# Donald Trump the creepy father **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422 "2006-03-07T20:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/1 "2006-03-07T20:12:47Z")
Ew. [Click](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187065,00.html) From his appearance on The View, regarding a hypothetical of his daughter Ivanka posing in Playboy: > [@](#): > > “If she posed, it would be fine. But it depends on what’s inside the magazine,” Trump answered. > > “Although she does have a very nice figure,” he said. “I’ve said if she wasn’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” 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.) Of course, I’d do her, but I’m not her father. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/2 "2006-03-07T20:21:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/3 "2006-03-07T20:25:26Z")
What’s wrong with looking at your offspring acknowledging that they are sexual entities? He didn’t say that he’d take her out back for some father-daughter bonding. He acknowledged that she is attractive. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/4 "2006-03-07T20:34:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/5 "2006-03-07T20:42:17Z")
I’d do her. I’d get all her cash if I did her, right? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/6 "2006-03-07T20:49:26Z")
Ivanka Trump… Sounds like a line out of Young Frankenstein. \*Yes, yes, say it… Ivanka Trump! _horse neigh_\* ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/7 "2006-03-07T20:55:59Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > I can totally see this being said as just a fatherly comment, no weirdness meant or implied. I can accept that as a possibility. But he’s always kinda creeped me out, so just for consistency, I’m going to stick with “ew”. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/8 "2006-03-07T21:21:05Z")
> [@McNew](#): > > 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. She’s mini-him. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/9 "2006-03-08T07:01:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/10 "2006-03-08T09:43:26Z")
> [@Greenback](#): > > **What’s wrong with looking at your offspring acknowledging that they are sexual entities?** > > He didn’t say that he’d take her out back for some father-daughter bonding. He acknowledged that she is attractive. ( **bolding** mine) You know, I agree with you 100%, but did you have to word it like that? I mean, Geez!! **Greenback** Just…Geez! I’m gonna soak my brain in bleach now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/11 "2006-03-09T00:45:12Z")
Oh, I so wish that Ivanka Had joked back: “Dad, I wouldn’t date you even if you were the richest man in the world!” HarHar. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/12 "2006-03-09T06:28:55Z")
Maybe they could double date with Jessica Simpson and _her_ dad… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/13 "2006-03-09T15:16:51Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/14 "2006-03-09T15:42:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/15 "2006-03-09T16:13:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 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. Justine made a good point; _I’d_ do Jason – he ain’t related to me no way, no how. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/16 "2006-03-09T18:05:51Z")
I didn’t see anything out of line. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/17 "2006-03-09T21:22:33Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Ivanka Trump… Sounds like a line out of Young Frankenstein. > \*Yes, yes, say it… Ivanka Trump! “Taffeta, darling!” ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/18 "2006-03-09T21:26:55Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > 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! 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. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/19 "2006-03-10T22:56:42Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Ivanka Trump… Sounds like a line out of Young Frankenstein. > \*Yes, yes, say it… Ivanka Trump! > > _horse neigh_\* Or Austin Powers: “My name is Ivanka. _Ivanka Trumpalot_.” Aaaaaaaaallllmost works ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422/20 "2006-03-10T23:07:43Z")
He gets progressively creepier, but I’d suggest that he likes having his own TV show and drums up controversy intentionally for the sake of publicity. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of his daughter before. Having seen it, I gotta say, I’d date her even is she were a mere millionairess. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-creepy-father/347422.md?page=2)