A woman who was hired by Donald Trump in the 1980s as the chief engineer on Trump towers has said she ‘certainly would not vote for him for president’.

Barbara Res, who has been mentioned in Republican presidential candidate Trump’s speeches as an example of ‘how great he’s going to be for women’, said that Trump is ‘not who want to be president of the United States’.

She called his policies, specifically mentioning him ‘banning Muslims’ and opposing the Affordable Care Act, ‘abhorrent’.

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Barbara Res (pictured left Recently and right at her graduation) was hired by Donald Trump in the 1980s as the chief engineer on Trump towers. He often mentions her in speeches as an example of ‘how great he’s going to be for women’, Res says

Res worked for Trump for approximately 18 years. She and Trump had a falling out after she wrote a book about about her time as an employee of the real estate mogul

‘As far as being qualified, in my own opinion of him, I don't think he has the temperament to be president,’ she told BBC. ‘I think he's very impatient. I don't think he takes advice from people.

‘I'm not sure that he'll surround himself with the best people. I think he may surround himself with people that follow his ideologies and I think that would be a bad thing.

‘I certainly don't think Donald, with the way he carries on, and he's "kicking A" and "beating the S out of people"...

‘That's not presidential. That's a hooligan. That's a bully from the neighborhood. That's not who you want to be president of the United States.'

Res said that though she doesn’t have ‘an ax to grind against him’, she does not support his campaign.

‘I’m not in favor of his candidacy,’ she told BBC. ‘I certainly would not vote for him as president.’

Though Trump often references Res in speeches, she said that she is never mentioned by name and that he never asked for her permission to bring up her story.

'He didn't call me and worse than that he never gave my name,’ she said.

Res, pictured here while on a construction site in earlier years, said that though she doesn't have an 'ax to grind' with Trum', he's ‘not who want to be president of the United States’

Res, pictured above right in earlier years, called many of Trump's suggested policies 'abhorrent' and said he's 'not who you want to be president'

Res said in a World Service documentary, Donald Trump: The People's Billionaire, that she and Trump had a falling out after she wrote a book about about her time as an employee of the real estate mogul.

She said that before the book, they had ‘a good relationship’ and that he was ‘a smart guy’.

She had been hired by Trump in September of 1980 - a time when female executives in the construction business were few and far between - to be in charge of building the 68-story Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York.

Trump put his faith in her and told her he wanted her to 'treat everything as if it were my project and my money and I would be his final word’, Res has said.

Res worked for Trump for approximately 18 years, from 1978 to 1996, she said in an op-ed in the New York Daily News.

She started out as an employee with the company that built the Hyatt Hotel. She then moved into the position of vice president in charge of construction of Trump Tower. Eventually she became the executive vice president in charge of development and finally as a consultant.