Trudeau, Trump Kick Off Meeting With Women In The Workplace Panel

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off Trudeau’s visit to the U.S. with a roundtable on women in the workforce, Monday, where both leaders expressed their desire to help female CEOs grow their businesses.

“Women, as you know, and I can say that from my past life, I had so many women executives, they were phenomenal, phenomenal, and really helped me, and it was really fantastic,” Trump said. “They play a tremendously important role, women in our economy.”

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, was present at the meeting, sitting right next to Trudeau, who thanked Trump briefly for welcoming him to America, but kept his remarks focused on the panel gathered at the table.

“I’m excited about launching this, sitting around the table with a number of successful executives who just happen to be women,” Trudeau said.

“Whenever I sit down with a woman executive, I know that she has had to overcome significant barriers that exist, and therefore is likely to have greater insight into helping up others, but also the formidable contributor to the success of the business and her economy,” he continued. “So, I think for me, it’s not just about doing the right thing, it’s about understanding that women in leadership positions is a very powerful leverage for success for business, for communities and for our entire economy.”

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  1. Trudeau: We need to do more to encourage respect for women both in and out the workplace.
    Drumpf: Before or after we grab them by the pussy?

    I’m sorry but I find Micturition Man being a part of any discussion about women and women’s issues to be nothing short of an episode of Theatre of the Absurd.

  2. “Whenever I sit down with a woman executive, I can think only about her tits.”

    @tiowally No two men, particularly trumpee and another should be talking about women’s issues without at least six or eight well informed women at the same table.

  3. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    Women, as you know, and I can say that from my past life, I had so many women executives, they were phenomenal, phenomenal, and really helped me, and it was really fantastic," Trump said. “They play a tremendously important role, women in our economy.”

    Trump then asked Trudeau if he’d like to grab Stephen Miller by his pussy.

  4. Is it OT to mention the shitstorm that is the trumpee’s National Security Council? The story’s at NYT.

    WASHINGTON — These are chaotic and anxious days inside the National Security Council, the traditional center of management for a president’s dealings with an uncertain world.

    Three weeks into the Trump administration, council staff members get up in the morning, read President Trump’s Twitter posts and struggle to make policy to fit them. Most are kept in the dark about what Mr. Trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. Some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues, after hearing that Mr. Trump’s top advisers are considering an “insider threat” program that could result in monitoring cellphones and emails for leaks.

  5. “Women, as you know, and I can say that from my past life, I had so many women executives, they were phenomenal, phenomenal, and really helped me, and it was really fantastic,” Trump said. “They play a tremendously important role, women in our economy.”

    Replace the word ‘women’ with ‘black,’ ‘LBGTQ,’ ‘Frederick Douglass’ or ‘the Hispanics.’ Trump is so socially awkward, his so-called “supportive” comments about anyone appear weird, insensitive or just plain awful.

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