8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said

6. He’s sexist as hell.

When he’s not making high-dollar business deals or launching quixotic bids for the presidency, Trump spends time evaluating contestants for the Miss USA pageant, which he owns. In her 2009 book, former contestant Carrie Prejean wrote of the “humiliating” exercise of being trotted out in front of Trump so he could weed out the women he found insufficiently attractive. “Some of the girls were sobbing backstage after [Trump] left,” she wrote. “[I]t was as though we had been stripped bare.”

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Trump’s sexist practices and comments. This is the man who, in 2000, reportedly said, “I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.” 

7. He fancies himself a savior of the poor.

Trump said recently that “the people that like me best are poor people and middle-income people. . . The rich people don’t like me.”

“I would save the middle class,” he said. “I know what to do. Our jobs are all being taken out of our country.”

8. He once compared gay people to golf clubs.

Speaking about same-sex marriage in 2011, Trump told The New York Times, “It’s like in golf. . . A lot of people – I don’t want this to sound trivial – but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive.”

“It’s weird,” he went on. “You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And I hate it. I am a traditionalist.”

But don’t worry! He has “many fabulous friends who happen to be gay,” he says.