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At a time as soon as a gender-blind parental leave arms race is sweeping America’s private sector, it’s a special sort of ironic that a man that just clinched the nomination of among our 2 significant parties on the supposed strength of his firm acumen thinks pregnancy is an “inconvenience” for companies.
On Thursday, NBC News reupped an October 2004 Dateline segment on Carolyn Kepcher, after that a best executive at Trump Golf Properties and Apprentice star. In an interview regarding Kepcher’s maternity leave, Trump expressed ambivalence regarding her decision. “Pregnancy is never—it’s a remarkable thing for the woman. It’s a remarkable thing for the husband. It’s definitely an inconvenience for a business,” Trump said. “And whether individuals wish to claim that or not, the truth is it is an inconvenience for a individual that is operating a business.”
The segment, pegged along with the Trump-esque title “Blonde Ambition,” finds Kepcher recalling her apprehension as soon as it came time to tell Trump regarding her pregnancy. “I thought, oh, if I tell your man I’m pregnant, he’s heading to believe ‘oh, this is heading to be a long nine months.’ So, If I tell your man at 6 months, it’s only—it will certainly be over in 3 months,” she recounts. “Maybe in my thoughts he may believe this would certainly perhaps be a setback or ‘maybe I’m heading to have actually to delivering someone in to change her throughout her pregnancy, or as soon as she takes a maternity leave.”
Kepcher just took 3 weeks of full-time maternity leave, after that “part-time after that,” she says in the clip. Asked if he believed his employee may have actually felt that she had to hurry spine or risk obtaining replaced, Trump said, “I don’t believe so. I believe she loves her job.” But, he said, the idea of Kepcher feeling pressured to reduce leave short is “an intriguing premise. Maybe she ought to feel that method a little bit. Yet the truth is that would certainly not have actually happened.”
Trump is notoriously repulsed by the idea of pregnancy and the women that contend along with its fruits. In its Thursday Dateline post, NBC called up a bizarre anecdote from earlier this year:
Ivanka, that gave birth on March 27, was spine on the campaign trail within 2 weeks, appearing along with her father at a rally in Bethpage, Brand-new York. “You know, she had a baby love 5 days ago,” Trump praised her throughout the rally, which was in fact held 10 days after Ivanka gave birth. “She did an excellent job. So I ought to not claim Ivanka, you’re fired, right? I promise.”
The Republican presidential nominee has actually additionally said that the office pumping of breast milk, a crucial technique for several Brand-new mothers, is “disgusting.”
