--- title: Donald Trump: I 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' in Construction description: Donald Trump said on Monday that he "broke the glass ceiling" for women in the construction industry canonical: https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-07T12:30:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:26:02.351Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump: I 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' for Women in Construction og:description: “My relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women” og:url: https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66941519983e1bad/698896b40a4a22e9f89c9f8b/trump-glass-ceiling-women.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump: I 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' for Women in Construction twitter:description: “My relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66941519983e1bad/698896b40a4a22e9f89c9f8b/trump-glass-ceiling-women.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Says He 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' for Women in Construction  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 7, 2016 12:30 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport in Redding, Calif., June 3, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport in Redding, Calif., June 3, 2016.Rich Pedroncelli—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jun 7, 2016 12:30 PM UTC As Hillary Clinton became the [first woman to clinch a major party’s presidential nomination](http://time.com/4359288/hillary-clinton-democratic-nominee-woman/?xid=homepage)—eight years after she famously spoke of making “18 million cracks” in the “highest, hardest glass ceiling”—Donald Trump said Monday that he “broke the glass ceiling” for women in the construction industry. “Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry,” Trump said Monday in an [interview with Bill O’Reilly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIafpeRYtuk) on Fox News. “My relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women.” When Trump recorded the interview, the Associated Press had not yet announced that Clinton had reached the required number of delegates to obtain the nomination, the[ Washington _Post_ reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/06/trump-i-broke-the-glass-ceiling-on-behalf-of-women-in-construction-industry/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Says He 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' for Women in Construction","datePublished":"2016-06-07T12:30:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:26:02.351Z","description":"“My relationship, I think, is going to end up being very good with women”","url":"https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66941519983e1bad/698896b40a4a22e9f89c9f8b/trump-glass-ceiling-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt66941519983e1bad/698896b40a4a22e9f89c9f8b/trump-glass-ceiling-women.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Redding Municipal Airport in Redding, Calif., June 3, 2016.","creditText":"Rich Pedroncelli—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4359560/donald-trump-glass-ceiling-hillary-clinton/","name":"Donald Trump Says He 'Broke the Glass Ceiling' for Women in Construction"}}]}] ```