In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on "Days of Our Lives" with actress Arianne Zucker. He is accompanied to the set by "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. The Post has edited this video for length. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on "Days of Our Lives" with actress Arianne Zucker. He is accompanied to the set by "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. The Post has edited this video for length. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

Republicans are shocked — shocked! — about Donald Trump’s caught-on-tape remarks boasting in vulgar terms about sexual assaults on women.

GOP Sens. John McCain, John Thune, Kelly Ayotte, Mike Lee, Mark Kirk and Mike Crapo, two Republican governors and a dozen or more GOP members of the House either said they won’t support Trump or called on Trump to quit, while many others, including Trump running mate Mike Pence, expressed their disgust.

What was on the 2005 video tape, first reported by The Post’s indefatigable David A. Fahrenthold, was beyond what we’ve known before of Trump — that he grabs the genitals of women without their consent and tried mightily to seduce a married woman. But it’s worse only by degrees. If this is the straw that broke the camel’s back, this dromedary was already overburdened and suffering from arthritis, spinal stenosis and ruptured disks.

Republicans may be dismayed by the super-predator they saw and heard in the video (just as they purported to be stunned by Trump’s racist attack on Judge Gonzalo Curiel despite Trump’s long history of racism), but they have no business being surprised. What’s on that tape is entirely consistent with what we already knew.

Even before this tape emerged, we knew that his wife Ivana accused him at the time of their divorce of raping her (Trump’s lawyer asserted that there is no such thing as spousal rape). We’ve known for months that makeup artist Jill Harth filed a 1997 complaint accusing Trump of attempted rape and of groping her in his daughter Ivanka’s bedroom. We’ve seen complaint after complaint about his lewd behavior on set at “The Apprentice” and at his Miss Universe pageants.

Donald Trump has a history of controversial comments about women that began long before the 2016 election. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

But while people can question the he-said, she-said allegations against Trump, it’s harder to dispute the meaning of his own words.

Here, for the benefit of those Republicans feigning surprise about Trump’s video, is a partial catalogue of reported remarks Trump has made about women — remarks which, by embracing Trump as the GOP presidential nominee, office holders in the party have already condoned:

“You know, it doesn’t really matter what they [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”

“I think that putting a wife to work [in the workplace] is a very dangerous thing. . . . I don’t want to sound too much like a chauvinist, but when I come home and dinner’s not ready, I go through the roof, okay?”

“Fox viewers give low marks to bimbo Megyn Kelly.”

“You could see there was blood coming out of her [Megyn Kelly’s] eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

“My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body.”

1 of 28 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × These Republicans cut ties with Trump after lewd remarks View Photos Following a Friday report by The Washington Post on a 2005 video of the GOP presidential nominee, various Republicans have said they no longer plan to vote for him and some call for him to drop out. Caption Following a Friday report by The Washington Post on a 2005 video of the GOP presidential nominee, various Republicans have said they no longer plan to vote for him and some call for him to drop out. Sen. John McCain Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined the cavalcade of Republicans withdrawing their support for Trump. “There are no excuses for Donald Trump’s offensive and demeaning comments in the just released video; no woman should ever be victimized by this kind of inappropriate behavior. He alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences,” McCain said in a statement. Susan Walsh/AP Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue.

“If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

Avoiding STDs “is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier. . . . This is better than Vietnam. It’s more fun.”

“All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”

“If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller (which it will be anyway!).”

“Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.”

“The boob job [on Carmen Electra] is terrible — they look like two light posts coming out of a body.”

“Does she [Kim Kardashian] have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely.”

“I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’ ”

“Someone asked me how Rosie O’Donnell would like these chairs. They’re not strong enough.”

“Can you imagine the parents of Kelli [Rosie O’Donnell’s partner] when she said, ‘Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie’?”

“ Rosie O’Donnell’s disgusting both inside and out. You take a look at her, she’s a slob.”

To a lawyer who needed to take a break during a deposition to pump breast milk for her infant daughter: “You’re disgusting.”

Written on a photo of New York Times columnist Gail Collins: “The Face of a Dog!”

To “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant Brande Roderick: “It must be a pretty picture. You dropping to your knees.”

On his penis size: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem.”

“I won’t do anything to take care of them [children]. I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids.”

“They’ll [women] walk up, and they’ll flip their top, and they’ll flip their panties.”

At a gala, referring to an attendee’s 14-year-old daughter: “ You shouldn’t mess with her . Fourteen will get you 20.”

To Cher: “ I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work.”

“I fully understand why [Arianna Huffington’s] former husband left her for a man — he made a good decision.”

“26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”

A retweeted message: “If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”

Of Carly Fiorina: “Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? . . . Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?”

Speculating about whether his then-infant daughter would have large breasts: “We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.”

For women who have abortions: “There has to be some form of punishment.”

Of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado: “Miss Piggy.” “Miss Housekeeping.” “Check out sex tape and past.”

On the allegations of sexual harassment by Roger Ailes that led to his ouster at Fox News: “All of a sudden they’re saying these horrible things about him. It’s very sad, because he’s a very good person.”

On former Playboy model Victoria Zdrok: “She looks like a f---ing third-rate hooker.”

“ Hillary, who is very shrill. Do you know the word ‘shrill’? . . . She can be kind of sha-riiiiill.”

“I haven’t quite recovered, it’s early in the morning, from her [Hillary Clinton’s] shouting. . . . I know a lot of people would say you can’t say that about a woman.”

“ Without the woman’s card , Hillary would not even be a viable person to even run for a city council position.”

“A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10.”

On the Miss America competition: “There’s only one talent you care about, and that’s the look talent.”

“She said he [Ted Cruz] is a p---y.”

“I would never buy Ivana any decent jewels or pictures. Why give her negotiable assets?”

“Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” Trump said Friday night in his non-apology apology for the video.

But that’s just the problem: If you don’t think the words in that video reflect exactly who Donald Trump is, you haven’t been paying attention.

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