Women tell Trump his obscene comments are 'not OK' in powerful new video
Warning: This post contains a video that describes some occasions of sexual assault.
Meryl Streep, Amy Schumer and Rose McGowan are among the famous faces that appear alongside women who have experienced sexual assault in a powerful new video condemning Donald Trump.
The clip, entitled "It's Not OK" and produced by pro-Clinton group Humanity for Hillary, mixes footage from the leaked 2005 audio tape in which Trump talks about touching and kissing women with first person accounts of sexual assault.
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The video also features clips of Trump dismissing his comments as "locker room talk" and claiming all the subsequent claims of assault against him are false, contrasted with some stark reminiscences from women about times they've been sexually assaulted.
Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lena Dunham also feature in the clip, lining up to tell Trump that "it's not OK."
Actress Amber Tamblyn, who publicly revealed her own experience of assault earlier this month, appears too. "I think people like Donald Trump will never understand the correlation that women understand between words and actions," she says. “Especially when you’re a man in a position of power and you talk that way publicly ... you are telling the world that it’s OK to behave that way.”
Melania Trump appeared on CNN Monday to defend her husband, telling Anderson Cooper that Trump was "egged on" into "boy talk" during the 2005 incident and dismissing the multiple claims of assault against him as "lies."
If you have experienced sexual abuse, call the free, confidential National Sexual Assault hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), or access the 24-7 help online by visiting online.rainn.org.
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Tim Chester was Senior Editor, Real Time News in Los Angeles. Before that he was Deputy Editor of Mashable UK in London. Prior to joining Mashable, Tim was a Senior Web Editor at Penguin Random House, helping to relaunch the Rough Guides website and other travel brands. He was also a writer for Buzzfeed, GQ and The Sunday Times, covering everything from culture to tech and current affairs. Before that, he was Deputy Editor at NME.COM, overseeing content and development on the London-based music and entertainment site. Tim loves music and travel and has combined these two passions at festivals from Iceland to Malawi and beyond.
