What is a woman? Donald Trump gives ‘easy’ answers to reporter’s congratulatory, loaded question
What is a woman?
President Donald Trump offered four “easy” answers Friday to a reporter’s loaded question — prefaced with profuse thanks to Trump’s policies — as counselor to the president, Alina Habba, was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
“Thank you so much for women for, first of all, keeping men out of women’s sports,” the male reporter told Trump.
“That was an easy one,” the president responded to the “question.”
The reporter’s praise continued.
“You’ve platformed so many great women, like your chief of staff, Susie Wiles. You also have Karoline Leavitt doing a great job as press secretary. Now Alina will be joining as well,” he said.
The reporter then got to the actual question.
“Since Democrats seem to struggle answering this question, I want to ask you, what is a woman? And why is it important that we understand the difference between men and women?”
Trump gave four answers.
“Well, it’s sort of easy to answer for me because a woman is someone that can have a baby under certain circumstances,” the president said.
“A woman is a person who is much smarter than a man, I’ve always found,” Trump said to laughter.
“A woman is a person that doesn’t give a man even a chance of success,” he continued.
The president’s most serious answer came when he alluded to the issue of transgender women in sports and his executive order banning federal funding for public schools who allow trans women to compete with biological women.
“And a woman’s a person that, in many cases, has been treated badly,” Trump said, “because I think that what happens with this crazy, this crazy issue of men being able to play women’s sports is just ridiculous and very unfair to women and very demeaning to women.”
Last month, Alabama answered the question when Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill defining sex as being determined at birth.
“If the Good Lord made you a boy, you’re a boy. And if He made you a girl, you’re a girl,” Ivey said in a press release. “In Alabama, we believe there are two genders: Male and female. There is nothing complicated or controversial about it.
“Today, I was proud to officially answer the question ‘What is a Woman?’ with my signature on Senate Bill 79. It did not take a biologist to figure it out.”
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