Turns Out Ivanka Trump Doesn't Like to Answer Hard Questions
Feet held to the fire, Ivanka Trump lost her cool in an interview this week.
On Wednesday, Cosmopolitan.com pressed her to address her father’s egregious remarks about pregnancies and working women and pushed her to explain why the presidential candidate’s recently unveiled child care plan hadn’t accounted for paternity leave or leave for same-sex couples.
“I think you have a lot of negativity in these questions,” Trump countered. She ended her conversation with interviewer Prachi Gupta a few minutes later.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump reiterated his intention to make child care a tax-deductible expense for men and women who earn up to $250,000 each year and added that expectant mothers would be entitled to six weeks of paid family leave. During that speech, Ivanka stood by his side. But when it came time for her to speak up, it seems she was less prepared.
Given her heavy influence on her father’s team and her stated commitment to working mothers, Cosmopolitan.com wanted to know how she squared his newly declared ideals with his previous assertion that an expectant mother is an “inconvenience for a business.”
Faced with the 2004 statement, Ivanka fired back. “I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues,” she said. “So I don’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you’re going to make a comment like that.”
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And when Gupta refused to back down, Trump fumed: “Well, you said he made those comments. I don’t know that he said those comments.” Gupta cited her source, at which point Trump seemed to claim her words would be manipulated. “[T]here’s plenty of time for you to editorialize around this,” she retorted.
Cosmopolitan.com published a full transcript of the interview, which includes Trump’s attempt to explain why only women “in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth” are accommodated under Donald Trump’s policies.
“I’m going to jump off, I have to run,” Ivanka Trump said, cutting the interview short. “I apologize.”
Ivanka Trump thought she was getting a softball Cosmo interview.
Ivanka Trump was wrong. https://t.co/b0xfcGFjGL pic.twitter.com/NSC41BGzSb
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