Trump Calls Himself ‘Father of IVF,’ Thanks to Guidance of a ‘Fantastically Attractive’ Woman
Trump wants us to believe that Sen Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is an expert on IVF and, within two magical minutes, she made him an expert, too
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump sat for a Georgia-based town hall focused on women’s issues and hosted by Fox News. The event, which comes as Trump continues to fancy himself the great “protector” of women, went about as normally as every other time the former president has tried to speak to or about women.
Asked about IVF, which has faced significant threats from Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion leaders this year, Trump sprung to action. “I want to talk about IVF,” he said. “I’m the father of IVF, so I want to hear this question.” I cannot stress enough that he could and should have phrased his enthusiastic, faux support for IVF pretty much any other way. But alas!
Mr. IVF Daddy then assured us we should trust that he supports the reproductive health service, because, as he put it, he recently talked to a beautiful woman about the matter: “I got a call from Katie Britt, a young… just a fantastically attractive person from Alabama. She’s a senator.” Britt is, indeed, a U.S. senator representing Alabama, whose looks don’t really have anything to do with that. I don’t know what Trump expects us to take away from his appraisal, but my read is that he’s saying he wouldn’t have spoken to or listened to her if she weren’t “young” and “fantastically attractive.”
“[Britt] said, ‘I was attacked. In a certain way I was attacked.’ I said, ‘Explain IVF very quickly.’ And within about two minutes, I understood it,” Trump continued. “I said, ‘No, no. We’re totally in favor of IVF.’ I came out with a statement within an hour. A really powerful statement, and we went totally in favor. The Republican Party, the whole party.”
The way he characterizes his supposed epiphany on IVF.
“I got a call from Katie Britt. She’s this young, fantastically attractive woman from Alabama…”