Last year, nearly two decades after he'd accosted author E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room, a New York jury ruled former President Donald Trump was liable for sexual abuse , battery, and defamation against his victim, and ordered him to pay five million dollars in damages. The verdict was informed in no small part by Trump's public comments about the incident, which he emphatically denied by claiming Carroll was simply not his "type.
" One day after Carroll won her lawsuit, the former president appeared on CNN, where he denounced Carroll as a "whack job" whose winnings were a "rigged deal" against him. Carroll, in response, sued Trump again, this time for ten million dollars. Although Trump's comments are perhaps his most costly remarks pertaining to women, they are far from alone.
Here are just some of the questionable, offensive, and overtly sexist things the former president has said about women: On Vice President Kamala Harris "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 Bid.