The Donald Trump on that tape is the same Donald Trump that sits in the Oval Office every day, aggressively pursuing an anti-woman agenda.”
In the aftermath of the original Washington Post report, Trump dismissed the comments as “locker room talk” and said he was “not proud” of his remarks.
However, UltraViolet won’t accept that answer. “It was not so-called ‘locker room talk,’ it was a man bragging about sexually assaulting women,” she said.
Although the president was accused of sexual assault during the campaign trail, he has never been convicted nor has he admitted to any of it. UltraViolet will have the display on the mall near the Washington Monument until 9 pm on Friday.
