Ex-Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell: More ugly than attractive women in U.S.

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said that Donald Trump might come to regret his comments about women’s looks because “there are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women.”

Rendell, 72, made the remark in an interview with the Washington Post published Wednesday while discussing the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s chances with voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where Rendell served as mayor from 1992 to 2000.

“Will he have some appeal to working-class Dems in Levittown or Bristol? Sure. For every one he’ll lose one and a half, two Republican women,” he said to the paper.

Then Rendell, a Hillary Clinton supporter, stepped into a controversy of his own while arguing that Trump’s comments about women’s looks — over the course of his career as a businessman and reality TV star — could disrupt his 2016 bid for the White House.

“Trump’s comments like, ‘You can’t be a 10 if you’re flat-chested,’ that’ll come back to haunt him,” he said. “There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women. People take that stuff personally.”

David Weigel, the author of the Washington Post article, defended Rendell after his quote went viral. He said that Rendell was just making a “funny point” by being “snarky.”

This is not the first time Rendell’s words have incited controversy.

In 2010, he lamented that the U.S. had become “a nation of wusses” after a Philadelphia Eagles game was postponed because of a blizzard. He named his first book “A Nation of Wusses” two years later.

Rendell, who served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 presidential campaign, could not immediately be reached for comment.