--- ---  # Donald Trump Said That Pregnancy is an 'Inconvenience' to Business by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg May 27, 2016 2:49 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally on May 26, 2016 in Billings, Montana. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally on May 26, 2016 in Billings, Montana.Spencer Platt—Getty Images by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg May 27, 2016 2:49 PM UTC [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-2004-pregnancy-inconvenience-employers-n580366) has resurfaced a clip of a 2004 interview Donald Trump did with [NBC’s Dateline](http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/05/donald-trump-calls-pregnancy-an-inconvenience.html)—in which he refers to pregnancy as an “inconvenience.” The segment was about Carolyn Kepcher, then executive vice-president of Trump Golf properties. Kepcher says in the clip that she waited six months to tell Trump, her boss, that she was going to have a baby. > [](https://twitter.com/NBCNewsVideo/status/735927968602587141) “Maybe in my mind he might think this would perhaps be a setback,” Kepcher said. When asked about it, Trump did little to assuage his employee’s fears: “Pregnancy…it’s a wonderful thing for the woman, it’s a wonderful thing for the husband, it’s certainly an inconvenience for business. Whether people want to say that or not, the fact is it is an inconvenience for a person that is running a business.” Oof. Donald Trump: Pregnancy 'Inconvenient' to Business ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4350361/donald-trump-pregnancy-business/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4350361/donald-trump-pregnancy-business/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Said That Pregnancy is an 'Inconvenience' to Business","datePublished":"2016-05-27T14:49:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:36.221Z","description":"In a 2004 interview with NBC","url":"https://time.com/4350361/donald-trump-pregnancy-business/","keywords":["motto","politics","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df0b8f6c96a7788/69889557428a9eab4fcd2d3c/donald-trump-pregnancy-business.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessie Van Amburg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2df0b8f6c96a7788/69889557428a9eab4fcd2d3c/donald-trump-pregnancy-business.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Billings, Montana","caption":"Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Billings, Montana","creditText":"Spencer Platt—Getty Images","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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4350361/donald-trump-pregnancy-business/","name":"Donald Trump Said That Pregnancy is an 'Inconvenience' to Business"}}]}] ```