Ivanka Trump, executive and daughter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, got defensive over her fatherβs past comments about pregnancy during an interview with Cosmopolitan on Wednesday.
After Donald Trump unveiled a proposed child care and maternity policy this week, Cosmoβs Prachi Gupta asked Ivanka about comments her father made in 2004, when he said pregnancy is βcertainly an inconvenience for a business.β
βWhether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business,β Donald Trump told βDateline NBCβ then.
Ivanka Trump wouldnβt acknowledge that her father had made that statement.
βWell, you said he made those comments,β she told Cosmo. βI donβt know that he said those comments.β
Ivanka also accused Gupta of editorializing and having βa lot of negativityβ in her questions. She ended the interview soon after, saying: βIβm going to jump off, I have to run. I apologize.β
Throughout the interview, Ivanka touted her fatherβs plan as a good option, saying there are βno proposals on the tableβ from anyone else when it comes to child care.
She dodged talking about the fact that Donald Trumpβs plan omits proposals for paternity leave or paid leave for adoptive parents, particularly same-sex couples. She argued the βoriginal intention of the plan is to help mothers in recovery in the immediate aftermath of childbirth.β
Ivanka Trump has spent the week talking up her fatherβs plan, at one point claiming that the Trump Organization provided all of its thousands of employees with paid maternity leave. The Huffington Post confirmed thatβs not true.
UPDATE: 7:35 p.m. β Ivanka weighed in on the Cosmo interview in a series of tweets Thursday afternoon.
Editorβs note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims β 1.6 billion members of an entire religion β from entering the U.S.