"I think I knob-touched Donald Trump.”
It's 2001, and punk rocker-turned- superstar DJ Moby is at a party in a building on New York’s Park Avenue with two close friends, Lee and Clarice. In attendance too is Donald Trump, the New York real estate developer who would go on to become the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
At some point in the evening, according to his recollection in his 2019 memoir Then It Fell Apart, Moby's friend Lee decided that now would be a good time to tell his famous friend about a 'game' that he and his friends used to play in college. This 'game', in reality, could more accurately be described as 'sexual assault', given that it involved young men daring one another to rub their penis against people "indiscriminately", as Moby recalled in a 2019 interview with US talk show host Bill Maher, with the 'winner' being the individual who brushed against the most people.
