| Donald Trump's having a tough week with the ladies. After a disappointing debate against Hillary Clinton, a poll reported by NBC found Trump's performance left most likely women voters unsatisfied. |
| Then Trump spent recent days defending criticisms of Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe who said Trump called her "Miss Piggy" after she gained weight and "Miss Housekeeping" in an apparent reference to her Latino heritage. |
| Then, on Thursday, a report surfaced that Trump demanded unattractive women be fired from a Trump golf club in California. |
| Can Donald Trump woo back women voters to help him become the first president to star in a sex comedy about ghosts, as he did in the 1991 film "Ghosts Can't Do It?" We've got 38 days to find out. |
| It's For the Record, the politics newsletter from USA TODAY. And we really want to host a screening of "Ghosts Can't Do it." |
| Hakuna Machado? Trump claims he helped beauty queen he insulted |
| Late Wednesday, Trump spoke with Fox News to set the record straight: He actually helped Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe whom Trump also called "an eating machine." |
| In an interview, Trump said he was the one who intervened to save Machado's job when she gained weight after becoming the 1996 Miss Universe. |
| "I saved her job because I said, 'that's going to be ruinous' and I've done that with a number of the young ladies," Trump said. |
| Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, backed Trump's account Thursday on "The View." She also said, however, that she scolded Trump for the way he talks about women. |
| "Did you reprimand him for that and say to him: 'Listen, why are you saying women are fat? Why are you calling women fat pigs?'" host Joy Behar asked Conway. |
| "Yes," Conway said, adding: "I think it's beside the point." |
| Clinton to Trump: Just try bringing up my marital problems. Just try it. |
| Some of Trump's supporters want him to bring up Bill Clinton's history with women, including Monica Lewinsky, during the next two debates. Trump himself said he considered on bringing up Lewinsky in the first debate. |
| That'd be a "big mistake" and would "backfire," Clinton's camp warned. |
| "I'm not going to comment on how he runs his campaign," Hillary Clinton said when asked about the possibility Thursday, adding that "you'll be able to see" what happens in the next debates. |
| How it could be a mistake for Trump, a thrice-married man who separated from his first wife after an affair with his soon-to-be second wife, to criticize the Clintons' marriage remained unclear. |
| Meanwhile, Trump on Thursday claimed this week's debate was "a rigged deal," criticizing moderator Lester Holt for challenging "everything I said." |
| Trump's aids are reportedly urging him to prepare more in advance of the next debate, an Oct. 9 town hall event in St. Louis. |
| Why Trump would need to prepare after boasting that he won Monday's debate handily also remained unclear. |
| USA TODAY DIDN'T ENDORSE TRUMP!! BIASED MEDIA!!!1 (Not quite, actually) |
| Like all civilized newspapers, the team that writes USA TODAY's editorials doesn't conflate or coordinate with the rest of the newsroom. |
| So when USA TODAY offered a anti-endorsement of Trump yesterday, For the Record found out when everyone else did. (The editorial board won't even get lunch with us. Sad!) |
| Yes, 2016 forced USA TODAY's opinion team to take sides in a presidential race for the first time in the newspaper's history, describing Trump as a "serial liar" who is "erratic" and "traffics in prejudice." |
| The board still refuses to endorse Clinton, though: "By all means vote, just not for Donald Trump." |
| Mike Pence made a counterpoint in his own USA TODAY piece, describing Trump as the next Gipper: "Ronald Reagan spoke the truth in 1980 to the American people, just as Donald Trump has in 2016." |
| Around the campaign trail |
| • | Trump wanted unattractive women fired, golf club workers say (USA TODAY) | | • | Ohhhhh, so that's why Obama won't say "radical Islamic terrorist" (USA TODAY) | | • | Sad! Trump campaign takes a CNN contributor off its payroll (USA TODAY) | | • | Did Trump violate the Cuba trade embargo? Newsweek says yes (USA TODAY) | | • | Republicans tell you why they're with her in new Clinton ads (USA TODAY) | |
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| Political vitriol on the Internet: It's getting worse, experts say |
| If you think the presidential debates are getting less civilized, don't look in the comments section. In a piece titled "This article is biased. And your candidate stinks!," the Cincinnati Enquirer's Dan Horn explains how the immediacy of the Internet plus two hugely unlikable candidates have made 2016 so "nasty," as Trump would say. |
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