What recordings and transcripts exist of Donald Trump’s comments about Ivanka across media appearances?
Executive summary
A searchable archive of Donald Trump’s on‑air conversations with shock‑jock Howard Stern — including hours of audio and accompanying transcripts spanning the 1990s through 2015 — contains repeated, explicit discussions in which Trump comments about his daughter Ivanka’s appearance and desirability [1][2]. Separate, widely circulated recordings such as the 2005 Access Hollywood "hot mic" tape are part of the public record about Trump’s broader pattern of lewd remarks, and news organizations and historians point to both documented broadcasts and later, book‑based allegations that are not fully corroborated on tape [3][2][4].
1. Howard Stern archive: documented audio and transcripts spanning decades
News outlets obtained and published a comprehensive online archive of roughly 15 hours of Trump’s interviews with Howard Stern, and Newsweek reported it includes full audio and transcripts of all Stern conversations from 1993 through August 25, 2015; those recordings contain multiple exchanges where Trump evaluates Ivanka’s body and discusses her in sexualized terms [1]. CNN’s review of newly uncovered Stern audio likewise documents a 17‑year run of crude conversations with Stern in which Trump discussed Ivanka’s physique among other topics, indicating that both audio and transcribed content exist and have been analyzed by mainstream outlets [2].
2. The Access Hollywood 2005 tape and media context
Media coverage of Trump’s comments about women frequently references the 2005 Access Hollywood hot‑mic recording, which became central to reporting on his pattern of lewd remarks; outlets such as The Independent cite that tape in context when summarizing Trump’s history of inappropriate comments, including those about his daughter [3]. While the Access Hollywood tape itself is focused on an off‑camera brag about groping women and is not primarily an Ivanka‑focused recording, it is treated in the press as background to broader concerns about his public comments toward women, and it catalyzed renewed scrutiny of other archived interviews where Ivanka is discussed [3][2].
3. Other broadcast mentions and press compilations
Beyond Stern and Access Hollywood, multiple news outlets have compiled documented broadcast instances in which Trump commented on Ivanka: CNN’s KFile review and pieces in The Independent and IMDb cite specific broadcast moments — for example, Stern’s prompting in 2004–2006 about Ivanka’s “voluptuous” appearance and Trump’s affirmative responses — and these items have been preserved in audio archives and reporting [2][5][3]. These compilations rely on primary audio from radio and television appearances and on media transcripts generated contemporaneously or by later archival projects [2][1].
4. Allegations from memoirs and books that lack definitive taped proof
Several high‑profile claims about Trump making lewd comments about Ivanka in the White House are reported in books and by former aides — notably Miles Taylor’s assertions that John Kelly rebuked Trump for sexual remarks about his daughter — but major outlets caution that such accounts are not uniformly corroborated by contemporaneous audio or public transcripts [4][6]. The Guardian explicitly notes that some of these book‑sourced allegations lack incontrovertible proof in the form of recordings, and reporting distinguishes between documented broadcast transcripts and secondhand recollections from memoirs [6].
5. What is documented versus what remains contested
In sum, the evidentiary core consists of Howard Stern recordings and transcripts (widely archived and reported) and the Access Hollywood tape (central to reporting on Trump’s lewd public comments), both of which contain on‑the‑record material about women and, in Stern’s case, multiple explicit remarks about Ivanka [1][2][3]. Other allegations — especially claims about private White House conversations described in books or by former officials — are reported by credible outlets but do not always point to publicly available audio or full transcripts, leaving a gap between documented broadcast evidence and later memoir‑style allegations [4][6]. Reporting distinguishes these categories; readers should treat archived Stern audio and the Access Hollywood tape as documented sources and memoir‑based claims as corroborated only to the extent the authors or outlets provide verifiable recordings or contemporaneous notes [1][3][4].