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."
Really, Donald?
thanks. I’ll see if I can find her online.
I was thinking about supporting Trump but now no way. He is just another liberal. Crap like this doesn’t come out of the Cruz campaign.
What is sad, that we even need to have bathroom laws in the first place.
Second it.
I wont attack Trump on allowing men in women’s bathrooms.
Just wondering how many freepers agree with Trump
Placemarker. I will come back later to read the excuses. Who has the brace yourselves meme? It normally says, “Brace yourselves, liberals are about to say obama didn’t say exactly what he said.”
Fine ... that's your right to do so.
but he needs to either think through these cultural issues or not speak out on them.
Why should he? YOU have absolutely no hold on him. He already has your vote; he couldn't care less what you think of him.
Politicians want exactly two things from us: our money and our votes. And most of us don't have enough money for that to matter, so it's down to the vote. A politician who is guaranteed your vote doesn't care what you think of him, or what body part you're holding when you vote. He already has all he wants.
how do you know ???
Glenn Beck is for same sex marriage...
Maybe he thinks he's being presidential?
His approach would be to put together a group and come up with a solution.
You really think he’s going to build that wall? What will you do when he doesn’t?
Why would you chance it? Once he is in office he’ll go back to being the guy that he is today. Its none of my business who people vote for but I would not vote for someone that has changed his mind more times in the first 4 months of 2016 than most people change in a life time.
I know many of you don’t like Ted Cruz but one thing is certain, once you get past all the lies that Trump has told on him, he is still the same consistent Conservative he has always been. Take another look at Ted Cruz and give him a chance. At least you know where he stands..
Yup.
Move right past it. Get back to the bigger issues.
This is just the press looking for a gotcha.
I really don’t buy it either but his “leave it as it is strategy” is a realization of business which is what he’s predisposed to think about. I don’t think for a minute as President he would have DOJ support any USSC case under review for making this bathroom sex-craziness a reality.
Regardless, I told you my fear. I also think that if Ted thought coming down on the homo side of this particular question would help him deny Trump the nomination even more, he’d do it without breaking a sweat.
You don’t have to buy it, like I don’t have to believe what you’re selling with this thread.
Stay, leave in a huff, keeping fighting the lost battle - whatever. The cards have been turned over and the Tarot God isn’t with Ted.
Sadly, I don’t see that happening.
But he's being listened to as a presidential candidate.
No. The perverts should use the toilet that a decent society tells them to use. If they want to be like animals, they can go home and use any toilet there that they want.
There have already been cases where men dress as women to harass women and More in the women’s bathroom
Likely to be a daily event now that he's the presumptive nominee.
There was, and may still be, a choice between a conservative with a record on issues Freepers care about, and an East Coast populist who's public pronouncements change from one day to the next.
What's to change Trump's mind on building the wall upon taking office?
As our current Veep might say, "this is a big #$%^&*( deal.
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