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Donald Trump wanted to replace 'ugly' staff with ' attractive' ones, lawsuit claims

Donald Trump wanted to replace 'ugly' staff with ' attractive' ones, lawsuit claims

US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has garnered negative media attention once again, after documents from 2012 have surfaced which suggest that he wanted to fire all “unattractive” staff.

According to CNN Politics, a lawsuit alleges that Trump pressured employees at the Trump National Golf Club, in California, USA, to replace all female workers that he perceived to be ugly and replace them with more attractive ones.

One former employee, Hayley Strozier, commented to CNN that she “had witnessed Donald Trump tell managers many times while he was visiting the club that restaurant hostesses were 'not pretty enough' and that they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women.”

This news emerges as Trump was accused by former Miss World Alicia Machado of calling her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping”.

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