87 things Donald Trump has said about women
The former president has a long history of controversial remarks about the opposite sex
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody.”
Donald Trump has been many things over the course of his life: a politician, a business mogul, a nightlife fixture, and a reality television icon, to name just a few. But one thing Trump is not, nor has he ever been, is “filtered.” Quite the opposite, in fact. In politics and business alike, Trump has built his personal brand on being as unapologetically outspoken as possible, often to the delight (if occasional chagrin) of his most dedicated followers.
Although Trump has, to date, largely avoided any serious fallout or consequences from his commitment to self-serving logorrhea, his ability to wriggle his way out of self-inflicted jams is far from absolute — particularly when it comes to the way he speaks about women. It was, after all, his boasts about sexually assaulting women as “a star” that nearly ended his first presidential run in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election. More recently, he’s been ordered to pay millions in damages to author E. Jean Carroll after defaming her over allegations that he’d sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. And now, as he once again runs for office against an accomplished female candidate, Trump’s comments about — and attitudes toward — women are back in the spotlight as both a personal and electoral liability.
Just what has the former President said about the women in his political, social, and familial circles? Here are 87 examples of how Donald Trump talks to, and about, women:
“Kamala is mentally impaired.” [September 29, 2024]
“Retarded.” [September 29, 2024]
“They put her in, and she somehow — a woman — somehow she’s doing better than [President Joe Biden] did.” [September 18, 2024]
“She’s a Marxist. Everybody knows she’s a Marxist.” [September 10, 2024]
“I am much better looking than Kamala Harris.” [August 17, 2024]
“She was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bum. A failed vice president in a failed administration.” [July 27, 2024]
“She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic. She’s so fu*king bad” [July 3, 2024]
“I see the same basic level of competence as [President Joe Biden]. I would define her in a very similar matter that I define him” [July 9, 2024]
“If [Biden] had picked someone even halfway competent they would have bounced him from office years ago, but they can’t because she’s gonna be their second choice” [July 9, 2024]
“This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way. I thought that wasn’t even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don’t think you could get worse. And totally unlikeable” [Oct. 8, 2020]
“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]
“Very, very nasty … the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the U.S. Senate.” [Aug. 11, 2020]
On 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley
“Nimbra doesn’t have what it takes” [Jan. 19, 2024]
“Birdbrain doesn’t have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job” [Sept. 29, 2023]
On former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
“[GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s] China loving wife, Coco Chao!” [Sept. 30, 2022]
On “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin
“That is one dumb woman. Sorry. I’m sorry, women, she’s a dummy.” [October 9, 2024]
On “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg
“She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting. She was so dirty. Every word was filthy, dirty. What a loser she is.” [October 9, 2024]
On Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis
“She was out of her mind” [Jan. 9, 2024]
On Casey DeSantis, wife of 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Ron DeSantis
“I know more about him than anybody other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign” [Nov. 8, 2022]
On House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali)
“She’s turned on him like a dog. She’s as crazy as a bed bug” [July 20, 2024]
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” [September 29, 2023]
On Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“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
“Horseface” [Oct. 16, 2018]
“I never liked horseface. That wouldn’t be the one. There is no one. We have a great First Lady.” [March 25, 2023]
On the #MeToo movement
“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]
“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
“A crazed, crying lowlife” and a “dog.” [Aug. 14, 2018]
On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
“An extraordinarily low IQ person.” [June 25, 2018]
On Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
“[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
“You know, you’re in such good shape. Beautiful.” [July 13, 2017]
