Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump reportedly referred to as his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris a “bitch” repeatedly, per reporting from the New York Occasions primarily based on two individuals who heard the comment on totally different events. Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung denied the remarks, saying, “That’s not language President Trump has used to explain Kamala” and it’s “not how the marketing campaign would characterize her.”
But, Trump has used this gendered slur to speak about ladies, or benefited from its use, all through his profession. And, he didn’t draw back from the language in 2016 when operating towards Hillary Clinton—lest all of us bear in mind the “TRUMP THAT BITCH” T-shirts that crammed his rallies. (The phrase additionally graced bumper stickers, yard signs, and bottles of hot sauce.)
At a New Hampshire rally throughout that marketing campaign, somebody within the crowd held up a “TRUMP THAT BITCH” bumper sticker, and the then-candidate appeared to identify it, stopping Trump in the course of his speech.
“This might solely occur at a Trump rally,” he stated after pointing, smiling, and laughing on the attendee. Then, after mentioning the pushback he acquired after not correcting a town hall attendee who insisted that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, Trump factors once more on the man within the crowd.
“Sir, you’re reprimanded, okay?” he stated earlier than throwing his arm within the air in a brushing-it-off movement. “However, we’re not throwing him out, proper people?”
Whereas there isn’t any conclusive historical past of Trump’s utilization of the misogynistic insult, he’s been reportedly using it for some time now.
Within the now notorious Entry Hollywood tape from 2005, the place Trump stated he might seize ladies “by the pussy” and “do something” to them as a result of he was a “star,” he additionally claimed he tried to sleep with a married lady to no avail, which upset him.
“I moved on her like a bitch. However I couldn’t get there,” Trump stated of the lady, including, “Then swiftly I see her, she’s now received the large phony tits and all the things. She’s completely modified her look.”
A 12 months later in 2006, Trump stated he wished then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a “bitch,” in line with reporting from the New York Day by day Information on the time and CNN’s truth examine in 2016.
“I want she was a bitch. I don’t care if she’s a stunning lady,” Trump stated. “I need any individual that may go and make offers. She goes to nations, however nothing ever occurs. Besides sound bites.”
In his final season internet hosting The Superstar Apprentice earlier than operating for president, Trump shared a submit from a viewer on Twitter, now X, that inspired him to oust former Miss USA winner Kenya Moore. “Do away with @KenyaMoore already @realDonaldTrump.” the submit reads. “She’s a bitch irrespective of who she’s with.”
Whereas in workplace, Trump reportedly referred to as then-German chancellor Angela Merkel “that bitch” throughout an Oval Workplace assembly about NATO and the US relationship with Germany, per Washington Submit reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s 2021 guide I Alone Can Repair It. A Trump spokesperson on the time denied that the president had made these remarks.
And, within the 2005 biographical guide The Artwork of Being the Donald, Trump said that his favourite a part of the film Pulp Fiction was when Samuel L. Jackson’s character “has his gun out within the diner and he tells the man to inform his girlfriend to close up.” Trump then quotes the lines, “Inform that bitch to be cool! Say ‘bitch be cool’!”
Trump additionally has a passion for calling males who he thinks wronged him a “son of a bitch,” hurling the phrase at a Florida man who allegedly put in his rally mic poorly, NFL players protesting racism, NBC’s Chuck Todd, somebody who might have been trying to rip him off when shopping for a aircraft, Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, and President Joe Biden, to call a number of.
The information that Trump reportedly referred to as Harris a “bitch” a number of occasions comes alongside a slew of insults the Republican nominee has used towards his opponent. Harris “can’t do an interview,” he claimed, as a result of she is “barely competent.” “She’s not good sufficient” to do a information convention, Trump has said.
And, pulling out considered one of his go-to phrases towards each Hillary Clinton and the vice president, Trump told FOX & Pals on Wednesday that he’ll be debating Harris in some unspecified time in the future, including that he “heard she’s kind of a nasty particular person however not a very good debater.”
