Donald Trump. (photo: AP)
By Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
fter
rattling many of his supporters by expressing tolerance toward
transgender people, the Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump
clarified on Friday that he still opposes women who were born women.
24 April 16
fter
rattling many of his supporters by expressing tolerance toward
transgender people, the Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump
clarified on Friday that he still opposes women who were born women.
“The media has, per usual, tried to blow my words out
of proportion,” Trump said on the Fox News Channel. “Just because I
happen to think transgender people deserve our understanding in no way
means that I feel that way about women who were born women.”
Trump said that any attempt to twist his words to
apply to “women in general” was deeply offensive to him. “I have made my
views about women very clear and to suggest that I have somehow changed
those views is really, really hurtful,” he said.
Across the nation, Trump supporters who had been
alarmed that the candidate had seemingly strayed into something
resembling empathy were greatly relieved by his clarification.
“When you start being respectful to one group it can
kind of be a slippery slope,” Trump supporter Harland Dorrinson said.
“I’m just glad he cleared it up, is all.”
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