Did Trump later apologize or clarify his 2006 remarks about Ivanka, and when did that happen?

1. The apology most frequently cited was for the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape, not the 2006 Stern remarks

When the 2005 Access Hollywood video surfaced in October 2016, Donald Trump released a video in which he said “I’ve said and done things I regret… I said it, it was wrong, and I apologise,” language widely reported as an apology for the Access tape ^[1]. Coverage and contemporaneous accounts tie that apology to the Access tape and to intense pressure in 2016 — not explicitly to the series of Howard Stern-era comments from 2004–2006 about Ivanka that later drew scrutiny ^{[1] [3]}.

2. Ivanka urged a fuller apology and was reportedly upset when he resisted

Reporting in 2016 described Ivanka Trump pleading with her father to issue a “vigorous, sincere apology” for the Access tape and leaving “visibly upset” when he would not agree to the fuller form of apology she sought; the New York Times coverage and summaries note she wanted stronger contrition beyond the statement he ultimately released ^{[2] [1]}. That episode illustrates the difference between a public, general apology and the deeper, personal apology some sources say Ivanka wanted ^{[2] [1]}.

3. The Howard Stern-era comments about Ivanka are repeatedly documented, but distinct

Multiple outlets and archival clips catalog Trump’s longstanding pattern of lewd or sexualized remarks about Ivanka — e.g., calling her “a piece of ass,” calling her “voluptuous,” and saying “if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her” during appearances in the mid‑2000s — and compile criticism of that behavior ^{[6] [3] [4] [7]}. Those reports treat those comments as part of a broader pattern, but they do not identify a discrete later apology directed solely at the 2004–2006 Howard Stern/View-era comments ^{[3] [4]}.

4. Recent resurfacings of clips renewed scrutiny but did not produce a newly documented apology

When old Stern clips resurfaced in 2025 and commentators circulated a 2006 clip in which Trump appears to mouth “that’s true” after being called a “sexual predator,” outlets reported public condemnation and context from archives ^{[8] [9]}. Those items document the outrage and the archival source material; they do not report a contemporaneous or subsequent apology from Trump that specifically addresses that 2006 Stern exchange ^{[8] [9]}.

5. Differentiating apologies, clarifications and political damage control

The available sources show Trump’s 2016 video apology was framed as a response to the Access Hollywood tape and was widely reported as such; other remarks about Ivanka over the years have been criticized and recirculated, but reporting does not show a formally dated clarification or standalone apology tied only to the 2004–2006 comments ^{[1] [3] [4]}. Journalistic accounts often present the Stern/View-era remarks as part of a pattern rather than as a discrete scandal that produced a single, dated apology ^{[4] [7]}.

6. What reporting does and does not say — limitations and competing emphases

Reporting documents that Trump apologized publicly for the Access tape in 2016 and that Ivanka pushed for a stronger apology ^{[1] [2]}. Sources catalogue numerous inappropriate comments about Ivanka across interviews in 2004–2006 and beyond ^{[3] [6] [4]}. However, available sources do not mention a clear, later apology or clarification that specifically addresses the 2006 Howard Stern-era comments about Ivanka as a separate, standalone act of contrition ^{[8] [3]}. If you are asking whether Trump “later apologized or clarified” those 2006 remarks in a distinct, documented statement, the current reporting does not record such an event ^{[8] [1]}.

If you’d like, I can pull direct excerpts from the 2006 interviews (transcripts and video timestamps) referenced in the archival pieces, or assemble a timeline contrasting the Access Hollywood apology with the chronology of Stern/View-era comments to make the distinction clearer.