I am glad that he did give a second reason, however.

It's not funny or cute.

There are plenty of other ways to express how proud you are of your daughter(s).

Yes it's a creepy comment, but I think the deeper issue is that he seems utterly incapable of viewing women in anything but a sexually objectified way.

It's not like he mentioned her education, which would certainly be something to be proud of!



From Wikipedia as to Ivanka's education:

Education

Trump attended The Chapin School in New York until age 15,[1] then transferred to and graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.[2] She spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (her father's alma mater), graduating cum laude in 2004 with a B.S. in Economics.[1][3][4]

and as an added bonus she is easy on the eyes as well.

Daddy's beaten you to it.

Does B.S. stand for bullshit?

why he continues to insist on going "there" with respect to his own daughter, and it makes a ton of sense now, when looking at it in context of every other comment he's made about other women.

You can also sort of see it with his views on men too, where anything that doesn't comport with his narrow, adolescent view of masculinity must be mocked (e.g. real men don't get captured!).

He's a man-child. And his popularity is just embarrassing. I would call it scary if I didn't think he had a ceiling that was <50%.

someone like his as not only admirable, but as presidential. I had hoped we'd progressed beyond that. Though, I should have known better when nearly 50% of voters indicated that they wanted money grubbing bully Mitt Romney as our president. Now that i think of it, Trump is basically Romney with a New Yawk accent.

his daughter, but something much worse, and totally depraved. What kind of man even considers/assesses his daughter in such a manner? He's sick. Very, very sick.

"I did not … have … sexual relations with my daughter …"

I getcha. No worries! I just couldn't resist.

What he said was ridiculous, but this looks like maybe a 14 yr old girl kissing her dad. which we've all seen.

What we are discussing in the OP, it takes on another character altogether IMHO.

And sitting on their lap. How is that odd? Regardless of Trump's latest comment, this picture was obviously taken years ago when Ivanka was maybe a teen. She's always been tall, so she might not even be a teenager in this picture.
I'm not going to assign weirdness to a picture that could've been taken by a million other families simply because THIS one has trump in it & he's a douchebag!

His words are the problem and the fact that he has said it again is creepier than most things.

Like she's kinda like a Chicken at Kenny Rogers Roasters. Probably smacking his lips and rubbing his hands together, someone up thread was right very creepy.

That he dreams of her whatever.

He makes my skin crawl. Yuck!!!

If Joe Sixpack said that in public, he'd be facing jail time.

Me thinks the love affair of Rump by big, lame ass MSM...is coming to an end.

I get it: half of this country is below average and that's his target market, but even stupid people flinch at the thought of incest. How is this asshole still winning the Republican popularity contest? What does he have to say to get people to distance themselves from him? This whole 'campaign' feels like an episode of South Park.

That is an odd image for him to have copped, since when he was married to his first wife, Ivana, his many affairs at the Trump Tower were legion, and a well known fact to those who toiled there. It all came to light during the expose of his long term affair with Marla Maples, whom he later married and fathered a child with (and whom he never speaks of, by the way). But Maples was hardly his only indiscretion. He was a serial and multiple philanderer. A few years ago, he was even crass and ungentlemanly enough to publicly boast about a onetime affair with an Olympic skater (I forget which one) who had been married at the time, creating a huge and undeserved embarrassment for her.

Chump: so are you dating anyone?

Daughter: why do you want to know?

Ivanka should be considering a restraining order.

Woody married his, didn't he?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen#Soon-Yi_Previn

This would be normal. Wayyyy back in the hills, ya know.

(And those certain parts are probably heavily favoring Trump)

Dad and Daughter Date Night from 6:30-8:30.
Gah!

I have no idea why he would make such a statement... ITS CREEPY AS FUCK!!!

He now has a mortal lock on the so-called "Christian Evangelical" vote.

That this is just a run to increase branding, and he is surprised that he is the front runner. So he starts saying stupid shit so he can drop, but it isn't working! "What the hell do I have to say to lose," he thinks. "Screw it, maybe incest will do it!"

"WHERE DID IT ALL GO RIGHT?"

