Donald Trump has made several public statements about sex tapes. | AP Photo Donald Trump wasn’t always so disgusted by sex tapes

In an early morning tweet storm, Donald Trump lashed out at former Miss Universe Alicia Machado Friday, calling her “disgusting” for allegedly appearing in a sex tape.

Machado has starred in risqué reality TV programs and posed nude for the Mexican version of Playboy magazine, the Daily Beast and other outlets that investigated the claim found no evidence that she has starred in any pornographic films and that the clips posted online actually feature another woman.


But Trump’s views on sex tapes seem to be continually evolving, because in his long history in public life, he has taken a variety of stands on such tapes — and on how the women in them should be regarded.

One pattern does emerge: If the woman is a friend, he considers the tape a non-issue at worst. If it’s someone he’s feuding with, then he thinks she has some explaining to do.

(A Trump campaign spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.)

Here are 6 public statements Trump has made about sex tapes.

1. In a 2003 interview with Howard Stern, Trump praised Paris Hilton and said her “probably unfortunate” online sex tape likely helped her career.

TRUMP: “I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's 12.”

STERN: “She's hot.”

TRUMP: “Her parents are friends of mine and the first time I saw her she walked into a room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’”

STERN: “Did you want to bang her?”

TRUMP: “She's a very ... Well, at 12 I wasn't interested. I've never been into that. They've sort of always stuck around that 25 category.”

…

STERN: “Have you seen the video, the sex video?”

TRUMP: “I have seen it.”

STERN: “You did? What did you do? You went on the Internet?”

TRUMP: “No, it was just on the Internet.”

STERN: “How did you see that? What did you do?”

TRUMP: “Melania showed it to me.”

STERN: “What did you think of that? Did you see ...”

TRUMP: “I think it's probably unfortunate and perhaps it made ... What is that noise?”

STERN: “That's the tape.”

TRUMP: “All right. I think it's probably unfortunate and it made Paris hotter in terms of the world because the world is so screwed up. I mean, you think a thing like that is going to destroy, like Hugh Grant who I love. I think he's great. He's a member of my golf club. You would have think he would have been destroyed by what happened to him and he's the biggest star now than he ever was, so you never know what happens but I think it probably made Paris even better.

2. In 2004, according to an Associated Press article, Trump pitched Hilton to host the Miss USA Pageant and her sex tape didn’t “bother” him.

Trump told Us Weekly magazine he got the idea while Hilton's parents, Kathy and Rick, were visiting him at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. And he said Hilton's infamous Internet sex tape doesn't bother him. "I've known Paris since she was a little girl," Trump said. "She's a fine girl ... I think she will give the pageant its highest TV ratings."

3. In a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair, Trump said the sex tape made Hilton “hotter.”

“I hate what happened with that sex tape, but it only made her hotter,” Trump told Vanity Fair in October 2005.

4. In 2009, Trump called on Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean to release a sex tape she made at age 17.

Prejean, dueling with Trump over her dismissal as Miss USA, had criticized Trump in a book for allegedly sorting contestants in his pageants by how sexually attracted he was to them. She had also recently said she filmed an erotic video for her boyfriend when she was 17, calling it her “biggest mistake.”

In response, Trump told the television show Extra: “She's trying to act like she's a nun... so maybe she should release the sex tape and people would see whether or not she is a nun."

5. Days later, Trump again called on Prejean to release the underage sex tape on CNN.

“As far as the sex tape, I guess Carrie was the one that told people about the sex tape. She openly admits there is a sex tape. Maybe she should reveal the sex tape to see whether or not it’s horrendous or whatever.” [Showbiz Tonight, 11/12/09]

6. Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted that Machado is “disgusting” and encouraged the public to “check out [her] sex tape and past.”

“Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?”