# Trump has Suggested Americans Google a Sex Tape **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281 "2016-09-30T13:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/61 "2016-09-30T17:54:17Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > The clip I saw would not have been from broadcast TV, at least not in the United States. It would have run afoul of FCC rules. No not in the US. But when you google up a nice sex tape do you expect the participants to still be wearing their shirts and all the “action” covered with a blanket? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/62 "2016-09-30T18:30:56Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > As I understand it, Trump chose to run for President and thus has opened himself and his entire life to the scrutiny and public vetting process of running for POTUS. (post shortened) Exactly. Alicia Machado made some kind of deal with ol’ Hillary to rehash the past. I assume they both expect to gain something from their cooperation. Trump’s and Machado’s past are fair game in the political area. Life’s a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/63 "2016-09-30T18:37:14Z")
Yes, that’s how politics is played. You establish relationships. You make deals. You work together. You win. Too bad DJT hasn’t figured that out yet. He’s stuck on step #2 without even thinking that step 1 is necessary. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/64 "2016-09-30T18:51:30Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > (post shortened) > > Exactly. > > Alicia Machado made some kind of deal with ol’ Hillary to rehash the past. I assume they both expect to gain something from their cooperation. Trump’s and Machado’s past are fair game in the political area. Life’s a bitch. Trump insulted and publicly humiliated Machado long before she ever did anything to him. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/65 "2016-09-30T18:52:46Z")
I won’t watch any sex tape that has anything even remotely to do with Drumpf. Even the thought of Drumpf can kill the mood faster than than all the world’s baseball stats & the face of your second grade math teacher combined. 😕☹ ---
**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:** [September 30, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/66 "2016-09-30T18:53:35Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Am I missing the link between “She has a sex tape” and “Therefore, calling her Miss Piggy is perfectly fine”? This has been what I’ve been thinking the whole time. To follow Trump’s logic: “Sure I called that Black man a nigger. But you know, he’s a horrible person, so it’s all good!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/67 "2016-09-30T18:55:56Z")
You know that “Gold Star” family, the Khans? Go look up their sex tape. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/68 "2016-09-30T19:00:08Z")
Trump is obsessed with petty feuds and trying to come out on top in every social interaction. Is this a man working hard on mastering all of the responsibilities involved in being president? He sure as hell doesn’t seem to be immersed in geopolitics or domestic economic policy. He spends all of his spare time trying to win a goddamn popularity contest. A serious candidate would either have dismissed the Machado affair as irrelevant or magnanimously congratulated her on becoming a citizen and wished her well in the future. But obviously the stupid, fat maid had the temerity to question his awesomeness and had to be put in her place. His instability disqualifies him. His refusal to release his tax returns means he can’t be vetted by the American people. He doesn’t have the temperament to be president of the Hair Club of America, much less prez of the USA. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/69 "2016-09-30T19:06:28Z")
I’m trying to relate all this to the policy issues our country is debating. Rosie O’Donnell was relevant to … what? military intervention in Syria? Where does Alicia Machado fit in? Is she key to the difference between the candidates’ fiscal plans? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/70 "2016-09-30T19:46:54Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Trump is obsessed with petty feuds and trying to come out on top in every social interaction. Is this a man working hard on mastering all of the responsibilities involved in being president? He sure as hell doesn’t seem to be immersed in geopolitics or domestic economic policy. He spends all of his spare time trying to win a goddamn popularity contest. > > A serious candidate would either have dismissed the Machado affair as irrelevant or magnanimously congratulated her on becoming a citizen and wished her well in the future. But obviously the stupid, fat maid had the temerity to question his awesomeness and had to be put in her place. All of which would be merely good television in the context of a brash Barnumesque\* glitzy-sleazy reality-TV celebrity promoting a beauty pageant. Trump’s fundamental problem is that he’s trying to attain about the most serious, responsible and challenging political position in the world, with no awareness that it really involves anything more than being a brash glitzy-sleazy reality-TV celebrity. - A comparison that is actually not quite fair to notorious showman P. T. Barnum, who in fact made a pretty decent state- and local-level politician in the CT state legislature and as mayor of Bridgeport. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/71 "2016-09-30T20:11:14Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I’m not sure what argument you’re advancing, so I have no idea if I wish to defend against it. > > Probably not. > > But just to help, here are some guesses I have about your argument: > > [ul] > [li]It’s wrong to call this a sex tape[/li][li]It’s wrong to use the existence of a sex tape against an opponent[/li][li]It’s wrong to consider Machado fair game as an opponent[/li][li]It’s wrong for Trump to try to be President[/li][/ul] > > Any of those close? C’mon, Bricker. Turn it around. Do you think Trump’s “Google it” shenanigans are wise and decent and reasonable actions? If you have a problem with them, what’s the problem? It looks here like you’re attempting to trick the OP into a slight sloppiness in describing the problem, so that you can attack the sloppiness in describing the problem. But that’s not a reasonable approach. Instead, consider the situation yourself. If you see no problem at all with Trump’s actions here, say so. Otherwise, how would YOU describe the problem? Here, by the way, is my description: it is never\* acceptable to attempt to discredit a person by publicly humiliating them with sexual accusations that describe a legal, sexual act between consenting adults. Silencing through slut-shaming is obnoxious behavior, and it’s what Trump appears to be going for here. - If you come up with a bizarre counterexample, I’m willing to change this “never” to “almost never.” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/72 "2016-09-30T20:18:46Z")
> [@Corry\_El](#): > > “It’s not really a sex tape” didn’t seem to be the theme of the OP, but rather “it’s beneath us to speak of such things in an august presidential campaign!”. And among people who would conceivably GAS about Machado in terms of who they vote for, they probably _will_ follow the link, and be disappointed apparently. There are porn sites with videos they claim are her, but they are not. But if people go googling for Machado sex tapes, they are likely to go there instead of the real tape. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/73 "2016-09-30T20:26:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There are porn sites with videos they claim are her, but they are not. But if people go googling for Machado sex tapes, they are likely to go there instead of the real tape. Some people but after doing a video search I have a feeling a lot more people would choose the youtube links rather than the pornhub ones. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/74 "2016-09-30T20:30:45Z")
This “pornhub” of which you speak…? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/75 "2016-09-30T22:18:27Z")
I was amazed at how easily Hillary jerked Trump around during the debate. She got him talking about Rosie O’Donnell while she was talking about taking away Iran’s uranium! She got him to defend calling a beauty queen fat etc. during a freakin’ presidential debate!!! But good Lord, he is still publicly chewing this bait four days later? It defies belief, and I already couldn’t believe people would vote for this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/76 "2016-09-30T22:23:58Z")
For anybody too lazy to google … [https://www.DELETEbuzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn?utm\_term=.au9Q5dGBe5#.ma7oLq36rL](https://www.DELETEbuzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn?utm_term=.au9Q5dGBe5#.ma7oLq36rL) [mildly NSFW, so link broken. Also, includes reference to Trump in the same sentence as nudity, so may be distressing to some readers] ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/77 "2016-09-30T22:30:44Z")
Eh, seems I can’t break a link without breaking the internet. It’s the top link here at the moment, anyway: [Andrew Kaczynski on BuzzFeed](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski) ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/78 "2016-09-30T22:44:28Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > This “pornhub” of which you speak…? Xhamster is much better, and equally NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/79 "2016-09-30T22:50:33Z")
Youtube link: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VOXOIHggnc) Includes split screen to what I assume was an after show interview/reaction to watching herself. Donald is right, it’s disgusting. There’s nothing more disgusting than a hot latina whispering dirty sex talk. So gross, am I right guys? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281/80 "2016-09-30T22:57:42Z")
Trump has appeared in an actual porn (well, Playboy) film. [No kidding.](http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/30/donald-trump-reportedly-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-video.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-suggested-americans-google-a-sex-tape/767281.md?page=5)