As the girl confirms her intention to use the escalator, Trump makes a chilling statement to the camera: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?” The disturbing remark adds to the Republican presidential candidate’s already existing list of sexual assaults and inappropriate behavior, per a Vox report from 2016. This incident is consistent with Trump’s inability to separate a woman’s worth from her physical appearance, a tendency that has been repeatedly scrutinized on the global stage. According to Libby Nelson’s Vox analysis, Trump consistently reduces women to their ‘physical attributes,’ perpetuating a culture of objectification and devaluation of women. The video, consequently, shows that this pattern likely extends even to children.
