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tulipsandroses

(8,301 posts)
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 07:56 PM Aug 2025

If you heard your 17 yr old daughter's boss talk about her like this, what would you think?

Watch the video to get the full context.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wqPi0o1T1mg?si=C56F2xG6A3YoJtdY


This article is from 2017

Newly Surfaced Video Reveals Donald Trump Boasting About Hiring 'Beautiful' Teenage Waitress

A newly uncovered video of Donald Trump from before he was president shows the former businessman bragging about hiring a teenage waitress just “because she was so pretty.”
In the footage unearthed by NowThis, Trump is shown lecturing at a seminar, where a woman in the audience asks him how many jets he owns and how she can apply to be his flight attendant.

Trump invites the woman to join him onstage and as she makes her way toward him — to the sound of catcalls — he says, “I think she’s hired.”
Trump then embraces the woman, puts his arm around her waist and tells her, “You’re hired.”
With the woman still by his side, Trump launches into a story about the teenage waitress he hired for her looks.

“You know, I had a case, it was very interesting. A beautiful girl, who was 17 or 18, applied to be a waitress,” Trump said. “She’s so beautiful, she’s like a world-class beauty.” “And my people came and she said, ‘Mr. Trump, she has no experience.’ So I interviewed her anyway because she was so pretty. And I said, ‘Let me ask you, do you have any experience?’ She goes, ‘No, sir.’ I said, ‘When can you start?’ ”

After concluding the story, Trump kisses the woman from the audience on the cheek and promises that she can “work on [his] plane anytime.”
Trump tells the crowd that if the woman actually worked on his plane it would be “like a death wish” for him, and goes on to equate his feelings about women to alcohol addiction. “This would be my form of alcoholism,” he said.

https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-teenage-waitress-beautiful-video/
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If you heard your 17 yr old daughter's boss talk about her like this, what would you think? (Original Post) tulipsandroses Aug 2025 OP
In the end it will be his own blabbermouth that finally malaise Aug 2025 #1
He's a braggart and a psychopath so that makes sense to me too, malaise. littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #12
I would think the boss is a despicable sleazeball, which is what Trump has always been. sop Aug 2025 #2
Want proof? malaise Aug 2025 #3
Trump and Epstein sound like sex addicts. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #4
Does "sex addiction" sound like the excessive boasting they engaged in? The selling of underage children? Hekate Aug 2025 #16
Make no mistake, they are vicious, brutal dangerous psychopaths. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #28
they sound more like a couple of pimps fighting over the girls and territory William Gustafson Aug 2025 #25
They were pimps fighting over girls and territory. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #29
I read that Epstein demanded sex multiple times everyday. yardwork Aug 2025 #33
Astute and reasonable observation. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #34
And the two scenarios aren't mutually exclusive. yardwork Aug 2025 #38
The exact same godfather scene keeps flashing in my head too. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #39
Only in this case, Trump offered nothing in return. yardwork Aug 2025 #41
Trump could have promised something knowing he Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #43
I would like to hear from Giuffre's father dhol82 Aug 2025 #5
Really malaise Aug 2025 #6
I don't think he was involved. But Virginia spoke of a " troubled life" at a very young age that caused her to run away tulipsandroses Aug 2025 #11
Women are regarded as property the world over. It's been like that for eons. ... littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #13
Agreed. But its especially weird to me that a grown ass man would be talking this way about teenagers. tulipsandroses Aug 2025 #19
It isn't weird to less people than it should be, tulipsandroses. littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #21
Men rape toddlers. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #36
Women were considered property to be sold/bribed into marriage. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #46
We have seen the most powerful people kiss Trump ass. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #35
That's the feeling I got dhol82 Aug 2025 #44
I wouldn't believe a word he said. yardwork Aug 2025 #42
It sounds like he is stuck in the 1960's. markodochartaigh Aug 2025 #7
OMG Skittles Aug 2025 #8
I could write a book about all the sexism I faced. llmart Aug 2025 #10
I could too. From the age of five years old I've had men making inappropriate... littlemissmartypants Aug 2025 #14
Same here. murielm99 Aug 2025 #27
I was in the Air Force in 1975 Skittles Aug 2025 #18
LOL malaise Aug 2025 #31
Why is anybody surprised by this? mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #9
If TSF (or anyone else) talked about my Daughter Seinan Sensei Aug 2025 #15
Precisely. B.See Aug 2025 #20
Trump said "I'll be dating her in 10 years" about a very young girl in front of her dad Skittles Aug 2025 #26
His incel knuckle dragging cult loves him for this shit. rubbersole Aug 2025 #17
He validates people's worst instincts. Heidi Aug 2025 #23
To begin with, he is such a compulsive liar misanthrope Aug 2025 #22
That's his dream. Not the girl, but being on a big stage making vulgar comments and people applauding him. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #24
Oink Oink (R) BoRaGard Aug 2025 #30
So in Trumpspeak, is "17 or 18" actually "16 or 17" but he thinks it sounds better if he gets "18" out there? tanyev Aug 2025 #32
Michael Wolff said Epstein thought it was trump that ratted him out. Not sure how. tulipsandroses Aug 2025 #45
Sexual Predator Kid Berwyn Aug 2025 #37
I sure as hell wouldn't vote for him. yardwork Aug 2025 #40

