Trump has said some really shocking things about his daughter

Donald Trump is pretty well known for the shocking things he's said while stumping on the campaign trail or when speaking in the White House. Yet few know that some of the most appalling things this former president and television star has said have been about his daughter.

That's right. Trump has made a lot of awkward and lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka, but we only really know about some of them thanks to the investigative journalism of author Miles Taylor.

Revelations about Trumps’s comments regarding Ivanka were described by Taylor, a one-time Trump administration official who was in charge of the Department of Homeland Security and spoke previously about Trump’s sexism, in a tell-all 2023 book about the former president's behavior. 

In 2018, Taylor penned an op-ed for the New York Times anonymously talking about the resistance he and others in the former president's administration were mourning against Trump’s most dangerous policies and discussed what he saw as “erratic behavior.”

Taylor later revealed that he was the author behind the anonymous op-ed as well as the man who wrote the anonymous book 'A Warning', detailing the unique threat that Donald Trump posed to American democracy. But both paled in comparison to the work he released in 2023. 

In Taylor's newest book, 'Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy', he revealed a side of the former president that many knew existed but few thought would ever be exposed in the light of day—Trump’s awkward and creepy desire to be with his daughter Ivanka. 

According to an extract of the book quoted by Newsweek, Trump allegedly made several lurid and appalling remarks about Ivanka, including some about her appearance as well as comments on what he thought it might be like to sleep with his daughter.

“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," Taylor wrote in his book according to a June 2023 Newsweek report.

While Taylor’s allegations may seem difficult to prove, they were bolstered by the fact that it wasn't the first time the former president had made lewd comments about Ivanka in the public eye, one of the first of which came during a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone. 

“Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father,” Trump told reporter Paul Solotarff shortly after Solotarff met Ivanka, and there have been several other concerning comments long before that one. 

The Independent noted Trump once referred to his daughter Ivanka as a “piece of a**” in a 2003 interview on the Howard Stern Show and then later reaffirmed his view in 2004 when he was back on the show and questioned by Stern about his earlier remarks. 

Trump also once said his daughter had a nice figure while on The View and explained he would date Ivanka if he wasn’t her father. “I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her,” he said. “Isn’t that terrible? How terrible! Is that terrible?”

These types of comments reveal the former president’s sexism according to the Newsweek exposé on Taylor’s comments about Trump, and it wasn't just the former president's daughter that was the focus of Trump’s desires. 

Several staffers who served under Trump when he was in office have come forward since Trump left the White House and have commented on his behavior when he was the leader of the free world. 

Olivia Troye was an advisor to Mike Pence and told Newsweek in May 2023 that the former president’s improper treatment of female staffers in his administration was a well-known secret: "He did it openly and made the comments openly even in meetings."

Miles Taylor told Newsweek there were still “quite a few female leaders” from the former president's administration who “held their tongues about the unequal treatment they dealt with at best” and at worst stayed quite about the “absolute naked sexism they experienced.” 

All of this was important because it worked to alienate the most competent individuals in the Republican Party according to Taylor, individuals who likely won’t help Trump form a competent administration if he wins in 2024, making his possible second term more dangerous. 

"This man is closing the door to all kinds of potential talent, so you would expect even more dangerous people in a second term," Taylor said, adding Trump’s set a “vile tone” within the GOP and has “normalized pretty derisive views toward women in general.”