--- title: Donald Trump 'Locker-Room Banter' Comment Offends Athletes description: After Donald Trump's lewd remarks about women, American athletes are wondering: what kind of locker rooms does Trump hang around? canonical: https://time.com/4526039/donald-trump-locker-room-athletes/ author: Sean Gregory article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-11T02:26:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:50:18.872Z article:section: Sports og:title: Donald Trump 'Locker-Room Banter' Comment Offends Athletes og:description: Pro athletes tell TIME: "He says that this talk is normal, and it's not" og:url: https://time.com/4526039/donald-trump-locker-room-athletes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c1657248415ea77/6988a97f97cdff191e6ae219/c-j-mccollum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: C.J. 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"I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me"_  by [Sean Gregory](https://time.com/author/sean-gregory/)  ## Sean Gregory Senior Correspondent Oct 11, 2016 2:26 AM UTC  by [Sean Gregory](https://time.com/author/sean-gregory/)  ## Sean Gregory Senior Correspondent Oct 11, 2016 2:26 AM UTC American athletes are wondering: what kind of locker rooms does Donald Trump hang around? On Friday, Trump dismissed his [lewd comments](http://time.com/4523755/donald-trump-leaked-tape-impact/), which were captured off-camera before a 2005 Access Hollywood interview — among other things, Trump [bragged about](http://time.com/4523526/donald-trump-women-leaked-audio/) kissing women (“I don’t even wait”) and touching their genitals (“grab them by the p—y. You can do anything”) — as “locker room banter.” He videotaped an apology late Friday night, and expressed remorse for the comments at Sunday night’s debate. Still, during the debate, he [repeatedly referred to his comments](http://time.com/4524406/presidential-debate-donald-trump-locker-room-talk-video/) as “locker room” talk, in a effort to dilute their impact. The message: when guys sit around after hitting the showers, you’ll hear this kind of chatter. Many [athletes condemned](http://motto.time.com/4524837/trump-assault-locker-room/) Trump’s caricature of the locker room. For example Robbie Rogers, a midfielder for the Los Angeles Galaxy, [wrote](https://twitter.com/robbierogers/status/785288945160421376?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) on Twitter: “I’m offended as an athlete that @realDonaldTrump keeps using this “locker room talk” as an excuse.” Former NBA star Grant Hill [wrote](https://twitter.com/realgranthill33/status/785547733243404289), “I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms, and what Trump said is not locker room banter.” Cleveland Cavaliers guard Dahntay Jones [wrote](https://twitter.com/dahntay1/status/785141663480025088?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), “Claiming Trump’s comments are “locker room banter” is to suggest they are somehow acceptable. They aren’t.” **Read More:** [_How a Leaked Tape of Donald Trump Bragging About Groping Women Changed the 2016 Race_](http://time.com/4523755/donald-trump-leaked-tape-impact/) “We talk about a lot of stuff in the locker room,” Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum tells TIME. “We don’t discuss assault.” (During the debate, when pressed by moderator Anderson Cooper, Trump denied doing the offensive things he talked about on the video). That’s not to say the locker room always sounds like choir practice. “Sure, guys sometimes talk about conquests and those types of things,” says former NFL quarterback Sage Rosenfels, a quarterback in the NFL for a dozen years. “But the guys who did that were usually thought of as the more immature players, the players who didn’t get much respect.” Plus, there’s a fine distinction between raunchiness and bragging that you grope women without their consent. “On one side is graphic talk,” says Brendon Ayanbadejo, who spent a decade in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with the 2012 Baltimore Ravens. “The language might even be disgusting. But everyone’s having a good time talking about it. No one is talking about assaulting anyone. That’s criminal talk. Those are completely different places.” **Read More:** [_‘There Is No Room for Objectification of Women’: Nancy O’Dell Addresses Donald Trump Tape_](http://time.com/4525958/nancy-odell-donald-trump-tape/) By equating his comments with mere banter, Trump is playing on a stereotype. Dumb jocks just doing their thing. Towel-snapping, girl-chasing boys just being boys. This depiction bothers Rosenfels. “You wouldn’t believe how much guys talk about politics, movies, music, pop culture, religion,” he says. He remembers players asking him about Judaism — his father is Jewish. Ayanbadejo said he had productive chats with his teammates about marriage equality, an issue he cared deeply about. “Yeah, there’s locker room talk,” he says. “But guys aren’t always sitting there talking about all the times they’ve had oral sex, or doing this and that. There are so many more important things they are doing and talking about. Yeah, there’s a time and place where that stuff may come up. Momentarily. And then we’re onto the next conversation. The conversations just go and go.” Trump’s words surprised Ayanbadejo. He never thought a presidential candidate would boast about forcing himself on women. Rosenfels, however, wasn’t as shocked, since he considers Trump a “gross” individual. “He apologized for his comments, but he really didn’t,” says Rosenfels. “He says that this talk is normal, and it’s not.” ## Transcript We received a lot questions online Mr. Trump about the tape that was released on Friday as you can imagine. You called what you said locker room banter. You described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. That is sexual assault. