Trump’s Treatment Of Women: Former Staffer Tells All
A former employee who worked for Donald Trump for over 10 years spoke out against Trump’s treatment of women, who have to “prove themselves” in ways that men do not. In a Rolling Stone interview, Barbara Res – a former Trump staffer, who worked for the billionaire for 18 years – discusses Trump’s treatment of women, the way he talks to his employees, and the culture he tends to promote as an employer.
Barbara Res worked for Donald Trump for over 10 years, during which time she served as vice president, senior vice president, and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s primary business entity. According to the Rolling Stone, Donald Trump often holds up Barbara Res as an example that he’s not sexist, that he supports women in business.
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Res says that isn’t true. In a tell-all interview released today, Barbara Res goes on the record about Donald Trump’s treatment of women, citing specific examples she witnessed during the decade she worked for the New York billionaire. In one case, she recalls an important business deal involving a woman Donald Trump considered particularly ugly.
“There was a very, very important woman on the side of the group that was opposing us, and Donald had to have lunch with her. He said she was very, very ugly and he didn’t want to be seen sitting alone with her,” said Barbara Res in her Rolling Stone interview today.
Res went on to discuss the way that Trump treated his employees, both men and women. She mentions that as far as Trump was concerned women needed to prove themselves in ways that men didn’t, but men didn’t escape Trump’s criticism. Res claims Trump was hard on men and women for their personal appearances.
“He used to criticize men and women, he was very tough on fat people,” said Res during her interview with Rolling Stone. “There was one guy who worked for the city who [Trump] referred to as ‘the fat fuck’ not by his name,” Res recalls.
There was also a lawyer the Trump Organization who worked with Trump on several occasions, who Barbara Res claims Trump ridiculed for his weight, poking fun at him for liking snickers. Res said that at one point in her employment she gained a little extra weight and Trump commented on her weight on a few occasions. Nobody, Res says, would stand up to Trump when he would bully them.
“There is nothing to be gained from that, standing up to him on other things maybe, but not that,” said Barbara Res, a former Trump staffer who worked for the Republican frontrunner for over 10 years.
Barbara Res goes on to describe how Trump related to his employees, that he wasn’t so much a bully as he was a loudmouth who frequently made off-color remarks, and said things that might not be appropriate in other workplaces. And for her part, Res said that she doesn’t think Trump paid her any less because she was a woman, but she does speculate that he likely paid her less because she wasn’t a lawyer – apparently Trump ‘had a thing’ for lawyers.
“I don’t think I was [paid as much as men], but I don’t know if it was a female thing. Donald had a thing about lawyers, see, everybody else was a lawyer, practically, that worked for him except for me and the sales people,” said Res in her Rolling Stone interview.
Res went on to praise Trump for some of his views, despite stating that Trump routinely stated that “men are better than women” with a single caveat “a good woman is better than ten men.” Res said she’s not sure if the remark is sexist.
“Maybe it’s a sexist belief, that women have to prove themselves and men don’t, so women have to work harder,” said Barbara Res, former executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
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