malaise

(298,091 posts)
1. In the end it will be his own blabbermouth that finally
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 08:02 PM
Aug 2025

does him in. He’s on tape all over the place😀

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
16. Does "sex addiction" sound like the excessive boasting they engaged in? The selling of underage children?
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 10:59 PM
Aug 2025

The monetary profit and gain? The power trips? (Just to be clear, Ghislaine was also up to her neck in this profitable enterprise)

No?

Then what we’ve got is a crime ring of psychopaths, none of whom stopped until they were made to stop via prison or death or both. Since Trump is neither in prison nor dead, guess what I still think he’s up to when opportunity knocks.

They’re not sex addicts. They are psychopaths who get off on hurting children and women.

Irish_Dem

(82,411 posts)
28. Make no mistake, they are vicious, brutal dangerous psychopaths.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 04:46 AM
Aug 2025

But the way they talk, there is an addictive quality to their rapes.
They get a high on the brutality and cruelty.

People can have more than one pathology and Trump is a complex set of insanities.

I am a retired mental health clinician and my job was to identify and diagnose all the
pathologies present. And none of it is an excuse, they are explanations.

Irish_Dem

(82,411 posts)
29. They were pimps fighting over girls and territory.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 04:47 AM
Aug 2025

That is very obvious.
But also obviously they were much more than pimps.
They are sadistic cruel psychopaths.

yardwork

(69,676 posts)
33. I read that Epstein demanded sex multiple times everyday.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 09:42 AM
Aug 2025

Ghislaine was responsible for supplying him with young girls. He required his staff to provide fresh towels, new razors, new lotions, etc. All day long his staff was changing out the supplies while Ghislaine delivered young girls to him.

It's one reason I think it's plausible that Epstein really did kill himself. A man like that, who was used to complete control over his environment, used to being supplied with rape victims all day long, possibly OCD about fresh supplies - living in prison must have been hell for him. It's possible he paid the guards to look the other way.

Irish_Dem

(82,411 posts)
34. Astute and reasonable observation.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:12 AM
Aug 2025

Narcissists and psychopaths are not usually suicidal
But if they are backed into a corner and face consequences for their crimes it is a possibility.
Especially in the case of Epstein for the reasons you cite.

I also assume he was heavy into drugs
And was not getting his usual supply.

yardwork

(69,676 posts)
38. And the two scenarios aren't mutually exclusive.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:29 AM
Aug 2025

Supposedly Bill Barr visited Epstein in prison. Trump loves gangster movies. I can imagine a Godfather II scenario where Barr says, "Look, Jeffrey. We don't want this to go to trial. We're not going to give you any breaks. You're going to sit here in this miserable hole for the rest of your life. But I'll arrange to pay the guards to look the other way. This is the best solution."

