Posted on 06/29/2022 5:26:33 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Donald Trump has said that pregnancy is “wonderful" – unless you’re an employer.
In an October 2004 interview with NBC’s Dateline, Trump said pregnancy is “a wonderful thing for the woman, it’s a wonderful thing for the husband, it’s certainly an inconvenience for a business. And whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business.”
That interview, called “Blonde Ambition," highlighted then-Trump Golf Properties Executive Vice President and Apprentice boardroom mainstay Carolyn Kepcher and focused on all things Carolyn – her book, her career, and her advice for female executives. Trump, her boss at the time, was interviewed in that capacity.
Kepcher -- who Trump fondly called a “killer” in her book "Carolyn 101" and spoke about her intelligence and “cunning” at other points in the interview -- recalled to NBC in the Dateline interview that she waited until she was six months pregnant and showing before informing her boss.
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...in October of 2015, as a candidate, Trump told Fox Business’ Stuart Varney, “you have to be careful with” paid family leave because it could impact keeping “our country very competitive” but “certainly there are a lot of people discussing it.”
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“Nobody will be better to women and nobody will be better to women’s health issues — a big thing — than Donald Trump. That I can tell you. Nobody,” Trump swore. ...he did tick off several broad issue areas that he thinks helped him earn women voters in states like New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. "I won with women because, you know what? Women want to see a strong country. Women want to see a strong military. Women want to see strong borders.”
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That’s why companies will pay for abortions.
This is what you’re supposed to be faithful to.
An institution that wants your babies dead so you can work more.
Oh, and they’ll shitcan you at the drop of a hat for “business needs”.
Business needs is often code for a wage suppressing H1-B…
An 18 year old story.
Yet Tucker did a whole long segment on it a few nights ago. The reason big business is pro abortion is because pregnancy is an inconvenience.
We all have a change of mind. As long as it’s for the better. I believe Trump is sincere about his stance on abortion now.
It’s always been an inconvenience to employers...
Ask anyone old enough, many young and married women were asked flat out if they planned to become pregnant anytime soon in job interviews, because employers didn’t want to invest the money training them for them to have kids and quit.
This was pretty common practice before such questions were outlawed.
What's controversial about that statement? You want to work at the type of job where a half year absence (give or take) that wasn't coordinated in advance isn't inconvenient to the employer? Unless you work somewhere so big that you aren't noticed, or in a job so unskilled that pulling a replacement off the street in a short amount of time is easy, that's reality. If anything, it's recognition that women have value in the workplace.
why do you say ‘sadly’? Facts are not ‘sad’.
Trump installed the Supreme Court which overturned Roe v Wade.
That’s more than any other Republican had done since 1973.
Which is likely a yuge part of why the republicans have worked so hard to push Trump out of office
I know post abortive mothers who have changed their position on abortion
The media and the larger establishment thinks we’re stupid. But we do not care what Trump said from then until now.
Roe v Wade is overturned
Our country, as represented by the US constitution, no longer condones nor promotes abortion
By calling them an 'inconvenience' for something literally every country in the world offers? It's more like further evidence that employers view their workforce as something disposable rather than an asset. And then wonder why there is no loyalty from employees anymore.
Good grief, he didn’t call them an inconvenience, he said the pregnancy was an inconvenience. Big difference. The cost, the down time of that employee...
The only disposable employee to me, is one with a crap work ethic.
He’s stating a fact. So what. Having to stop at red lights is inconvenient too…that doesn’t mean it’s optional.
So is family leave when your uncles daughter
is out with the flu employees are misusing the time off putting staff at critical levels.
Yup. Earlier post of mine on this topic, so I don’t repeat myself:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4074226/posts?page=19#19
What’s the change of mind?
He said pregnancy is wonderful for the mother and father. I’m sure he felt that way then and that way now.
He said pregnancy is an inconvenience for business. I’m sure he felt that way then and feels that way now.
The problem is requiring business to pay women to not work while they are pregnant.
Thanks.
This was strictly from a businessman’s financial stand point. Yes, it is an inconvenience to hire someone and a year later, they either need 6 weeks off or they quit altogether.
It takes 2 weeks minimum just to get settled in to a new work place and know where everything is. It takes months to become a cog in a well working machine. It takes time processing all the paperwork for a new hire, setting up benefits, withholding, insurances, etc.
The word abortion is not in the article so Trump must not have talked about it in the interview, else the msm would have said so.
There’s also the health insurance legacy costs of adding an additional dependent to the employee’s coverage.
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