Gen Z listens to Trump Access Hollywood for the first time on TikTok

“And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

In 2005, Donald Trump was caught on microphone bragging about groping women while talking to then-co-host Billy Bush. Access to Hollywood. In October 2016, a recording of the conversation was published by a newspaper. Washington Postcausing a storm of condemnation and disgust. Bush, who by that time was one of the organizers Today show, and was fired as a result. In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected president anyway.

IN 2024, when Trump runs for president for the third time, some voters, the youngest of whom were only 10 years old when the tape first broke, stumble upon Access to Hollywood tape for the first time.

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Soleil Golden, a 22-year-old clinical research assistant and writer, @toxictosyndrome on TikTok and has 591.5 thousand subscribers, posted a video about her and fellow creator @awalmartparkinglot reaction to the tape. “I attacked her like a bitch,” Trump can be heard saying as the two TikTokers shake their heads, close their eyes and press their fingers to their temples as if they have a migraine. “You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful ones… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just a kiss. I’m not even waiting.”

Golden, who was 14 when the tape was first released, says she decided to make the video because she feels there are people who haven’t heard the full extent of the sound “as depraved as it is.” (Although Trump initially apologized for tape, later he asked a question was he even on tape saying, “We don’t think that was my voice.”)

“It’s very disturbing that so many people like to portray Trump as a family man,” Golden says. Teen mod. “Both he and Vance have tried to create an image of the importance of the American family, and that is why they are trying to get rid of many reproductive health services and facilities if, God forbid, they win the election. »