Despite his win against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump has a 40-year track record of taking on women and losing. Trump’s feelings about women were well known before the Access Hollywood tapes were ever leaked to the press. Whether it’s his many statements to Howard Stern over the years, his comments about women being criminally prosecuted for having abortions, or his taunts about how women look and the fact that they menstruate (shocker!), Trump has decades of disdain for women’s lives. On a day when Trump ridiculed a female reporter, eliciting laughs from the crowd of men behind him, let’s revisit the women who stood up to Trump.
15. Barbara Res
Trump and his admirers frequently cite Barbara Res as an example of his lack of sexism. Trump hired Res in the 1980’s when women were rarely at the forefront of the construction industry. But Res did not support Donald Trump for president. She described him as a “supreme sexist.” She said he detailed his philosophy of women in the workplace as “women had to work harder and be smarter and were willing to work harder than men.