Laurie Roberts

opinion columnist

Finally, we know what Donald Trump thinks of us, ladies.

As if we didn’t know when he told America that Carly Fiorina is just too ugly to be president. (“Look at that face!" he told Rolling Stone, when a shot of Fiorina flashed on a nearby TV. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!")

Or when word leaked recently that he once forced Miss Universe to exercise in front of a group of reporters and referred to her as “Miss Piggy” because she’d gained a few pounds.

Or when he noted that Fox star Megyn Kelly must have been having her menstrual period because she asked hard hitting questions. Who knew that journalists could only ask tough questions one week out of every month?

Now comes a video from 2005, with Trump talking in vulgar, insulting terms about women -- as if we are all just one big walking body part. Or two, actually.

The video, disclosed by the Washington Post, catches Trump talking on a hot mic with Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood. At one point, the two frat boys catch sight of Arianne Zucker, an actress standing outside the bus in which they were talking as she waited to escort them onto the set of Days of Our Lives.

“Your girl’s hot as s--t, in the purple,” Bush says to Trump.

“Whoa!” Trump replies. “Whoa!”

“I’ve gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her,” Trump says. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful -- I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”

“And when you’re a star they let you do it,” Trump adds. “You can do anything.”

“Whatever you want,” says someone, presumably Bush’s.

“Grab them by the p---y,” Trump says. “You can do anything.”

I’d say I’m shocked, that a man who aspires to be the leader of the free world would talk this way about women, much less think this way about women.

But I’m not shocked. And I’d guess you’re not either.

Donald Trump's ego spreads from sea to shining sea. He goes hard and nasty after anyone who challenges him and he seems to take special pride in going after women. He insults us. He belittles us. He absolutely delights in stereotyping and degrading us.

And he's been doing it for decades.

In 1991, he told Esquire: "You know, it doesn't really matter what (reporters) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass."

In his 2004 book, "How To Get Rich," he wrote: "It's certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on 'The Apprentice' were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal."

In 2012, he tweeted: ".@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision."

In April 2015, he tweeted: "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?"

I could go on. And on. And, well, on with his sexist, obnoxious comments.

Yet he now is the Republican nominee for president, with a sizable amount of support from …

…wait for it…

Women.

This is a joke, right?

To quote a not-so-great man: "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!"