Posted on 04/21/2016 6:53:01 AM PDT by xzins
Republican Donald Trump says he'd be fine with Caitlyn Jenner using the bathroom of her choice at Trump Tower. (AP File Photo)
(CNSNews.com) - Republican Donald Trump, appearing on Thursday's "Today" show, said transgenders should be allowed to "use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate."
"So if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?" host Matt Lauer asked Trump.
"That is correct," Trump said.
Asked for his view on the North Carolina bathroom controversy, Trump said the state has "paid a big price" for requiring transgenders to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex.
"Leave it the way it is," he said.
"One of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday, saying 'Leave it the way it is right now.' There have been very few problems. Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they're going through with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife, and that's on both sides -- you leave it the way it is.
"There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife, and the -- the economic punishment that they're taking."
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Trump said he doesn't know if he has any transgender people working for him. "I probably do, I really don't know."
Trump noted that there's a "big move to create new bathrooms" for transgenders.
"First of all, I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is."
This is bad.
Spot on post!
seriously? your excuse is that your candidate is too stupid to know the subject at hand and this is the gay agenda trying to destroy America? you really want to explain it away by saying trump is too dumb to know what this means?
Cruz can only get the nomination by having it given to him by the establishment. Then Cruz will go down to a crushing defeat by Clinton. He has no chance in the world of beating her in a general election. He’s a one trick phony, very conservative voters. He can’t get a democrat or independent to vote for him if his life depended on it. Plus 50% of Trump voters would not vote for him after having their candidate ran out of the race. If the man with more delegates and votes going into the convention is denied that means one thing; the GOP would rather Clinton be president than take their chances with Trump. The party will also be fractured for years to come and I don’t think they care, as long as their fat-cat jobs remain intact.
Trump calls that his New York values.
Trump has already convinced many here that this is no longer a priority issue.
Cool. Let’s hear how plan to reverse Oberfell. Please list for me the Senators and Congress people will will take charge and lead on this. Lay out for me a political strategy that outlaws gay marriage. I’m going to predict that you will - again - not answer any of my very specific questions and just fall back on the intellectually dishinest tactic of “You’re a liberal”. I’d love for you to prove me wrong, but I don’t see it.
I guess we are talking past each other. We agree that men and women’s sexual nature is different, right?
I’m not seeing why Trump would alienate women by allowing a man who is attracted to women to use the women’s bathroom, as a private business decision. I mean, I’m a man, I think that would be wrong to do to women. Some women obviously don’t care that guys that might be into them are in there with them. Fine. But what about the women who do care, they should just get over it or what?
Freegards
This issue is a distraction. Like going after a fly when a tiger is about to pounce. This issue is not the hill to die on. Trump answered correctly and adroitly. This is now a non issue for Trump in the media's eyes and they can't demonize him over it.
After Trump was attacked by the left and the right over his abortion answer - I don't blame him for deflecting these social issues hot topics that don't generate jobs or keep illegal aliens out or prevent Islamic terrorism.
It is to me. It is an issue of Nature’s God.
Here’s some realism for you: Notwithstanding the damage wrought here by Trumpism of late, for sixteen years I’ve watched posters who say exactly what you’ve been saying in this exchange ride the lightning.
Like Trump, you’re a flash in the pan. Once people come to their senses in the face of Trump’s obvious liberalism, you’ll go the way of the rest of them.
Cruz will defeat Trump on the second ballot by building a coalition, NOT having something handed to him.
How can any conservative support the joke that is Trump given his liberal values?
This issue is not the hill to die on. Trump answered correctly and adroitly. This is now a non issue for Trump in the media’s eyes and they can’t demonize him over it.
After Trump was attacked by the left and the right over his abortion answer - I don’t blame him for deflecting these social issues hot topics that don’t generate jobs or keep illegal aliens out or prevent Islamic terrorism.
I agree. I’m not happy.
Again, I repeat: IGNORE IT. IT IS A LEGAL NULLITY.
Many used the opportunity to misconstrue the NY values comment. Seems only those outside of NY understood quite well what was meant. Liberal, progressive values of NY governing bodies and the majority of citizens who elect them.
Was it not anti federalist 78 -82 that addressed this?
Still dont agree with judicial review.
Congress could just pass a law that says a majority of the house can impeach a supreme court judege
>> Thank you Trump for avoiding this pitfall question
Trump's Super-Heromobile:
"(D-)on't (D-)ebate tonight - call chicken (D-)eelight"
Answer the question, coward:
Why was the demoralization of American culture (WHICH IS SELF-EVIDENT IN TRUMP'S "morality") a strategic objective for Yanukovych and Putin's fellow Oligarchic communist thugs?
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