Ivanka Trump Update: Donald's Daughter Walks Out of Cosmopolitan Interview
Another day, another Trump lashout. Except this time, it wasn't the Donald.
On Tuesday, the Trump camp released a plan for new mothers and maternity leave. Naturally, the best person to talk about the policy was Trump's daughter, Ivanka--she's a mother herself, after all.
However, when an interviewer from Cosmo chatted with Ivanka over the phone to discuss the policy, things didn't quite go as planned.
First, the interviewer brought up how the plan fails to benefit men in same-sex partnerships, and that there's nothing about paternity leave. Ivanka insisted that the plan the Trump campaign put forward was to benefit mothers only. When the interviewer suggested that it might be because men don't need to recover from childbirth, Ivanka claimed that those were the interviewer's words, not her own -- even though that's exactly what she implied. Interesting.
Next, the interviewer asked about comments Donald made in 2004 in an NBC interview regarding how pregnancy is "an inconvenience for a business." 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."
So...citing an earlier interview where your father doesn't come off as feminist as you'd like is somehow "a lot of negativity"? OK, Ivanka.
Then, abruptly, Ivanka claimed she had to run, and that was that.
You know, as much as I'd like to think Ivanka was thrown into this politcal mess out of lack of choice, I'm starting to believe more and more that she truly believes in everything her father says. That's the scary part, to me.
