Trump sold his stakes in the pageant soon after.In a new BuzzFeed News report, four former 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant contestants claim Donald Trump entered their changing room. NBC and Univision dropped the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from their schedules in 2015, in response to Trump’s comments on illegal Mexican immigrants during the speech that launched his presidential campaign. citizen who said she will vote for Clinton in November. Machado said she gained about 12 pounds after the pageant, and that Trump called her “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy,” insulting her ethnicity and weight. The allegations come just two weeks after Trump’s behavior toward a former Miss Universe led coverage of the first presidential debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.Īfter Alicia Machado, who grew up in Venezuela, was named Miss Universe in 1996, she gained “a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem,” Trump told Fox News last month. Some contestants were as young as 15, the women told BuzzFeed News.
Trump owned the Miss USA pageant from 1996 to 2015, and has been described acting in a similar way by other contestants.īuzzFeed News reported Wednesday that four contestants in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, which is operated by the same organization that runs Miss USA, said Trump had barged into dressing rooms unannounced, while contestants were changing. “And so I sort of get away with things like that.” Different pageants, similar allegationsĭixon said Trump's statements were more than just boasting. “You know they’re standing there with no clothes,” Trump said in 2005. That 2005 clip was quickly followed up with instances of Trump boasting on the Howard Stern Show about the benefits of owning a beauty pageant.
Other girls were naked.”ĭixon's claims came days after an audio-and-video clip emerged in which Trump bragged about making unwanted sexual advances on women. “There was no second to put a robe on, or any sort of clothing, or anything. “He just came strolling right in,” she said. “Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant.”ĭixon, who grew up in Phoenix but now lives in Los Angeles, first met Trump while she and other Miss USA contestants were changing into bikinis for a dress rehearsal. “I’m telling you, Donald Trump owned the pageant for the reason to utilize his power to get around beautiful women,” Dixon told CBS 2 Los Angeles this week. Tasha Dixon, who competed in the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant, told a Los Angeles TV station Trump used his status to surround himself with attractive women. A former Miss Arizona USA has added another allegation to the growing file about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's behavior toward women, saying that he walked into a backstage dressing room that was full of naked contestants at a 2001 pageant, according to multiple reports.
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