Billy Bush: What a difference six months makes
Left: At the Kaleidoscope Ball May 21, 2016
Presented by the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
"...to benefit the UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI)."
Right: Monday October 10 2016
After his suspension from NBC Today Show.
This is only 3 days after the suspension, although Bush may have known about it before.
He looks bloated and heavier, probably due to lack of sleep and his messy stubble
Trump defends his T&A banter with Billy Bush as something which all men do, especially in locker rooms.
Think about it. Does your husband speak like this anywhere? Your father, your brother, your boss, your colleague? I've never heard, or heard of, any of these members of my circle speak in such a manner, or accused of speaking like this, EVER!
Trump's casino lifestyle, where he has associated with low-lifes and criminals, tells us where he heard such language.
Trump wth Bob Libutti,
"a racehorse swindler" with ties to the mafia, in 1994
Interview on Wall Street Journal outlining Trump's shady connections
And in true Trump style, he drags people down with him.
Trump the Senior Role Model
With Billy Bush interviewing him in 2004 at the 56th Emmy Awards
Trump the senior role model
Admittedly, Billy Bush, then entertainment reporter at the mildly tabloid Hollywood Reporter, willingly participated in the post-interview banter.
I didn't know Bush is part of that Bush. But he does have that cheeky grin President Bush Jr. used to display in moments of confidence, and I've seen him on some shows where he is fast-talking and slightly abrasive. But his boyish grin excused him from audience wrath. Somewhere in the ample links now tied to his name on the WWW there is an interview where he asks Jennifer Lopez about her big behind. I bet J-Lo didn't mind that question at all, and it most likely added to her millions of fans (mostly male) who have no problems with her ample anatomy.
If Presidential Nominee Donald Trump had stuck to his casinos and real estate deals, no-one would have bothered him as he went about his usual abuses other than law enforcement agencies and various shades of mafia and criminal organizations he was known to cavort with. The women would have sucked it up and kept quiet as par for the course.
Nancy O'Dell, the woman Trump was bragging about, was Billy Bush's co-host at Access Hollywood at the time, knew that Trump's words were normal in the nefarious entertainment industry, which is what she signed up for when she took the job at Access Hollywood. O'Dell was in the middle of a divorce at the time (here is her Wikipedia chronology) and probably not a particularly convivial co-host to Bush.
Bush had three young children in 2005 when this incident too place, with a wife he had been married to since 1999. Perhaps the thirty-three-year-old Bush was worried about how to keep his job with the appearance of this fifty-nine-year-old media czar, senior to him by twenty-six years who took a liking to him. He had to play along.
And who lost? Billy Bush has now been suspended from his job at NBC's entertainment reporting program the Today Show, whereas Trump runs around reigning in pathetic women to appear at his televised assault on the American public, women who were willing accomplices in Bill Clinton's escapades. Bush may be wealthy by ordinary men's standards but he still has to hustle and work. He has a wife and three young children who have by now got used to living in the Hollywood Hills.
Surely that is why Presidential Nominee Donald Trump's current Eastern European wife kept quiet all these years (and how she managed to "forgive" him). How did she get into America and into the Trump House in the first place? Her immigration trajectory into America is still a mystery. She came to America as a "model," which in pop culture lingo means she "modeled" nude or semi-nude for various magazines before she met Trump. And there is one where she lies across a bear skin rug in nothing but her skin when she was co-habiting with the Donald. Presidential Nominee Donald Trump gives her the kind of life unimaginable for a poor Slovanian girl who used to live in Communist housing. She made it BIG in America. I'm sure there's very little she wouldn't do.
I suspect part of her "forgiveness" ("I forgive him" she declared when all this started to implode as her husband geared up for his role as America's leader) is for Trump's insatiable appetite for "pretty women." I don't doubt he still gallivants around. He made those taped statements with Billy Bush while Melania Trump was in his Tower, pregnant with their son. If he can do that then, what does he do at other times?
Melania Trump on her roadkill, posing for GQ in 1999
While Trump's live-in girlfriend
And before their 2005 marriage
Trump's roadkill are not just media personalities, but his family (or his wives) as well. Ivana Trump is a wreck of a woman. Marla cheated on him, which was no victory for her. How can anyone stay married to such an egomaniac? Melania better be careful.
Left: Billie Bush and his family
Wife of 18 years, Sydney
Daughters Josie 18, Mary Bradley 15, and Lillie 9
Right: Trump with his third family
Wife of 11 years, Melania
Son Barron 10