Trump attacks former Miss Universe who ‘gained a massive amount of weight’ and had ‘attitude’
NEW YORK
Donald Trump launched a deeply personal attack Tuesday morning, September 27, on Alicia Machado, the 1996 Miss Universe winner who has accused him of calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” because she’s Latina.
Hillary Clinton cited these comments in the final minutes of the first presidential debate on Monday night, September 26, along with other unflattering comments Trump has made about women. Soon after the debate, Clinton posted a video on Twitter featuring Machado speaking Spanish as she describes how Trump would call her “fat” and “ugly” and how she was afraid of him.
The ad also features footage from the 1990’s of Trump saying in an interview that Machado went from 117 or 118 pounds to 160 or 170 and commenting:
“So this is somebody that likes to eat.”
“This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers,” Clinton said, as Trump shouted out that he never said those things, “who has said women don’t deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.
And one of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest.
He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.”
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