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Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer

Donald Trump's "naked sexism," including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name "Anonymous."

Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, describes several incidents that made women in the Trump administration uncomfortable in his upcoming book Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, an extract of which was obtained exclusively by Newsweek.

These incidents included, the book says, claims by aides that Trump made lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka's appearance and talked about "what it might be like to have sex with her." This prompted a rebuke from his chief of staff, the book says.

It comes after several former staffers last month spoke about Trump's pattern of behaving inappropriately with women while president, after a New York jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and is appealing the Carroll judgment, but his alleged behavior toward women may impact his chances of securing another term in the White House in 2024.

"There still are quite a few female leaders from the Trump administration who have held their tongues about the unequal treatment they faced in the administration at best, and the absolute naked sexism they experienced with the hands of Donald Trump at worst," Taylor told Newsweek.

Donald and Ivanka Trump at a White House event on January 31, 2020. He is alleged to have made lewd comments about her appearance. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

In his book, Taylor describes Trump's "undisguised sexism" toward the women in his administration, from relatively low-level aides to cabinet secretaries.

He recalls witnessing such behavior first-hand in meetings with Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen, who was secretary of homeland security from 2017 to 2019.

"When we were with him, Kirstjen did her best to ignore the president's inappropriate behavior," Taylor writes in his book. "He called her 'sweetie' and 'honey,' and critiqued her makeup and outfits."

After a crass comment from Trump, he recalls Nielsen whispering to him: "Trust me, this is not a healthy workplace for women." Nielsen has been contacted for comment.

He also recalled that Kellyanne Conway, who served as senior counselor, had once referred to Trump as a "misogynistic bully" after a meeting during which he had "berated" several female leaders in the administration.

Trump had lashed out at Nielsen and other White House staff about the border during that March 2019 meeting, according to a source familiar with the incident.

A source in Conway's office denied she made the comment. "That is a lie," the source told Newsweek. "Despite trying to resuscitate the 15 minutes of fame, Miles Taylor should have stayed 'Anonymous.'"

Taylor also recalled how during one Oval Office meeting, Trump thought he saw Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then White House press secretary, in the room outside it.

It turned out to be one of his personal assistants, not Sanders. "Whoops," Trump responded, according to Taylor. "I was going to say, 'Man, Sarah, you've lost a lot of weight!'"

Sanders, now the governor of Arkansas, has been contacted for comment.

According to Taylor's book, the worst of the behavior was Trump's lewd comments about his own daughter.

"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," Taylor writes.

"Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was 'a very, very evil man.'"

Trump's spokesperson has been contacted for comment. Kelly, who was White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, has been contacted for comment.

Taylor says he believes Trump remains unchanged as he leads the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and fears a second Trump term could be far worse.

"He's a pervert, he's difficult to deal with," the source told Newsweek. "This is still the same man and, incredibly, we're considering electing him to the presidency again."

Miles Taylor, a former Trump administration official, describes former president Donald Trump's "undisguised sexism" in his upcoming book. Miles Taylor

Taylor, a longstanding member of the Republican Party until he left in 2022, said it's important to think about the types of people Trump would bring into a second term.

"This man is closing the door to all kinds of potential talent, so you would expect even more dangerous people in a second term," he said.

"He's setting a very vile tone within the Republican Party, and in a sense has normalized pretty derisive views towards women in general. I mean, it's why we've seen other MAGA candidates that carry such baggage, like Trump. That's why we've seen copycats pop up around the country."

Taylor's 2018 op-ed in The New York Times, under the pen name "Anonymous" and headlined "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration," was fiercely critical of Trump. He revealed that he was the author in 2020 as he campaigned against Trump's re-election. He is now a member of the centrist Forward Party.

A Newsweek photo illustration. From left, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen, Donald Trump, and Ivanka Trump. Trump's alleged sexist comments have been revealed in a new book. Newsweek; Source photo by Getty Images

In a CNN town hall immediately after the Carroll judgment, Trump repeated prior claims that he did not know who she was. He has repeatedly denied behaving inappropriately toward women and has said that the allegations against him are politically motivated.

