Trump says Ivanka calls him 'daddy,' and he likes it

Vom.
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Brian Koerber
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Trump says Ivanka calls him 'daddy,' and he likes it
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President Donald Trump's relationship with his daughter Ivanka has always been a bit on the creepy side. Holding the highest office didn't make that go away.

Trump was speaking about taxes in North Dakota on Wednesday when he likely went off script. As we all know, bad things happen when Trump goes off script.

At one point in the speech, Trump decided to invite Ivanka on stage in one of the grossest ways possible.

First, Trump joked that people think higher of him because of his daughter.

"Sometimes they'll say 'you know he can't be that bad a guy, look at Ivanka,'" Trump said.

Then he told everyone that Ivanka, a 35-year-old woman, referred to him as "daddy."

"She said, 'Dad, can I go with you?' She actually said, 'Daddy, can I go with you?' I like that, right?" Trump boasted on stage.

Calling your father 'daddy' is cute when you're a child. The term "daddy" has a much different meaning when you're an adult.

To make matters worse, Trump admitted that he likes it when Ivanka calls him daddy.

Via Giphy

Trump has previously made disgusting comments about Ivanka. In 2006 Trump said on The View, "if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps, I would be dating her.”

Let that sink in for a moment.

In 2015 he made a similar comment to Rolling Stone about Ivanka: "Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . . "

Like the comments before, this daddy reveal grossed out people across the internet.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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