Are we even surprised?

As producers and comedians and TV hosts and politicians are hauled over the coals for their misdeeds, losing their jobs and (in some cases) facing criminal prosecution, the president of the United States continues on his merry ways.

By now everyone has seen the infamous ‘Access Hollywood’ tape (worth another look HERE), but for every snippet of locker room talk you hear there’s plenty out there that flies under the radar.

Like when the Donald spoke to the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine, with this below via the Daily Beast:

In 2000, [journalist Michael] Corcoran was a guest on Trump’s 727 that weekend, and he wasn’t the only one. The article published in Maximum Golf magazine notes Trump had to wait at the marine terminal for now-disgraced pedophile [sic] billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his society gal-pal Ghislaine Maxwell—who have since been accused by dozens of women of running what amounted to a “sex slave”ring. Corcoran, who didn’t know the pair at the time, remembers Trump standing in the doorway of the plane yelling to them, “You broke the cardinal rule, Jeffrey! Never be late for someone else’s plane!”

…The remainder of the Maximum Golf article is an account by Corcoran of a couple of anodyne days with Trump in which the future president brags about the superiority of his properties, takes mulligans freely, waves off a photographer (“I feel fat”), asks his golf buddies whether they like the look of his then-girlfriend Melania (“Is that as good as it gets?”), and throws his club in the water over a missed putt.

…At dinner that evening, Corcoran describes Trump scanning the diners on the veranda and a “young socialite” catching his eye, inspiring the vulgar quote.

Corcoran used the quote as the kicker in his piece, but says it was changed by the editor in chief, who replaced the obscenity with the word “talent.”

…Joe Bargmann, Corcoran’s editor at Maximum Golf, confirmed Corcoran’s account.

“I was asked to change the last word of the story from ‘pussy.’ When I refused, my top editor changed the quote,” Bargmann told The Daily Beast.

The article ran in Maximum Golf’s August 2000 issue, minus Trump’s quote of course, and look where we are today.

Yes, we’re at a point in history where the president openly flouts how much he hates Muslims on his Twitter account by retweeting fake news.

Maximum Golf is no longer a publication, but before they went under they did publish this story on a 26-year-old Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss) glaring at the camera whilst in a bathtub filled with golf balls:

“A brain for fashion and a bod for sin”.

Inside that scoop:

She only finds one golfer sexy and it’s Donald. True love, right?

America.

[source:dailybeast]