Interesting observation:
Trump would also provide six weeks of paid maternity leave (fathers apparently don’t need time with their kids) [...]
But it really does make sense. This is how Donald Trump views fatherhood:
“I mean, I won’t do anything to take care of [my children]. 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 a 2005 interview with Howard Stern. “Marla used to say, ‘I can’t believe you’re not walking Tiffany down the street,’ you know in a carriage. Right, I’m gonna be walking down Fifth Avenue with a baby in a carriage. It just didn’t work.”
Or how about this, on changing diapers:
“No, I don’t do that,” Trump said on the Opie and Anthony show in 2005. “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… I’m really like a great father but certain things you do and certain things you don’t. It’s just not for me.”
So yeah, of course Trump doesn’t see a role for fathers in caring for newborns, because he himself couldn’t give two shits about raising his kids, other than writing checks. It’s just one more example of how Trump’s asshole personality bleeds into how he’d “govern” if elected.