Trump has a history of making what critics deem inappropriate comments about his daughter Ivanka. In a 2006 appearance on ABC talk show The View alongside her, he said that "if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. Isn't that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible?"

In a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, he reportedly said that "she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father..."

In a 2016 interview with CBS News about her father's attitude to women, Ivanka Trump said that he was "not a groper". "He has total respect for women," she said. "He believes ultimately in merit."

Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, by Miles Taylor, is available from July 18, published by Simon & Schuster.

The 25 Most Influential Works Of Postwar Queer Literature

"Sister Outsider" is essentially Audre Lorde's thesis statement, an amalgam of essays, speeches and interview text. The central tenets by which the poet, writer and activist sought to live her life — calling out the greed of a for-profit economy and the need for social justice — are laid out here in her precise, metaphor-rich language. In "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," she compares that erotic knowledge to a "tiny, intense pellet of yellow coloring perched like a topaz," a kernel that she "would knead … gently back and forth." As she notes in an interview with the poet Adrienne Rich, "When someone said to me, 'How do you feel?' or 'What do you think?' … I would recite a poem, and somewhere in that poem would be the feeling, the vital piece of information." Lorde repeatedly stresses the importance, and the beauty, of her disparate identities as a Black lesbian poet and how the feminist and civil rights movements must acknowledge such differences in order to succeed. To read this book is to be reminded that questions about privilege and intersectionality are not new and that almost every conversation about them owes something to Lorde, who wrote in her poem "Who Said It Was Simple" (1973), "But I who am bound by my mirror / as well as my bed / see causes in colour / as well as sex / and sit here wondering / which me will survive / all these liberations." — Tomi Obaro

Soller: We have to discuss these hybrid forms. Many of you emailed me various thoughts about memoir and autofiction. Roxane, I'm curious how you would characterize a book like "Sister Outsider," because it's many different things, most of which we'd consider nonfiction. For this list, we're focusing on fiction, poetry, plays, performance. But how do you all feel about those constraints? What do you think queer literature specifically has to say with its hybrid forms?

Gay: I don't think you can overlook nonfiction in talking about queer literature. Nonfiction was where we were first allowed to articulate our realities. It's fundamental. Frankly, it's more important than fiction and poetry. Nonfiction, hybrid forms, memoirs — these are the ways we were able to write ourselves into public consciousness.

Edmund White: I thoroughly agree. You know, what they call autofiction … Certainly, all the great gay French writers, like [Marcel] Proust and André Gide, they all were writing autobiographical fiction of some sort. Maybe they were disguising themselves, but still, they oftentimes used the word "I." Once, on a debate stage, I was talking about [Ernest] Hemingway's [1927] story "Hills Like White Elephants," and I was saying that a heterosexual writer could assume that the reader had the same values as he did, and so he could use indirectness — it's about abortion, yet Hemingway never uses that word — but that a gay writer like Proust had such unusual ideas that he had to spell them out for the general public.

Kron: This brings up the interesting idea of who writers are writing for. Are people writing to be apprehended by a mainstream audience, or are they writing within the subculture? To me, the greatest gift of being a lesbian is where it exists outside of things like patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy: where it's not knocking on the door, asking for admission, but firmly standing somewhere else, articulating what it sees. So while I think the term "queer" is appealing in its capaciousness, I always feel slightly wary of it because it's so easily marketed and commodified.

McBee: With trans people, there's a desire for our stories that's often othering and salacious. I see a market demand for that [kind of] nonfiction because, so often, we're hard to even imagine. Queer and trans people have, amazingly, taken that demand and subverted it, and that's why those kinds of stories are so important.

Mukherjee: When did autobiographical become autofictional? Also, Roxane, the point you were making about how some of the greatest truths of queer culture and activism have been done in nonfiction … Oddly enough, queer fiction writers have long hidden behind persona and character to write about queer culture and about themselves. Ed was talking about Proust and Gide —

White: Willa Cather is a good example, too.

