From his appearance on The View, regarding a hypothetical of his daughter Ivanka posing in Playboy:
You’ve said that, have you, you miscreant? Y’know, the hair’s bad enough. Add in the megalomania of colossal proportions, and you have a man for whom I have very little respect. But now he tosses out that he thinks his daughter is hot? That he’d date her?
How is she not looking at him and thinking, “Ew, you freak.”
(Anybody else wonder if he’s made her tattoo “TRUMP” on her ass? He likes to attach his name to pretty much everything he owns or has created.)
I think it really depended on how he said it. I can totally see this being said as just a fatherly comment, no weirdness meant or implied. He could have been joking; he can’t be unaware that lots of people make fun of him for dating much-younger women.
People who watched the show tell me that in context, it was clear he was only joking and that he said it for the laugh. Which evidently followed.
And I don’t see what everyone else sees- I don’t think she’s particularly attractive. I guess she’s not unattractive, but I wouldn’t give her a 2nd look if I passed her on the street.
Justine Bateman and Moon Unit Zappa both said the same thing of their brothers (Jason and Dweezil respectively) and I wasn’t bothered by it. It is somehow weirder for a dad, but… I’ll give him a pass on this one.
My step-mom once told me how weird it was to watch your sons grow up and basically turn into the spitting image of someone you thought was really hot at their age (i.e., their father). I thought she was wacko until my own son hit puberty. She’s right. It’s weird. I don’t want to think of my son as hot, but he looks a whole lot like his father, and I found his father hot as a young man…leads to some awkward cognitive dissonance!
As the father of an absolutely beautiful little girl, normally I’d be quite repulsed by the notion of a father viewing his daughter as anything other than his ultimate object of personal responsibility and decorum.
However, Donald Trump being the megalomaniac and ultimate attention whore that he is, I suspect his comments were probaby driven simply by using any means at his disposal to keep his mug and rug in section E of the paper.
Even if that’s true though it still fails to cast his comments in anything even approaching a better light.
I’m reminded of the prudish reaction of one friend when another made a similar comment about a 16 or 18 year old beauty who passed by. The first one said something to effect that he shouldn’t say things like that adding, “After all, she’s someones daughter.” To which the other replied, “Hell, my wife was someone’s daughter.”
I remember a day a few years back. My son was working as a lifeguard, so was outside a lot. his hair’d gotten bleached by the sun. He rollerbladed over to my office, wearing the rollerblades, shorts, no shirt. I realized at that moment that as he was out and about people were lusting after him. I hated it.
