The Weekly Standard editor does not support Donald Trump. | Getty Bill Kristol: Trump is a 'dirty old man'

Donald Trump is a “dirty old man,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Friday.

Kristol blasted Trump during a segment on CNN following a bombshell report disclosing a private conversation about women between Trump and Billy Bush of “Access Hollywood,” as captured in a leaked video of the 2005 incident obtained by The Washington Post.


CNN broadcast a clip of Trump’s sexually aggressive rhetoric — which includes Trump admitting a failed effort to seduce a married woman (“I did try and fuck her”), describing a woman with “big phony tits” and even grabbing women “by the pussy“ because “when you’re a star...you can do anything.” (Only the "f" word was bleeped out.)

“It’s kind of stunning to hear the Republican nominee, father of five, married to Melania Trump, a person who won handily the evangelical vote, talk this crudely about women,” anchor Jake Tapper said. “And again, I don’t want to pretend that I am a choir boy, but no, I don’t talk that way about women, and I don’t think I ever even thought crazy things like that when I was single.”

USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers suggested that unlike past reports about Trump’s actions or rhetoric, this story is more powerful because he was married at the time, and it includes video of what transpired.

“I think you could easily kind of sweep them under the rug and he could, well, say that was my past, that was my youth and I was a playboy,” she said, referring to past reports. “But at this point he’s not. At this point, this is later in his life, and I think that that makes it, you know, even worse.”

“He’s a dirty old man,” added Kristol, who does not support the GOP nominee. “Really.”

Tapper observed that the United States is going through an era in which “a certain generation of men” are shaming and judging women in tough, harsh ways, “and this is just the latest example.”

“But it’s not acceptable to talk about women like that,” he added.