He said “leave North Carolina as it is” meaning it’s a states rights issue.
What this is known as an incendiary issue planted as a landmine for Trump to step on. He knew what it was and played along with it to once again dominate the news cycle as he always does. But he slipped in the bit to leave NC alone after he set off his own bomb back at Matt Lauer.
That’s how Trump operates. He likes to keep them guessing. The news media is comprised of some of the worst lying scumbags on Earth and they deserve to have the hand grenade thrown back at them.
Now the a-holes in the media will be shrieking about Trump said this and that for the next 72 hours trying to explain what Trump means when he says Jenner can use the women’s restroom in Trump Towers but hands off on North Carolina’s bathroom law. He dominates the newsrooms on an issue that pales in significance to 20 trillion is debt, ISIS, lax immigration, etc.
Trump knows how to handle the media. The lemmings that march off the cliff with Cruz were never going to vote for him anyways. Trump supporters are not going to be swayed by bathrooms, they are going to fight that issue bathroom by bathroom until the Cultural Marxists who are the ones that are really behind this garbage give up. Once Trump is in the Oval Office, the Cultural Marxists will be annihilated by the supporters of President Trump and he’s not going to lift a finger to stop the annihilation.
Bathroom politics are going to be ongoing at the state level and in courts. It is not a federal issue and Trump knows that. But federal courts will try and dictate it’s a civil rights issue. Good, that will bring on a reform of the bastards in the federal court system. That’s where the real fight is.
He fairly obviously meant leave it as it was before the state legislature acted to shut down a city pro-transgender ordinance.