Billy Bush: Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That
- 6 years ago
Billy Bush: Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That
It is especially painful for the women who have come forward, at the risk of forever
being linked to one event, this man, this president of the United States.
With Mr. Trump’s outsized viewership back in 2005, everybody from Billy Bush on up to the top brass
on the 52nd floor had to stroke the ego of the big cash cow along the way to higher earnings.
To these women: I will never know the fear you felt or the frustration of being summarily dismissed and called a liar,
but I do know a lot about the anguish of being inexorably linked to Donald Trump.
Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time,
and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act.
“I didn’t know how to handle it.” Her story makes the whole “better use some Tic Tacs” and “just start kissing them” routine real.
President Trump is currently indulging in some revisionist history, reportedly telling allies,
including at least one United States senator, that the voice on the tape is not his.
The man who once told me — ironically, in another off-camera conversation — after
I called him out for inflating his ratings: “People will just believe you.
It is especially painful for the women who have come forward, at the risk of forever
being linked to one event, this man, this president of the United States.
With Mr. Trump’s outsized viewership back in 2005, everybody from Billy Bush on up to the top brass
on the 52nd floor had to stroke the ego of the big cash cow along the way to higher earnings.
To these women: I will never know the fear you felt or the frustration of being summarily dismissed and called a liar,
but I do know a lot about the anguish of being inexorably linked to Donald Trump.
Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time,
and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act.
“I didn’t know how to handle it.” Her story makes the whole “better use some Tic Tacs” and “just start kissing them” routine real.
President Trump is currently indulging in some revisionist history, reportedly telling allies,
including at least one United States senator, that the voice on the tape is not his.
The man who once told me — ironically, in another off-camera conversation — after
I called him out for inflating his ratings: “People will just believe you.