Saying he thinks she's good enough for him.

for a few years. Ivanka is not like her Dad (although she's very smart, and may be the sibling to one day take over the businesses). She blended in and got along well. And I've read that she and Chelsea Clinton are good friends.

There's something wrong with Trump -- maybe beyond egomania and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Owns the New York Observer.

for the kids to get him into a doctor for a very thorough check-up. But I can imagine it's impossible to try and tell him what he should do.

The logic and critical thinking center of my brain is collapsing. The fact that this guy is the GOP front runner, continues to say and do stupid things, and portrays America in a very poor light; yet he continues to gain support among Republicans is irreconcilable in my mind.

Oop, there it goes, the logic and critical thinking center just formed a singularity. If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner drooling on myself....

It's perverse!

Trump the chump is a pervert...but that's OK with the Republicans, they still love the bastard.

and people think he should be president? i cannot wrap my mind around that, it's too much.

We don't need no stinking forgiveness, huh?

let me suggest this one, he might enjoy it:

Genesis 19:30-38King James Version (KJV)

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

popular he becomes with the republicans.

Just imagine if President Obama said that! They would try to impeach him. They would go on and on for days.....years about it.

Huckabee says that black people aren't eligible for citizenship....maybe Rick Perry dropped out because he doesn't want to be associated with the depravity. Oh, or maybe he is getting ready to go on trial....what a shameful lot of lowlifes.

eeewwwwwwww!

He said he daughter is a beauty, and, in my opinion, implied that her beauty is such that were he not related to her, he would be sexually attracted to her. I don't personally find anything wrong with that, provided that he doesn't and his daughter doesn't.

... Trump's way isn't one of them.

The girls and young women in my own family are intelligent, athletic, and good looking.

But there is no conceivable universe I could imagine them as "dates."

They are our children, and always will be.

I'm absolutely certain my parents, and my wife's parents, still see us as "kids," even as they respect us as adults.

They respected us as children too.

Your own sexuality belongs to you. That's the first rule of sexuality.

If my parents or any other member of my parent's family had ever declared they had some kind of "hots" for me, even limited to their most innocuous daydreams, I would have avoided all further contact with them unless they were medically certified as demented.

I did have a few silly flirtations with my century old great aunt a few times, sharp as tack she was and wicked to the very end, but we both knew it was a silly game. In my forties I was experienced. And then sometimes she'd tell me utterly fabulous stories of her life in Hollywood.

She "flashed" me once, and that was good for a quarter hour, at least, of giggles for both of us, and giggles for me now as I write this, and maybe the amusement added a few more happy days to her own life on this earth.

She was the "bad girl" in her family.

Her sister, my grandma, was the "good girl" and died tragically young of breast cancer. This world is perverse.

If he was not married and/or her father. And you think that is A-OK? Ok.

It's not all different than a comment my mother made to me and she certainly had no incestuous intention. While I wouldn't say that I don't care so long as they're ok with it.

slimeball

There are not enough pejoratives for this cretin...

...the ones that scream about abortion and gay marriage that are later found carrying on affairs or at the nearest strip clubs later that night.

so that we don't have to look at his face for the weekend. Ewww. Seriously, find something else or just take it off the home page. I can't believe that DU is giving this guy as much show time as the MSM. Please take it down.

His stance will certainly win over many voters in West Virginia and Kentucky.

Welcome to the newly revised GOP. This should just about do it for their party. I just wonder how long it will take to totally destroy them? It's still utterly amazing that this clown is beating all other GOP candidates, many of whom currently serve for the government.
It's a true sign of the end of the GOP.

I'm loving the clown show quite a bit this year this time around.

They are self destructing in record numbers. Jindal and Paul have done a great job. Keep it up boys.

The real sad part is that very few people, if any, seem to be standing up to Trump when he makes these statements. Trump has made comments about dating his daughter on about four occasions. Someone should have sternly criticized him over his comments years ago.

women whom Trump can admire as much as he admires a female who reminds him of himself are relatively rare.

Especially the part about lusting over your daughter. Huh, Don?

Dick Cheney, on the other hand...