Trump criticized the interviewer for having “a lot of negativity” in her questions. She is considered the force behind the new policy; she helped introduce it alongside her father this week and is publicizing it.
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Next, the interviewer asked about comments Donald made in 2004 in an NBC interview regarding how pregnancy is “an inconvenience for a business”. It’s surprising to see this policy from him today. “Can you talk a little about those comments, and perhaps what has changed?” Ivanka then commented on how there’s “a lot of negativity in these questions” and that she “doesn’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with [the interviewer] on this if [she] is going to make a comment like that”.
Ivanka Trump argued that the questions were painting an unfair picture of his track record as well as his support of professional women. “T$3 here’s plenty of time for you to editorialize around this”, she retorted.
“Well, you said he made those comments. I don’t know that he said those comments”.
“Politics aside, I’m working to raise awareness on issues that are of critical importance to American women and families”, Trump tweeted. It makes no mention of paternity leave for the father or anything for another mother in the case of a same-sex couple, and it also doesn’t provide anything for parents who choose to adopt a child. Ivanka Trump explained that all would be revealed in her father’s tax-reform plan, and assured Gupta the plan “is budget-neutral”.
Ms. Gupta replied, “So 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?”
Ivanka Trump wants to have it both ways. Those are your words. The plan, right now, is focusing on mothers, whether they be in same-sex marriages or not. She went on to say that even in lesbian couples, the child-bearing mother would be eligible for the policy.
Soon thereafter, Ivanka cut the Cosmo interview short.
She went on to say that her father is a “great advocate” of women in the workforce.
Around 12:30 p.m. ET, Cosmopolitan’s link to the story appeared to be down and gave a 404 error.
In other insane things coming out of Trump’s children’s mouths, Ivanka Trump gave an interview to Cosmopolitan and, as NY magazine’s Rebecca Traister puts it, “revealed herself as just as defensive and dishonest as her father”.
Trump told reporters and Good Morning America the Trump Organization offers employees eight weeks of paid leave.
In other batshit craziness from the right, a caller to a right-wing talk show run by an alleged “Christian” named Bryan Fischer asked, apparently with a straight face, if it was possible a “demon” had “latched onto” Hillary Clinton because she shows “the same type of behavior” that is “documented” when “a person is possessed”.
In case you’re wondering, Hillary Clinton does have a maternity leave plan as well.
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When women’s mag Cosmopolitan met with Chelsea Clinton in February, they gave her the kid-glove treatment, asking whether she’d live in the White House if her mother wins and whether she had “fun moments” to share.
