Trump says he wouldn't call himself a feminist
President Trump won’t call himself a feminist — but only because he wants everyone to do well.
“No, I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist,” Trump said during an interview for Great Britain’s ITV set to air Sunday. “I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I'm for women, I'm for men, I'm for everyone.”
Trump's critics have called him a misogynist since before he became President, especially after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape revealed him discussing grabbing women by the genitals in 2005.
Several women have also accused him of sexual misconduct, and many took to last week's Women's March as a rebuke to Trump.
But, speaking with interviewer Piers Morgan, Trump said he has “tremendous respect for women.”
“You see all of the women I have working around me and working with me,” Trump said in the interview, excerpts of which were release on the Daily Mail.
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Trump shored up his pro-female stance by arguing women supported him at the ballot box.
“You know, I won many categories of women and the women vote in the election, and people were shocked to see it,” Trump said in the interview. “I was running against a woman and I’m winning all of these categories. And I think I would do even better right now.”
Most white women without a college degree — 61% — voted for Trump in 2016, according to exit polls compiled by the Washington Post.
Trump, speaking with Morgan, argued women are benefiting from his administration’s policies.
“Women have the best unemployment numbers that they’ve had in 17 years,” he said during the ITV interview. “And they’re doing tremendously in business, they’re doing tremendously in so many ways. And people are starting to see that.”
Trump — that father of two daughters — said that carried over to his tough stance on border security, a strong military and law enforcement.
But an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last week found just 29% of female voters approved of the job Trump was doing. And 55% of women questioned the President’s mental stability.
