Here are two of the stranger stories to ever appear about a major presidential candidate weeks before Election Day.
TPM
Trump Pressured Second Wife to Pose Nude for Playboy
In a totally unexpected development, we learn today that back in the early 90s Donald Trump pressured his then-girlfriend, future wife and futurer ex-wife to pose nude inPlayboy. Trump even negotiated a mega payday for the nude photo shoot. In the end, Maples refused.
NYMag:
Trump Made a Cameo in a Playboy Soft-core Porn Video
BuzzFeed News reports that Donald Trump made an appearance in a soft-core porn video produced by Playboy in 2000, making him the first major-party presidential candidate in American history to have appeared in a porn video. BuzzFeed stresses that the appearance in Playboy Video Centerfold: Playmate 2000 Bernaola Twins is “relatively benign” since he does not appear in an explicit scene, but the footage nonetheless emerged on the same day that Trump had asked the country to “check out” a (nonexistent) sex tape featuring former Miss Universe Alicia Machado in a late-night tweet, which made him the first major-party presidential candidate in American history to ask voters to watch a sex tape, as well.
The scene in which Trump appears has him welcoming several Playboy playmates to New York, where they have come to look for the 2000 Playmate of the Year. “Beauty is beauty, and let’s see what happens with New York,” Trump says before he pops a bottle of Champagne onto the playmates’ limo. BuzzFeed notes that other parts of the video, which was marketed as a “sensual journey of discovery,” include “fully nude women posing in sexual positions, dancing naked, touching themselves while naked, touching each other sensually, rubbing honey on themselves, taking a bath, and dressing in costumes.”
I don’t have much to add other than I am so glad these stories didn’t come out until after that sanctimonious twerp Ted Cruz gave Trump his endorsement. File these away for 2020.