Amid Epstein Fallout, Video of Trump Judging Teens in Model Contest Resurfaces
Amid Epstein Fallout, Video of Trump Judging Teens in Model Contest Resurfaces
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Amid Epstein Fallout, Video of Trump Judging Teen Girls in Modeling Competition Resurfaces
Amid ongoing scrutiny of President Donald Trump and his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking case, newly unearthed video shows Trump taking part as a judge in a beauty pageant that featured models as young as 14 years old.
The video in question shows Trump as one of 10 judges in Elite Model Agency’s 1991 “Look of the Year” competition. Within the video, young women and girls walk in front of Trump and others in order to be judged on both their looks and “personality,” according to the narrator.
1991 would have made Donny about 45 years old.
He was a 45yo man oogling 14year olds.
I never understood why the man’s age is important? Are we expected to be more forgiving of older pedos than younger ones? If he’s 18, 25, 35, non of those make it right. 14y is 14y end of story.
ETA: not sure where the downvotes are coming from, it looks like people think the age gap is more important than the fact that the girl is a minor. Or people think that I’m condoning this behaviour? Either way, I’m saying Pedo is pedo, doesn’t matter if the man is 18 or 88. And I’m saying man not boy. Different jurisdictions have different rules on how minors can interact with each other, this is not about that.
Also, I think is it’s telling for our patriarchy that the male age is seen as a factor. I would have hoped that by now we would see it more (or at least also) from the victim’s perspective.
One of my first truly disappointing days on Lemmy. I’ll just stay here to get the orange out, and then I’m out too.
It matters because, generally and from my own experience, you should find someone that much younger than you will stop looking like an attractive mate and will start looking too young to you.
I'm 41 and people 25 and under all look "young" to me now. To the point where they don't cross my radar as potential mates.
Severity? Like, it’s worse the older you are.
If you’re 19, I’d be like “hey lil bro, you’re not in hs anymore. Chill.”
You’re 45? Public shaming and you should be kept as far away from children as possible, not given the keys to the fucking country.
I mean, would be different if he was like 15. Can't go wrong with highlighting the huge gulf in age.
Weird take
There's the law, and then there's what's age appropriate.
The older you get, the less you should have in common with a younger romantic partner. This is based on my own experiences and those of others.
There really is an age gap mentally. It hits you hard when you realize it.
Then you realize every older guy/gal going for someone much, much, younger, knows this. And that is going to creep you out one day to the max.
At least, it should...
it's a massive age difference, and the people he's oogling were barely into their teens. what could a 45 year old possibly see in a 14 year old?
A 14 year old flirting with a 14 year old is fine. A 16 and 14 year old is probably fine. 18 and 14 is probably not, but maybe if they're both in school together it's okay. There was a sophomore-senior couple in my high school and they were about the same maturity. Beyond that it's no good.
You're looking at this as a numbers game, approaching the question with pure logic. A 45yo has the social tools to manipulate that a 18yo does not. That's the problem. We could also talk about power imbalances, be those money, status or profession.
Do not look up "age on consent" laws for the US or Europe. You'll lose your shit. Only 10 US states peg 18 as that age, and Turkey is the only state in Europe at 18.
No but it does make it worse.