WATCH: Smart women don’t talk about feminism, Donald Trump says in 1998 interview Oct 31, 2016 | PERSONAL FREEDOMS, POLITICS AND OPINION, TRUMP PRESIDENCY | CREDIT: Screenshot, YouTube </p> <h2 class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3 graf--subtitle">In his view, truly successful women “do it without waving the banner of women’s liberation.”</h2> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">In a 1998 BBC interview, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump talked at length about his opinions on women — and said that in his view, truly successful women “go out and do it without waving the banner of women’s liberation.”</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">The interview is focused mainly on Trump’s 1997 book, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The Art of the Comeback</em>. The host of the show, Tim Sebastian, quotes to Trump a passage from the book, in which Trump says “women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers.” He then asks Trump if he has a “love-hate relationship” with women.</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Trump responds that he “might,” saying that in his view, it is “mostly a love relationship.” He then specifies that the “smart ones” are women who don’t openly advertise feminism or support for “women’s liberation.”</p> <blockquote class="graf graf--blockquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p"><p>“I feel that the smart ones are really the ones who go out and do it without waving the banner of women’s liberation. And if you look at the really successful women those are the ones that have not had to wave that big banner, they’ve just gone out and done it.”</p></blockquote> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote">You can watch the video here:</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">In other parts of the eight-minute clip, Trump says that he believes women are “stronger” and “more aggressive” than men because in his experience, they have an “extraordinary” sex drive.</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p">“I believe that women are actually stronger than men, and I actually say that they’re not so much stronger, but I think they’re aggressive than men…I think that women’s sex drives are as good or greater than men’s sex drive. And I mean, I’ve been witness to it, and perhaps you have too if you’re lucky,” Trump said to Sebastian, who laughs. “But the sex drive of women is extraordinary. They like to portray themselves as the weaker sex, but the weaker sex does not exist, believe me. They’re certainly the more aggressive sex.”</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">That women aren’t the “weaker” sex because they have sex appeal is another line from Trump’s 1997 book.</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p">“The person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part,” Trump wrote.</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Host Sebastian also asks Trump about an anecdote from the book where Trump describes a time when a “lady of great social pedigree and wealth” aggressively pursued him and groped him at a party, <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/10/20/the-time-donald-trump-got-groped/?utm_term=.04bd3de30764" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/10/20/the-time-donald-trump-got-groped/?utm_term=.04bd3de30764">saying, according to his account,</a> “I have to have you, and I have to have you now.”</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--mixtapeEmbed">In the BBC interview, Trump said this was one of many times that he’s been aggressively pursued by women.</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p">“I’ve had a lot of circumstances where a woman’s sexual drive has turned out to be just extraordinary and not necessarily anticipated by me.”</p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Trump’s treatment of and attitude toward women have come under greater scrutiny over the course of his presidential campaign, particularly since news broke in early October that he was caught on tape <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html" target="_blank" data-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html">casually bragging</a> about sexual assault. There are also <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023">many</a> documented examples of him casually making <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://thinkprogress.org/watch-donald-trump-casually-drop-the-c-word-in-public-83941827ea9a" target="_blank" data-href="https://thinkprogress.org/watch-donald-trump-casually-drop-the-c-word-in-public-83941827ea9a">sexist comments.</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--last">To date, <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href="https://thinkprogress.org/all-the-assault-and-harassment-allegations-against-donald-trump-93f05679365" target="_blank" data-href="https://thinkprogress.org/all-the-assault-and-harassment-allegations-against-donald-trump-93f05679365">12 different women</a> have publicly come forward to say that Trump sexually assaulted and harassed them.</p> <p> </p> <p>
