The 1997 teen pageant - Trump’s first as owner - was held on South Padre Island, Texas. The Miss Universe Organization, which runs Miss Teen USA, declined to comment. The Trump campaign and the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment. Until now it was never alleged that this behavior extended to the teen pageant, in which contestants can be as old as 19 or as young as 14. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.” ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. “No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it.
“I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” Trump told Howard Stern in recordings released Saturday by CNN. Trump, who owned the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants from 1996 until last year, has publicly bragged about invading beauty queen dressing rooms, calling it one of his prerogatives of ownership.
Trump dismissed his comments on the tape as “locker room talk,” but it has put his treatment of women under intense focus. Of the 15 women who were interviewed, none accused Trump of saying anything sexually explicit or of making physical contact in the dressing room.Įver since the release last week of a 2005 tape in which Trump boasted about grabbing women “by the pussy” and said he “did try and fuck” a married woman, his campaign has been reeling. Thirty-four declined to talk or could not be reached. Some said they do not believe he could have been there.ĭiscussion of Trump entering the room arose among the women themselves last weekend in a private Facebook group after BuzzFeed News reported that a contestant in an adult pageant said Trump had walked into the changing room when “ we were all naked.” The Facebook group is open only to some former contestants in the 1997 pageant, according to several women who are in it and who described the exchange about Trump to BuzzFeed News.Īltogether, BuzzFeed News attempted to contact 49 of the 51 contestants at that pageant. Eleven of that year’s contestants reached by BuzzFeed News did not recall seeing Trump in the dressing room.
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