The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Romper’s request for comment.
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Ivanka again defended her father’s childcare plan.
“Well, you said he made those comments”, the younger Trump insisted.
Ivanka then accused the reporter of putting “a lot of negativity” in to her questions after Gupta cited a 2004 NBC interview during which Trump said pregnancy is “inconvenient” for employers and called Trump’s plan “surprising”. “To imply otherwise is an unfair characterization of his track record and his support of professional women”.
Gupta pressed Trump on the issue, asking, “I just want to be clear that, for same-sex adoption, where the two parents are both men, they would not be receiving special leave for that because they don’t need to recover or anything?”
Trump’s detailed proposals marks his latest effort to fix his relationship with women voters, many of whom have come to know Trump as the candidate who suggested Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked him tough questions because she was menstruating and who insinuated his GOP rival Carly Fiorina was too ugly to be elected, the CNN said.
Gupta apologized for Trump’s perception that the questions were “negative”, but asserted they are “relevant” given the topic of their discussion. “I don’t know that he said those comments”.
Trump’s plan is, at most, a tiny Band-Aid to address a big, real, systemic problem. Those are your words. His plan, which he says would be paid for by eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program, would be limited to mothers.
Trump rolled out his maternity leave and childcare plan this week.
Ivanka replied that she wasn’t aware of the interview.
Donald Trump is taking an entire chapter from Hillary Clinton’s “I’m in it for the kids” playbook. It will blow the debt, and when he says the mandate, he’s going to mandate from Washington, isn’t that the one thing that Republicans all agree upon of the government stepping in and telling private industry what to do?
Around 12:30 p.m. ET, Cosmopolitan’s link to the story appeared to be down and gave a 404 error.
Ivanka said her father’s plan guarantees new moms six weeks of paid maternity leave by amending the existing unemployment insurance that companies are required to carry. But The Huffington Post found hotels and casinos run by subsidiaries of the Trump Organization offer no paid family leave, but rather adhere to federal law that requires only businesses allow women to take sick leave and vacation. For instance, in allotting six weeks of maternity care, Trump completely neglects half of all parents: fathers. Despite Trump’s claim that Clinton did not have a child care policy of her own and “never will”, the Democratic nominee released her plan over a year ago. But she does him one better by also proposing to raise the pay of child care workers, a change aimed at improving the quality of care.
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In an interview published Wednesday with the women’s magazine Cosmopolitan, Ivanka Trump implied gay men would be excluded from the plan as she touted its extension of benefits to women everywhere, including those in same-sex marriages.