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that. No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was said. This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. You know, when we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads where you have and frankly. Drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible horrible sights all over. Where you have so many bad things happening. This is like Medieval times. We haven't seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world. And they look and they see. Can you imagine the people that are, frankly, doing so well against us. With ISIS, and they look at our country, and they see what's going on. Yes, I'm very embarrassed by it, I hate it, but it's locker room talk, and it's one of those things. I will knock the hell out of ISIS. We're gonna defeat ISIS. ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left So. Because of bad judgment and I will tell you I will take of vices. Mr. Trump. And we should get onto much more important and much bigger things. Just for the record though are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago that you did not actually Kiss women without consent or grope women without consent. I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect fro women than I do. So for the record, you're saying you never did that. Said things that frankly, you hear these things, they said. And I was embarrassed by it. But I have tremendous respect for women. Have you ever done those things? Have respect for me. And I will tell you, no I have not. And I will tell you that I'm gonna make our country be safe. We're gonna have borders on our country which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country. And they're coming in from the Middle East and other places. We're gonna make America safe again. We're gonna make America great again, but we're gonna make America safe again. And we're gonna make America wealthy again because if you don't do that, It sounds harsh to say but we have to build up the wealth of our- Thank you Mr. Trump. Nation. Right now other nations are taking our jobs and they're taking our wealth. Thank you Mr. Trump. And that's what I wanna talk about. This tape is generating intense interest. In just 48 hours it's become the single most talked about story. Of the entire 2016 election on Facebook. With millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network. As we said a moment ago we do want to bring questions from voters across the country via social media. And our first stays on this topic, Jeff from Ohio asks on Facebook Trump says the campaign has changed him. When did that happen? So, Mr. Trump, let me add to that, when you walked off that bus at age 59, were you a different man, or did that behavior continue until just recently? And you have two minutes for this. As I told you, that was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country, and certainly I'm not proud of it. But that was something that happened if you look at Bill Clinton Far worse mine are words and his was action. His worse what he's done to women. There's never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you wanna say it but Bill Clinton was abusive to women. Hillary Clinton attack the same women. And attack them viciously. Four of them here tonight. One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old was raped, at 12. Her client, she represented got him off and she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy Shelton, that young woman, is with us here tonight. So don't tell me about words. I am absolutely, I apologize for those words. But it is things that people say. But what President Clinton did, he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law, he had to pay an 850, 000 Dollar fine to one of the women, Paula Jones whose also here tonight. And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago. I think it's disgraceful and I think she should be ashamed of herself if you want to know the truth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4526039/donald-trump-locker-room-athletes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4526039/donald-trump-locker-room-athletes/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Dismisses His 'Locker-Room Talk' as Normal. 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