Ivanka Trump pleaded with her father to issue a vigorous, sincere apology for his notoriously vulgar comments about women on a leaked 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape—and left the room visibly upset when Donald Trump would not take her advice, according to a Tuesday report in the New York Times.
Donald Trump at first only agreed to “say he was sorry if anyone was offended,” which bothered his daughter, per the New York Times:
Ivanka Trump made an emphatic case for a full-throated apology, according to several people who were present for the crisis discussion that unfolded in Mr. Trump’s 26th-floor office. Raised amid a swirl of tabloid headlines, she had spent her adult life branding herself as her father’s poised, family-focused daughter. She marketed her clothing line with slogans about female empowerment and was finishing a book on the topic. As she spoke, Mr. Trump remained unyielding. His daughter’s eyes welled with tears, her face reddened, and she hurried out in frustration.
In the tape, Trump bragged to former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush that he could do “anything” with women, including “grab” them by their genitals. Trump ultimately issued an apology for those comments, but dismissed the remarks as nothing more than “locker room banter.”