Mukherjee: Same with Damon Galgut. Ed put "In a Strange Room" on his list. Its three narratives are united by a first-person narrator called Damon, who is the central character. I remember interviewing Galgut once and saying, "Your character Damon" — and he stopped me and said, "No, that's not a character, that's me." I thought to myself, "I'm trying to protect you here," which is a very quaint protectiveness on my part. But it's a very, very intense book — a masterpiece, actually.

'The Jungle Book' Star 'cried' Over Frank Sinatra's '70s Comeback, Daughter Says

Lena Prima, daughter of "The King of Swing," wants to help set the record straight.

For years, many have wondered how her father Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra – two Italian crooners who heated up Sin City – felt about each other. She insisted there was no rivalry between the two legends.

"[My dad] loved and respected him," Prima told Fox News Digital.

Prima, a fellow singer, is keeping her father's love of music alive. She has an ongoing Vegas-style residency at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana. The patriarch gave some of his final performances at the swanky French Quarter hotel before he died in 1978 at age 67.

Louis Prima, a beloved musician in Hollywood, New Orleans and Las Vegas, passed away in 1978 at age 67. (Courtesy of Lena Prima)

One thing she vividly remembers is the late trumpeter's admiration for Ol' Blue Eyes.

"There was a point in the '70s where Frank Sinatra had a comeback special that was televised," she recalled. "[My dad] put chairs right in front of the TV set. He made us all sit there and watch Frank Sinatra. He just cried the whole time stating he was the greatest singer in the world. 'Right now, you are seeing the greatest singer in the world.'"

"I'll never forget how much he respected Frank Sinatra," she shared. "… I do know that he absolutely admired him."

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Frank Sinatra and Louis Prima film a comedic skit for the short-lived "Frank Sinatra Show" alongside Joyce Beatty. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

In 1958, Louis and his singing partner Keely Smith, who was also his wife, made a TV appearance on the short-lived "Frank Sinatra Show." During a comedic sketch, Sinatra asked the bob-haired songstress what they were going to sing.

"We?" Smith replied after jokingly telling Sinatra she didn't need Louis.

"You and me," Sinatra said.

Frank Sinatra wanted to sign Keely Smith to an album of ballads. (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

"Oh, please," she said. "I work alone."

But when cameras stopped rolling, Sinatra wanted to sign Smith to an album of ballads, The Los Angeles Times reported. According to the outlet, this reportedly put a strain on her already crumbling marriage to Louis. They divorced personally and professionally in 1961. By then, Smith was focused on being in more control of her career as a solo act, setting up her own label, Keely Records.

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In 1962 Louis met Gia Maione – Lena Prima's mother. She became his fifth and final wife the following year. Sinatra went on to sign Smith to his label, Reprise Records, and they recorded their duet "So in Love" that same year. Smith later claimed to The Desert Sun that Sinatra had asked her to marry him when her relationship with Louis was nearly over. However, she rejected him, believing that their union wouldn't have lasted. 

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Louis Prima and Keely Smith called it quits both personally and professionally in 1961. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Smith married Jimmy Bowen, who produced hit records with Sinatra for Reprise. The couple divorced in 1969.

The star, widely credited for being the only female member of the Rat Pack, passed away in 2017 at age 89.

Prima insisted that when it came to her famous father, there were no hard feelings. Instead, he simply enjoyed life.

Keely Smith claimed she turned down Frank Sinatra's offer to marry him. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

"My dad was not like that," she explained. "I think honestly back in those days, everybody supported everybody. That's how the Rat Pack got started. They all came to see my dad after their shows, and he would just let them all get up on stage and cut up and be funny. And it was all part of the show. I think my dad loved that and so did everybody else. I think entertainers really supported each other [in those days]."

Louis Prima composing with his trumpet on the Hotel Astor roof garden, between sessions with his band, New York City, circa 1950. (FPG/Getty Images)

Prima described how in 1961, Sinatra personally invited her father to perform at the inaugural gala for President John F. Kennedy. The two men performed "Old Black Magic" together.

