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What specific claims did Donald Trump make on Howard Stern shows?
Executive summary
Howard Stern interviewed Donald Trump many times over more than two decades — roughly 15 hours of air time across numerous appearances [1]. Those interviews included crude, sexualized remarks (e.g., evaluating women, joking about sleeping with Princess Diana, discussing walking in on undressed pageant contestants, and permission to call Ivanka a derogatory term) that Stern and several outlets later described and summarized [2] [3]. Available sources do not list a comprehensive transcript of every specific claim Trump made across all Stern appearances [1].
1. Long-running, candid conversations — a large body of material
Trump’s interviews with Stern span decades and are unusually extensive: Roll Call quantified Trump’s Stern appearances at about 15 hours and 104,357 words spoken by Trump — more time with Stern than with any other public interviewer documented in that piece [1]. That scale means specific claims are many and varied across interviews rather than a single, tidy list [1].
2. Repeated sexualized comments and admissions on-air
Reporting and summaries emphasize that Trump made repeated sexual comments and admissions on Stern’s show. The AP notes Trump discussed “sexual exploits,” evaluated women “on a scale of 1 to 10,” boasted about walking in on undressed contestants at his beauty pageants, claimed he “could have had sex with Diana, princess of Wales,” and admitted to cheating on ex-wife Ivana Trump [2]. Howard Stern himself has acknowledged he pushed those lines because they entertained the audience [2] [3].
3. Jokes and exchanges that later drew scrutiny — an example that circulated online
One example that re-emerged in reporting: a 2006 Stern interview clip where, amid joking and laughter, Trump appears to mouth “That’s true” after someone in the studio calls him a “sexual predator.” Snopes corroborated that a video authentically shows Trump reacting that way during a Feb. 27, 2006 appearance with Ivanka and Donald Jr., though the full episode was not located in their review [4]. Snopes’ reporting traces how the clip was shared and disputed the implication that the family’s reactions were plainly sinister, noting the interview was jocular and promotional in tone [4].
4. Stern’s editorial stance on replaying those interviews
Howard Stern has stated he will not dig into his archives to replay past Trump interviews because he sees doing so now as a betrayal of guests, noting the original context was entertainment and broadcast, not private [2]. Stern also framed Trump as “an open book” on the show before his presidential run, but said Trump became a different, more guarded—and then politicized—guest when the campaign began [3] [5].
5. Public collections and third-party archives exist but are incomplete
There are fan-compiled archives and sites cataloguing Trump-on-Stern appearances (for example, trumponstern.com), which collect many clips and descriptions of topics (sex, relationships, AIDS, beauty, treatment of women), but these are not exhaustive academic transcripts and their sourcing varies [6]. Some recordings and exact phrasings remain difficult to locate in full, according to reporting [4].
6. Competing interpretations: entertainment vs. evidentiary context
Stern framed the encounters as entertainment-driven and has resisted re-airing them for that reason [2]. Critics and some journalists point to the remarks as part of a pattern relevant to public character and conduct; defenders sometimes emphasize the jocular, promotional context and the decades-long friendship and rapport between host and guest [3] [2]. Snopes’ analysis of the “sexual predator” clip underscores how context and editing can change impressions of a moment [4].
7. What available sources do not provide
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive, item-by-item catalog of “every specific claim” Trump ever made on Stern; instead, they offer representative examples and quantification of the total airtime [1]. Full transcripts or archived, complete episodes for every appearance are not presented in the provided reporting [4] [6].
Conclusion: The documented record in major reporting shows numerous explicit, sexualized comments and admissions by Trump on The Howard Stern Show across many appearances [2] [3], and a widely circulated 2006 clip has been authenticated but contextualized as jocular by fact-checkers [4]. For a line‑by‑line inventory, one must consult archived recordings and compiled collections — noting those sources vary in completeness and context [6] [1].