--- title: Donald Trump Made Sexual Comments About Former Miss Universe description: Donald Trump "got even" with a former Miss Universe winner by making sexual comments in front of a large audience at an event in 2011 canonical: https://time.com/4549730/donald-trump-former-miss-universe-sexual-comments/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-28T19:42:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:25.255Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump 'Got Even' With Former Miss Universe by Making Sexual Comments og:description: "She came ― came, she came, she came," he said onstage as she stood beside him og:url: https://time.com/4549730/donald-trump-former-miss-universe-sexual-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac1d594249beafa/6988ac068e060192644680a1/trump-jennifer-hawkins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2418 og:image:height: 1360 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Speaks In Australia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump 'Got Even' With Former Miss Universe by Making Sexual Comments twitter:description: "She came ― came, she came, she came," he said onstage as she stood beside him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac1d594249beafa/6988ac068e060192644680a1/trump-jennifer-hawkins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump 'Got Even' With Former Miss Universe by Making Sexual Comments Onstage > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump and former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins attend the National Achievers Congress at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney on Sept. 20, 2011. Adam Ward—Newspix/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Oct 28, 2016 7:42 PM UTC Donald Trump “got even” with a former Miss Universe winner by chastising her and making sexual comments in front of a large audience at an event in 2011. “Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe that,” Trump said while speaking at the event in Sydney, Australia, according to a video [published by the Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jennifer-hawkins-video%5Fus%5F58137b85e4b0390e69cfbbba?niqfgfcfziu23xr) on Friday. The video shows Trump calling 2004 Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins up on stage with him. “This is about getting even. I was so angry at her yesterday,” Trump says, explaining that he thought Hawkins had declined to introduce him at the event. “I was actually going to get up and tell you that Jennifer is a beautiful girl on the outside, but she’s not very bright. That wouldn’t have been true, but I would have said it anyway,” Trump says, with Hawkins standing beside him. “Because I said, ‘You know what, it would be great. I haven’t seen Jennifer in a couple of years. She’s so great and she did so well, and she’s a big star here, and I helped her make it ― I own the Miss Universe pageant. And I heard that she wouldn’t introduce me.'” “But I did,” Hawkins interjects. “No, but you didn’t. So what happens is ― and you know what? She came tonight, she came ― came, she came, she came,” Trump says, as the audience laughs. “See, so they have the same filthy minds in Australia.” “As you,” Hawkins says. She later steps closer to the microphone to clarify that there had been a miscommunication with her management team. “I’m really sorry. I felt really bad,” she says. “There aren’t too many women who are taller than me,” Trump says about her, hugging Hawkins before dismissing her from the stage. Trump has faced scrutiny in recent weeks for his lewd comments about women, after a [leaked 2005 recording](http://time.com/4523755/donald-trump-leaked-tape-impact/) showed him boasting about groping women. Multiple women have since [come forward to accuse him](http://time.com/4541817/donald-trump-jessica-drake/) of inappropriately touching or kissing them without consent. Trump also feuded last month with [former Miss Universe Alicia Machado](http://time.com/4514358/donald-trump-alicia-machado-feud/), who he first insulted in the 1990s when she gained some weight after winning the competition. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4549730/donald-trump-former-miss-universe-sexual-comments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4549730/donald-trump-former-miss-universe-sexual-comments/"},"headline":"Donald Trump 'Got Even' With Former Miss Universe by Making Sexual Comments Onstage","datePublished":"2016-10-28T19:42:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:25.255Z","description":"\"She came ― came, she came, she came,\" he said as she stood beside him","url":"https://time.com/4549730/donald-trump-former-miss-universe-sexual-comments/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac1d594249beafa/6988ac068e060192644680a1/trump-jennifer-hawkins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ac1d594249beafa/6988ac068e060192644680a1/trump-jennifer-hawkins.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Speaks In Australia","caption":"SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 20: (EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA OUT) Donald Trump and former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins attends the National Achievers Congress at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on September 20, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. 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