--- description: Donald Trump is continuing a smear campaign against former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, now urging supporters to watch her alleged sex tape. title: Donald Trump on Alicia Machado: Check Out Her Sex Tape image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Donald Trump](/tag/donald-trump/) ## Donald Trump Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Donald Trump Urges Followers To Check Out Alicia Machado's 'Sex Tape'  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:27 PM CUTPublished: Sep 30, 2016 12:26 PM CUT  Getty Images (2)  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:27 PM CUTPublished: Sep 30, 2016 12:26 PM CUT After Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump during Monday’s debate of saying sexist things about former Miss Universe [Alicia Machado](http://time.com/4509243/donald-trump-miss-universe-alicia-machado-piggy-housekeeping/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined"), Trump has now responded by urging supporters to watch Machado’s alleged sex tape. In a blast of tweets during the early hours of Friday morning, Trump said Machado was his “worst Miss U”: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/781784161044553728) He called Machado a “con”: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/781785509639118848) And he told his Twitter followers to watch alleged sex tapes of Machado, while claiming that Clinton’s team used her as a pawn: > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/781788223055994880) Myth-busting website [Snopes found](http://www.snopes.com/alicia-machado-adult-star/ "undefined") that Machado has not, in fact, starred in any pornographic films. She did appear on the Spanish reality show _La_ _Granja_ in 2005 where she reportedly was filmed having sex with a cast mate, but Snopes writes that the tape “is nothing more than some grainy, night-vision footage of a couple of covered figures writhing in a bed, \[which\] hardly qualifies as explicit. And reality television being what it is, the scene the tape depicts was quite possibly staged or fabricated.” As for her “past”_:_ Shortly after she was crowned Miss Universe, Machado was accused of being involved in an attempted murder, but the [charges were dropped](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/28/who-alicia-machado/ "undefined"). Speaking on CNN this week, [Machado said](http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/alicia-machado-donald-trump-2016-election-anderson-cooper/ "undefined") of the incident, “You know, I have my past. Of course, everybody has a past. I’m not a saint girl. But that is not the point now.” Machado has been working with the Clinton campaign this year and did recently [become a citizen](http://motto.time.com/4463063/miss-universe-vote-donald-trump/ "undefined") and will vote against Trump, but there is no evidence that Clinton’s campaign had anything to do with her citizenship. Trump’s smear campaign against Machado began in the late 1990s, with the comments that Clinton dredged up in the debate. At the time, he allegedly called Machado, who is Venezuelan, ‘Miss Housekeeping’ and ‘Miss Piggy’ when she gained weight after she was crowned Miss Universe at age 19. Along with advancing sordid theories about Machado’s past, Trump continues to double down on his initial criticism of her weight. “She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem,” [he said on _Fox and Friends_](http://motto.time.com/4510014/donald-trump-alicia-machado-body-shaming/?iid=sr-link2 "undefined") the morning after the debate. **Read More:** [Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Miss Universe and the Politics of Weight](http://time.com/4512798/double-standards-available-in-his-and-hers/?xid=homepage "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Urges Followers To Check Out Alicia Machado's 'Sex Tape'","datePublished":"2016-09-30T12:26:30.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T18:27:19.000Z","description":"He also suggests Hillary Clinton helped her become a U.S. citizen","url":"https://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf5cd9b9536cea2ca/6988a82d524fc0df52df9ace/machado-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"machado-trump","caption":"Donald Trump and Alicia Machado","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/","name":"Donald Trump Urges Followers To Check Out Alicia Machado's 'Sex Tape'"}}]}] ```