In fact, there's a scene in the Silence of the Lambs where Hannibal Lecter talks another prisoner into killing himself. Maybe that's why Trump talks about Lecter all the time.

Normally I'd think this was all far-fetched but we're talking about Trump. He loves drama.

yardwork

(69,676 posts)
41. Only in this case, Trump offered nothing in return.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:34 AM
Aug 2025

In Godfather II the gangster is promised that his family will be cared for.

Trump would enjoy offering nothing in return. He likes that.

Irish_Dem

(82,411 posts)
43. Trump could have promised something knowing he
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 11:09 AM
Aug 2025

Would never keep the promise.

Like protecting Maxwell
And then sending her to prison.

dhol82

(9,661 posts)
5. I would like to hear from Giuffre's father
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 08:09 PM
Aug 2025

From something I read earlier today, he was employed at MaraLago and got the spa job for his daughter.
Did he know anything? Can’t believe he would traffic his own daughter.

malaise

(298,091 posts)
6. Really
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 08:12 PM
Aug 2025

We had one arrested recently who was pimping his barely teenage daughter and step daughter to taxi men.

tulipsandroses

(8,301 posts)
11. I don't think he was involved. But Virginia spoke of a " troubled life" at a very young age that caused her to run away
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:51 PM
Aug 2025
What happened that first day in 2000 that Giuffre (known as Virginia Roberts then) met Epstein after Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her reading a book about massage therapy at Mar-a-Lago?
Roberts has said she was either 15 or 16 when she sat outside the Mar-a-Lago locker room outdoors in the summer of 2000 as she looked at the first book she'd ever read about massage therapy.

Virginia Roberts was working to get her general equivalency diploma after having attended four high schools in Palm Beach County, including Royal Palm Beach, Wellington and Forest Hill, according to her school transcript included in court documents. And she'd just come back home after running away from foster care and being held by Miami sex predator Ron Eppinger until he was arrested.

Her father, Sky Roberts, who worked maintenance at the estate, has testified that he had helped her get a job there. He hoped for better things for his daughter. Sky Roberts testified that when his daughter brought it up, he said, "Well that's great, you know, because learning new jobs is all about life."

Roberts' father gave her a ride to El Brillo Way between 4 and 5 p.m. that day after she finished work. He said Epstein came out of the house to speak with him. "He was very cordial, very nice," Sky Roberts said. He was never invited into nor did he go into Epstein's home.



https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/08/04/virginia-giuffre-met-ghislaine-maxwell-mar-a-lago/85472989007/

littlemissmartypants

(34,404 posts)
13. Women are regarded as property the world over. It's been like that for eons. ...
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 10:27 PM
Aug 2025

Elon openly made a statement to that effect recently. It's more common that female children are abused by family members than not. Hard to reconcile, but there's plenty of research and proof that supports the notion.

tulipsandroses

(8,301 posts)
19. Agreed. But its especially weird to me that a grown ass man would be talking this way about teenagers.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:51 AM
Aug 2025

The video is dated 2006. So he would have been 60 yrs old then. Gushing about a girl that might have been 17 yrs old?? Really?
In my world, at best that's a creepy old man.

littlemissmartypants

(34,404 posts)
21. It isn't weird to less people than it should be, tulipsandroses.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:55 AM
Aug 2025

It's beyond weird to me. I've lived it. When it's a child, that man's a pedophile and they're everywhere.

Irish_Dem

(82,411 posts)
35. We have seen the most powerful people kiss Trump ass.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:19 AM
Aug 2025

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Not hard to Imagine a regular person being bribed or threatened into keeping Trump happy.

All the employees at MAL had to know that Trump was trafficking young girls. The father knew what was going on.

