Five of Trump’s most controversial statements amid Omarosa meltdown, from genital grabbing to creepy compliments

Following claims from a former White House aide that she heard a tape of the US president using the N-word, we sort through the catalogue of Trump’s previous gaffes to bring together the craziest and most cringeworthy

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US President Donald Trump speaks beside Omarosa Manigault-Newman, then director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, during a meeting on African American History Month in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on February 1, 2017. Photo: EPA-EFE

Published: 12:20pm, 15 Aug 2018Updated: 12:43pm, 15 Aug 2018

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman has used a memoir to detail some of the faux pas of Donald Trump before and since he became US president.

What she says about Trump, his vulgar jokes and use of offensive language paint an unflattering picture of a man she has known since the early days of his reality TV career on The Apprentice.

But it’s not as if we haven’t seen that side of the man already. Never mind his Twitter feed – here are five of Trump’s most notorious public statements and private boasts.

Then Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton finishing their third and final 2016 presidential campaign debate in Las Vegas in October 2016. Photo: Reuters

1. “Grab them by the p***y”

In October 2016, two days before the second presidential debate between then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, a tape was released of a conversation between Trump and a TV host, Billy Bush, while they were on their way to film an episode of the show Access Hollywood. On the tape, recorded in 2005, Trump described in vulgar terms his attempt to seduce a married woman, and said he might kiss a female celebrity the pair were going to meet.