[CarlV]

Donald Dump makes all the right calls. Just ask him, real presidential decision making stuff here.

In 1996, Trump had just taken over the Miss Universe pageant. His then wife, Marla Maples, was one of the hosts on the night Machado won the tiara.

But within a few months, she gained weight and rumors swirled that she could lose her crown.

Trump finally insisted that she lose weight, calling her "an eating machine" on Howard Stern's radio show. He took her to work out in a gym packed with media.

“She weighed 118 pounds or 117 pounds and she went to 160 or 170. So this is somebody that likes to eat,” he said at the time.

Machado, who claims she actually gained closer to 15 pounds, told IE she felt publicly shamed. She said he called her “Miss Piggy." It made her feel “so fat” that it made her “very depressed," she said.

At the time Trump took Machado to the gym, he was asked by a reporter: “What happens if Marla gains this kind of weight? Would you drop her?”

“Well, I’d probably do the same thing with her,” he said. “I'd say 'start working out.' No, I wouldn't. Still a very interesting question.”
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Carl