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What were the exact quotes from Donald Trump's 2006 Howard Stern interview about Ivanka Trump?
Executive summary
Reporting and archived transcripts show Donald Trump made a series of sexually suggestive remarks about his daughter Ivanka across multiple Howard Stern interviews; the 2006 February 27 appearance includes him calling Ivanka “beautiful” and saying she had “always been quite voluptuous,” among other exchanges [1] [2] [3]. Some recent social posts have miscaptioned clips to claim he “laughingly agreed” to being called a “sexual predator”; fact-checking coverage frames that as a mischaracterization of what is audible in the 2006 interview [4].
1. What the 2006 Stern interview actually contains — direct excerpts and context
The February 27, 2006 interview transcript and published excerpts record Trump introducing Ivanka on the show (“I’m fine. This is my daughter Ivanka”) and participating in a conversational, joking back-and-forth with Stern about her looks and romantic life [1] [5]. Media outlets that reviewed the audio have quoted lines such as Trump saying “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka” and in adjacent interviews noting that she’s “actually always been very voluptuous,” remarks that were part of Stern’s leading, suggestive questioning [2] [3] [6].
2. The most-cited lines and how different outlets report them
Multiple outlets highlight a handful of repeat phrases across Stern appearances: “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka,” Trump’s approval of Stern calling Ivanka a “piece of ass” in an earlier interview, and the statement that she had been “quite voluptuous” [2] [7] [3]. CNN’s review of archived audio flagged the October 2006 exchange where Stern said Ivanka “looks more voluptuous than ever” and Trump engaged with that phrasing, and outlets including The Independent and People reiterate those lines [8] [6] [7].
3. The viral claim about “That’s true” and being called a “sexual predator” — fact-checks
A viral clip claimed Trump “says, ‘That’s true,’ when accused of being a sexual predator on Howard Stern, 2006.” Snopes examined the clip and reports that the social-post caption misrepresents the audio context; the fact-check highlights the 2006 interview’s joking tone and that the “That’s true” soundbite is used out of context in social posts [4]. Available sources do not provide a transcript in which Stern directly accuses Trump of being a “sexual predator” and Trump answers “That’s true” in that 2006 program; Snopes frames the viral framing as misleading [4].
4. How journalists and archives treat the full record
Long-form reviews that assembled many Stern-Trump appearances — for example, analyses cited by Roll Call and CNN — emphasize pattern and context rather than single-sentence soundbites: they collected full shows, transcribed exchanges, and noted Stern’s leading questions that elicited crude banter, including multiple appearances where Trump commented on Ivanka’s body [2] [8]. These reconstructions are the basis for repeated media quotations and for fact-checkers to judge claims about isolated clips [2] [8].
5. Competing interpretations and agendas in coverage
Some outlets present the Stern audio as emblematic of a pattern of predatory or inappropriate behavior; others focus on precise phrasing and the prompt-driven, joking radio environment to argue that viral snippets mislead by stripping context [8] [4]. Fact-checkers like Snopes explicitly counter social clips that assert Trump agreed to being called a “sexual predator” [4], while CNN and others emphasize the substantive content of Trump’s comments about Ivanka across multiple years [8].
6. Limitations and what the sources do not say
Available reporting and transcripts in the provided sources do not include a verbatim line in the Feb. 27, 2006 transcript where Stern calls Trump a “sexual predator” and Trump replies “That’s true”; Snopes concludes the viral framing is misleading and reconstructs the actual exchange as Stern-led joking and denials from Ivanka and Trump on specific questions [4] [1]. If you want the full verbatim language for every exchange, the most reliable step is to consult the complete February 27, 2006 transcript or original audio archives cited by Factba.se / Roll Call, which publish longer transcriptions [1] [5].
If you’d like, I can extract and compile verbatim lines from the February 27, 2006 transcript hosted at the Factba/ Roll Call pages so you have the exact quoted sentences in sequence [1] [5].