Donald Trump calls Playboy/Penthouse model Victoria Zdrok 'third-rate hooker;' denies ever dating

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For the second time in a less than a week, a phone call with a reporter from more than a decade ago is making waves on the Donald Trump campaign trail.

On Monday, The Daily Beast released an audio recording of a friendly, 12-year-old phone call between Trump and journalist Chaunce Hayden, in which the presumptive Republican nominee for president states that a woman who claims to have dated him looks like "a f***ing third-rate hooker."

The woman in question is former Playboy Playmate and 2004 Penthouse Pet of the Year Victoria Zdrok. According to Hayden, rumors at the time suggested Zdrok and Trump had gone on four dates before breaking things off.

"I don't even know who the hell she is," Trump responds. "I never took her out. I don't know who she is. And, by the way, based on her picture, I would never take her. She looks like a f***ing third-rate hooker."

Then later ...

Trump: "I mean, give me a break. I never took this girl out."

Hayden: "She claims she went on four dates."

Trump: "I never took her out. She's full of sh*t. (briefly inaudible) Look, I have good taste in women. Take a look at her picture. First of all she's not a Playboy-, she's like a Playboy-something girl."

Trump also took a brief moment in the conversation to plug his "huge" ratings for "The Apprentice: "It's the biggest show [NBC has] had since 'Friends.'"

The recording was released just days after the New York Times released a scathing report on Trumps' treatment of women behind closed doors.

"Donald Trump and women: The words evoke a familiar cascade of casual insults, hurled from the safe distance of a Twitter account, a radio show or a campaign podium. This is the public treatment of some women by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president: degrading, impersonal, performed. 'That must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,' he told a female contestant on 'The Celebrity Apprentice.' Rosie O'Donnell, he said, had a 'fat, ugly face.' A lawyer who needed to pump milk for a newborn? 'Disgusting,' he said."

On Friday, a 1991 phone recording also surfaced in which Trump allegedly pretends to be his own press secretary on a phone call with a reporter. According to CNN, Trump has admitted to posing as a publicist in the past, but told NBC "It was not me on the phone ... and it doesn't sound like me on the phone."

Whether these newly-surfaced phone calls do anything to derail Trump's presidential aspirations is unlikely. An unopposed Trump continues to rack up delegates – most recently Tuesday in the Oregon GOP primary – on his way to the Republican nomination for president at the Republican National Convention, held July 18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio.