“I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids.”
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"Do you actually change diapers?" host Anthony Cumia asked Donald Trump on the Opie and Anthony show in November of 2005.
The 59-year-old businessman, whose wife Melania was pregnant with his fifth child and her first, responded bluntly: "No, I don't do that."
"There's a lot of women out there that demand that the husband act like the wife and you know there's a lot of husbands that listen to that," Trump added. "So you know, they go for it."
"If I had different type of wife," Trump said laughing, "I probably wouldn't have a baby, ya know, cause that's not my thing. I'm really like a great father but certain things you do and certain things you don't. It's just not for me."
The interview — one of many reviewed by BuzzFeed News — reveals a man with an extremely traditional view on the responsibilities a man and a woman have when raising a family. That view has already come under attack by an anti-Trump group, with one of his comments in a 2005 Howard Stern interview appearing in ad from the super PAC Our Principles.
"I mean, I won't do anything to take care of them. I'll supply funds and she'll take care of the kids. It's not like I'm gonna be walking the kids down Central Park," Trump said in the interview. He repeated the same sentiment to Stern two years laters, saying, "Melania is a wonderful mother. She takes care of the baby and I pay all of the costs."
Trump's five children — Ivanka, Eric, Donald, Tiffany, and Barron — have been a highly visible part of his presidential bid and have all publicly praised their father as a parent. But Trump himself has described himself as hands off, and, in the same 2005 interview with Howard Stern, expressed disdain for his ex-wife Marla Maples for suggesting he walk their daughter, Tiffany, down the street.
"Well, Marla used to say, 'I can't believe you're not walking Tiffany down the street,' you know in a carriage," Trump said. "Right, I'm gonna be walking down Fifth Avenue with a baby in a carriage. It just didn't work."
Trump added of his current wife, Melania: "She would take great care of the child without me having to do very much."
And in 2007, again in an interview with Stern, Trump, asked if he stays home with his infant son Barron, admitted that hands-on parenting has never been his "thing."
"It probably should but it never has," replied Trump.
Here is Trump in his own words:
Trump in April of 2005 said on the Howard Stern Show that he would simply supply the funds and wouldn't do anything to care for his children.
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