'If anything inappropriate had gone on, the gossip would have flown.'īillado said she told Ivanka Trump (Trump’s daughter), about Donald Trump entering the room while the girls were changing their clothes. But most were dubious or dismissed the possibility out of hand.Īllison Bowman, former Miss Wisconsin Teen USA, cast doubt on whether it happened. Of the 11 (contestants) who said they don’t remember Trump coming into the changing room, some said it was possible that it happened while they weren’t in the room or that they didn’t notice. Two of them said the girls rushed to cover their bodies, with one calling it 'shocking' and 'creepy.' The third said she was clothed and introduced herself to Trump. Three other women, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of getting engulfed in a media firestorm, also remembered Trump entering the dressing room while girls were changing. Trump, she recalled, said something like, 'Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.' 'I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’ ' said Mariah Billado, the former Miss Vermont Teen USA. Several hours before Kind made his statement, BuzzFeed reported the allegations from four former contestants ( and later, a fifth).įour women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant said Donald Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants - some as young as 15 - were changing.

But we'll lay out what we do know about the allegation.

We're not going to rate this on our Truth-O-Meter, since some of the key sources are anonymous. The implication is that the alleged incident, back when the Republican nominee owned the pageant, wasn’t a mistake. So, did Trump 'walk right in on' naked 15- and 16-year-old contestants in their dressing room? Man, is that the image we want of the president of the United States? It’s just disturbing to think that he could get away with all this stuff.'

'I was just reading on the way over here this morning on how Trump would walk into the (Miss) Teen USA dressing room, all these 15- and 16-year-olds completely naked, just walk right in on them.

Ron Kind, D-Wis., commented on one of the latest revelations, saying: 12, 2016, meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, U.S. As waves of allegations of Donald Trump’s inappropriate behavior toward females swept over the presidential campaign, reaction from around the country was swift.ĭuring an Oct.

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