US presidential candidate Donald Trump has joked that if he were a woman, he’d probably want to wear a burqa instead of having to worry about putting on make-up.
CNN says Trump was talking to a crowd in New Hampshire about America’s regular interventions in the Middle East when he launched into jokes about why women might want to cover themselves in public.
“I saw a woman interviewed. They said ‘We want to wear them, we’ve worn them for a thousand years. Why would anybody tell us not?’ They want to!” Trump said. “What the hell are we getting involved for?”
Trump went on, saying: “Fact is, it’s easy (to wear the burqa.) You don’t have to put on makeup, look how beautiful everyone looks,” he said, pointing to the laughing audience.
“Wouldn’t it be easier? Right? Wouldn’t that be easy? I’ll tell ya, if I was a woman I’d want to.”