Skittles

(172,948 posts)
8. OMG
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 08:19 PM
Aug 2025

the series MAD MEN featured an episode with someone in blackface - the episode included a notice regarding the accepted racism at that time.......yet not once did I see such a warning regarding the rampant sexism displayed in EVERY episode

llmart

(17,729 posts)
10. I could write a book about all the sexism I faced.
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:49 PM
Aug 2025

I worked in offices from the time I was 17. Most of my experience was as a clerical/steno or secretary or executive secretary. I worked in engineering departments for quite a number of years which of course were all men. The comments and behavior were abhorrent. They weren't all like that, but the nice gentlemanly guys always looked out for me. Yes, it was like Mad Men.

littlemissmartypants

(34,404 posts)
14. I could too. From the age of five years old I've had men making inappropriate...
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 10:33 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Tue Aug 5, 2025, 12:57 AM - Edit history (1)

comments, suggestions and actions toward me. Most of them were illegal and some were just bizarre.

Skittles

(172,948 posts)
18. I was in the Air Force in 1975
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:30 PM
Aug 2025

then worked in IT around mostly guys

I ALWAYS held my own though - any guy who ventured into that nasty territory found out the hard way I was NOT to be messed with; no INDEED.

malaise

(298,091 posts)
31. LOL
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:23 AM
Aug 2025

Most of us could do the same.
I had a co-worker who kept telling me what he would like to do- the third time he said it, I told him that if he was that interested I’d have to call his wife and let her know. He never ever made another such comment to. me.😀

mwmisses4289

(4,749 posts)
9. Why is anybody surprised by this?
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:46 PM
Aug 2025

This is the man who made lewd comments about his baby daughter by his second wife.

Seinan Sensei

(1,647 posts)
15. If TSF (or anyone else) talked about my Daughter
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 10:39 PM
Aug 2025

… and definitely if he touched her the way he touched others … TSF (or anyone else) would be picking themselves up off the sidewalk.

Someone would be going to the hospital.
It might be me.
But that kind of behavior, that kind of language, would never go unanswered.

Skittles

(172,948 posts)
26. Trump said "I'll be dating her in 10 years" about a very young girl in front of her dad
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:18 AM
Aug 2025

my dad would have kicked his ass right then and there

rubbersole

(11,280 posts)
17. His incel knuckle dragging cult loves him for this shit.
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:04 PM
Aug 2025

They wish they could be just like him.

misanthrope

(9,631 posts)
22. To begin with, he is such a compulsive liar
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:31 AM
Aug 2025

that he likely made up that story on the spot. It would be completely within character.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
24. That's his dream. Not the girl, but being on a big stage making vulgar comments and people applauding him.
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 01:57 AM
Aug 2025

tanyev

(49,701 posts)
32. So in Trumpspeak, is "17 or 18" actually "16 or 17" but he thinks it sounds better if he gets "18" out there?
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 08:43 AM
Aug 2025

Like the source that talked to Page Six magazine in 2007 about Giufre: “a masseuse about 18 years old”. Sounds like “John Miller” or “John Baron” picked up the phone to call in that quote.

Meanwhile, the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach last night confirmed a Web site report that Epstein has been banned there. “He would use the spa to try to procure girls. But one of them, a masseuse about 18 years old, he tried to get her to do things,” a source told us. “Her father found out about it and went absolutely ape-[bleep]. Epstein’s not allowed back.” Epstein denies he is banned from Mar-a-Lago and says, in fact, he was recently invited to an event there.

https://pagesix.com/2007/10/15/sex-case-victims-lining-up/

tulipsandroses

(8,301 posts)
45. Michael Wolff said Epstein thought it was trump that ratted him out. Not sure how.
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 12:10 AM
Aug 2025

From all I've read, the 14 yr old told her parents what Epstein did and they went to the police. Perhaps this is what he meant? trump was calling up the papers to give them stories?
But its interesting that Epstein says he was not banned.

Kid Berwyn

(25,128 posts)
37. Sexual Predator
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 10:28 AM
Aug 2025

Talks like one. Acts like one. Is one.

Such people cannot be reformed.

And as long as they are allowed, they will continue to be sexual predators.

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