"There was a commemorative plaque in our home thanking him for his performance," she said. "I did later see a video in a documentary where they showed him over Frank Sinatra's shoulder, kind of whispering words into his ear as they were making up a funny song about Kennedy and singing 'Old Black Magic.' And that's so my dad. That's what he did."

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Frank Sinatra, Pat Suzuki, Louis Prima and Keely Smith perform onstage at President Kennedy's inaugural ball in 1961. (Tom Nebbia/Corbis via Getty Images)

"And my parents, they loved each other," she said. "My mom loved my dad, my dad loved my mom. There was just so much love, laughter and music in our household. My mom was also a wonderful singer. There was constant music and dancing in our house."

Louis, whose career spanned four decades, had hits with "Jump, Jive, An' Wail," "Buono Sera," "Just a Gigolo" and the now TikTok favorite "Che La Luna," just to name a few. With Smith, they recorded three songs that reached the Billboard Hot 100: "That Old Black Magic," "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" and "I've Got You Under My Skin."

Louis Prima with Lena Prima, who had just turned 1. (Courtesy of Lena Prima)

"As far back as I could remember, I felt that my dad was such a magical person," said Prima. "He had so much charisma and joy about him. He was like a big cartoon character. I always felt he was special… The first time I saw him perform was when I got to sit in the audience as a small child, which didn't ever happen. His children weren't ever allowed, but for some reason, I was allowed to go sit in the audience."

Louis Prima found love again with singer Gia Maione, Lena Prima's mother. The marriage lasted until his death. (Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images)

"I was really young, but I'll never forget it," she gushed. "The people were all dressed up. It was Vegas, so you heard the sounds of the slot machines and the glasses clinking. And then the band started. The curtain opened, and they just blew the roof off the place. People went crazy. And when they introduced my dad, he came out so proud with his trumpet. It was just the most exciting thing. It sticks in my mind to this day, that memory of seeing him perform live."

Louis Prima with his daughter Lena Prima at The Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. (Courtesy of Lena Prima)

In 1967, Louis voiced King Louie of the Apes in the Disney animated film "The Jungle Book" and recorded "I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)." It's a track Prima said she likes to play to a delighted audience.

"He wanted to do more things for Disney," she said. "He recorded a couple of albums. He recorded a 'Winnie the Pooh' album, and he recorded a 'Mary Poppins' album. He loved it. He was really hopeful that he could do more things. He was working on something called 'The Rescuers' before he got sick. He never got to finish that. But he absolutely loved it. He was the perfect King Louie."

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Louis Prima and Walt Disney, who is holding a sketch of King Louie from "The Jungle Book." Prima was eager to record more Disney tunes before he got sick. (Courtesy of Lena Prima)

Prima noted that, unlike some stars from Hollywood's golden era, her father had a positive experience skyrocketing to fame. And when he began performing in Vegas, his Hollywood pals cheered him on.

"The reason that he was such a success in Vegas was that all those stars and friends he made in Hollywood all came to see him when he opened there," she said. "It was this new glamorous place in the desert, you know? And they all showed up."

Dorothy Lamour, a Hollywood actress from the '40s and '50s, visiting hot spot The Famous Door. (Courtesy of Lena Prima)

"He had a club called The Famous Door where everybody that was famous came in the club and signed the door," she continued. "In the '70s, a friend of his kept that door for him… He had it sent to our house, and we got to see the door. Everybody's signature was on there. Walt Disney, Clark Gable, Lucille Ball – just everybody you can imagine. It's in the Smithsonian now. He had a really great experience in Hollywood, and it led him to Vegas, where he had major success."

Lena Prima and The Lena Prima Band perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (Josh Brasted/WireImage)

Today, Prima hopes to continue delivering the same charm her father was known for.

"I think the message of my dad was joy," she said. "Happiness – embrace the moment. And just have fun."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.Com.

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