Are there audio or video recordings of Trump making the dressing-room remark and where can they be accessed?
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Executive summary
There are multiple audio recordings in which Donald Trump discusses entering pageant dressing rooms and inspecting contestants, most notably a 2005 Howard Stern interview audio released by CNN and contemporaneous audio and video tapes that surfaced during the 2016 campaign; those recordings and contemporaneous transcripts have been reported and published by major outlets [1] [2] [3] [4]. Trump’s campaign denied some of the specific allegations even as he publicly acknowledged other crude remarks captured on tape [1] [5].
1. The Howard Stern audio: what exists and how it became public
A 2005 Howard Stern interview in which Trump recounts going backstage and seeing contestants “getting dressed” was recorded and later released by CNN in 2016; CNN’s release of that audio is the principal source reporters cite when describing Trump’s on-air dressing-room comments [1] [2]. Multiple news organizations summarized and replayed portions of those Stern recordings when the material resurfaced in print and on broadcast during the 2016 campaign and again in later reporting about Trump’s pageant-era behavior [6] [7].
2. Other related audio/video from pageant years and the Access Hollywood tape
Separate from the Stern dressing-room audio, there is the famous 2005 Access Hollywood video — recorded by a live microphone and widely rebroadcast — in which Trump makes sexually explicit “locker room” remarks to Billy Bush; that access-tape is a distinct recording but was released during the same 2016 media moment and is archived in major outlets’ coverage and transcripts [3] [5] [4]. Rolling Stone and other outlets have also pointed to additional audio clips from Trump’s pageant-ownership years (including material obtained by outlets such as TMZ) that reporters used to corroborate contestants’ accounts of backstage intrusions [7].
3. Corroboration, denials, and how outlets presented the material
Several former contestants and pageant staff told reporters they remembered Trump appearing backstage or entering dressing rooms, and those firsthand recollections were published alongside the audio clips to provide context and corroboration [7] [2]. Trump’s campaign at times denied specific incidents even while Trump himself acknowledged and apologized for other recorded crude language — an inconsistency that news outlets noted when juxtaposing denials with the audio evidence [1] [5].
4. Where the recordings have been accessed publicly in reporting
Major news organizations — CNN, PBS, BBC and others — published the audio excerpts, video clips, and full transcripts during the 2016 release and in subsequent retrospectives, and those items were embedded in their stories for public viewing and listening [1] [3] [4]. International and regional outlets also republished or linked to the clips when the material resurfaced in later election cycles, for example in reporting that highlighted the Stern dressing-room admissions [6] [7].
5. Gaps, limits and what cannot be concluded from the sources provided
The assembled sources establish that audio recordings exist and were publicly released by mainstream outlets (CNN, PBS, BBC, Rolling Stone, etc.), and that contestants’ recollections accompanied those releases [1] [3] [7], but the reporting here does not provide a single central archive URL or an exhaustive catalogue of every clip and file; therefore, while it is clear the recordings were made public via news outlets, this set of sources does not supply a definitive repository link for every tape mentioned [1] [3] [7].
6. Bottom line — direct answer
Yes: audio recordings of Donald Trump describing entering pageant dressing rooms exist (notably the 2005 Howard Stern audio released by CNN) and have been published and replayed by major media [1] [2], and the contemporaneous Access Hollywood video — a separate but related tape of crude sexual comments — is likewise publicly available in news archives and transcripts [3] [5] [4]. The best route to listen or view them, according to the reporting, is through the news organizations that released the material (for example CNN’s 2016 release and subsequent reporting by PBS and the BBC), though the specific hosting links are not catalogued in these sources [1] [3] [4].