2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WHAT SEX TAPE??????? [View all]Look, if I have a contract with you in which you are going to work for my entertainment franchise, then it's perfectly fine for me to say, "you will consent to whatever televised productions or promotions we make, you'll keep smiling, and you won't badmouth us in the future."
Not everything in a contract needs to be mutual or reciprocal.
Yes, there he is doing the gym thing and making comments about her weight, in the course of promoting the pageant, himself, whatever - and there she is smiling and working out and laughing along.
Someone could look at that and say, "Oh, well, it wasn't really bothering her" not realizing it was her JOB to look happy, regardless of how she felt - and in much the same way that women every day opt to "laugh along" and "be one of the guys" instead of "making a big deal about it".
Come on. You think Ivana and Marla are so quiet because they are introverts who shy from media attention?
No, it's because a dick like Trump has contracts drafted by lawyers who know how much of a dick he is, and make sure that there are clauses dealing with subsequent public statements.
Honestly, imagine you write contracts for Trump, to be signed by people who are going to have any kind of dealings with him. What would you put in there? Hell, I'd want it signed in the contractor's blood.
This is a guy who denied saying he was smart for not paying taxes, within minutes of actually saying just that.
He has no problem saying "I never said that" to things he has actually said.
But on this one - uniquely - it was "where did you get that?" He wanted to know if she was badmouthing him.
As a practical matter, even if he had a non-disparagement clause, it would be insane to try to enforce it since there's no time for that, and it would look insanely bad.
But that reaction, IMHO, was uniquely different from his usual "wrong", "not true", "I never said that". This was the reaction of the little boy who has been ratted out to the teacher and wants to know who did it.