A 2006 audio clip of Donald Trump quipping about his dating “age limit” has resurfaced as the controversy around the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein reaches new heights.
During the Howard Stern interview, the future president was asked about sleeping with younger women ― and just how low he might go.
When Stern asked Trump if he “could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Trump said he’d “have no problem.”
Things got a little weird after co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump if he had “an age limit.”
Trump fumbled a bit at the response.
“If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age li—” Trump said, while Quivers asked him “the upper bracket” of his limit.
Trump managed to bring in another sex scandal, referring to former Rep. Mark Foley, a Florida Republican who was forced to step down in 2006 after multiple incidents of sending lurid instant messages to young male congressional pages.
“I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds,” he said.
Trump made the crude comments after being egged on by Stern and Quivers, and it came back to bite him on X, as some people took Trump’s reference to Foley as him saying he wouldn’t go younger than 12 ― and not as a criticism of Foley’s actions.
Still, making creepy comments about young women isn’t exactly out of left field for Trump, who famously told Stern all sorts of cringy things related to young women, including his daughter, Ivanka Trump.
Back in 2004, Trump told Stern it was OK to refer to Ivanka as “a piece of ass” while talking with him, and admitted to promising her in 1999, when she was 17, that he’d never date a girl younger than her.
The 19-year-old Stern clip resurfaced days after the heads of the Department of Justice and FBI declared there was no client list nor evidence that Epstein, Trump’s old friend, was murdered in jail.
Since both departments had previously hyped the release of the so-called Epstein files, many MAGA followers felt duped, especially after Trump insulted the people for wanting to see the files.
But that has only caused more stories linking Trump with Epstein, such as a Wall Street Journal report published last week that said Trump wrote a bawdy birthday message to Epstein in 2003, while The New York Times reported on Saturday that Trump held a calendar girls competition at Mar-a-Lago in 1993 — with Epstein as the only guest.