President Donald Trump provided a blunt response when asked to define what a woman is.
During a public event on Friday (March 28), a reporter asked Trump: “Mr. President… since Democrats seem to struggle with this question… what is a woman, and why is it important to understand the difference between men and women?”
Trump appeared eager to answer the question, which came shortly after he introduced Alina Habba as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
“It’s sort of easy for me to answer,” he began. “A woman is somebody who can have a baby under certain circumstances… A woman is also someone who’s much smarter than a man, I’ve always found.”
He continued, “A woman is a person who doesn’t give a man a chance of success, and in many cases, has been treated very badly.”
Trump then addressed the issue of men competing in women’s sports, calling it “ridiculous and very unfair to women and very demeaning to women. That’s got to be about a 94 percent issue.”
He added, “I watched Democrat congressmen fighting for the fact that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, and I said, ‘I hope they keep that going because they’ll never win an election.’”
“Women are incredible,” Trump concluded. “They do so much for our country. We love our women, and we’re going to take care of our women.”
Trump was asked to define a woman (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Last month, Trump signed an executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
Trump had previously declared, “The war on women’s sports is over,” adding, “My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes.”
Meanwhile, earlier this week, a second federal judge blocked Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military, deeming it *“plainly” discriminatory.
District Judge Benjamin Settle stated, “The government’s arguments are not persuasive, and it is not an especially close question on this record.”
He continued, “The government has… provided no evidence supporting the conclusion that military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any of the other touchstone phrases long used to exclude various groups from service have in fact been adversely impacted by open transgender service. The Court can only find that there is none.”
Trump signed an executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sport (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
This follows a ruling earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who blocked the order, stating that it violates the Equal Protection Clause by discriminating based on transgender status and sex.
Reyes described the ban as “soaked in animus,” adding, “Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”
“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have made sacrifices—some even risking their lives—to secure the very equal protection rights that the Military Ban seeks to deny them.”
