In his quest to maintain that 70 percent disapproval rating he enjoys among women, Donald Trump decided to share his contempt for them this week by suggesting that the best solution for sexual harassment in the workplace is for a woman to quit her job.

In other words, why condemn harassment, when you have job flexibility?

This is just the latest example of Trump's anachronistic mindset about things that actually matter - right in step with his views on race and human rights - and this time it started because he thinks Roger Ailes is a swell guy.

Trump was defending the allegedly smarmy and predatory Fox News titan Monday during an interview with USA Today, and when he was asked how his daughter should handle a boss like Ailes, this was his response:

"I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case," Trump said.

In this file photo, Roger Ailes is pictured at teh premiere for "Kingsman: The Secret Service" on Feb. 9, 2015 in New York City. Fox News and Ailes have reached a settlement in the sexual harrassment suit filed by Gretchen Carlson. (Dennis Van Tine/Geisler-Fotopres/DPA/Zuma Press)

So his advice to his daughter would be to leave the job she had worked to earn, while the predator stayed in place, comfortable with the knowledge that his irresistible manliness still rules the compound.

By Tuesday, the Trumps were in damage control mode, and as usual, butchered the apology. Eric Trump told CBS News that if his sister Ivanka were ever harassed, she would probably report it.

"But at the same time, I don't think she would allow herself to be subjected to that," he added.

And how would she manage this?

"Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman," he explained.

He didn't explain how the less powerful women - meaning, those not born to the blood of billionaires - might handle such a problem. Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News presenter whose sexual harassment suit exposed Ailes, tweeted this reaction to Eric Trump's inane analysis: "Sad in 2016 we're still victim blaming women. Trust me I'm strong."

And by Tuesday, his tone-deaf father still didn't recognize the hole he was in and kept digging.

"I'd want her to do what makes her happy," Trump said of his daughter.

After it was noted that some harassment victims don't have the happy options his daughter might have, he replied, "I think it depends on the individual. It also depends on what's available. There may be a better alternative, then there may not. If there's not a better alternative, then you stay. But it could be there's a better alternative where you're taken care of better. But some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile."

None of this would surprise readers of a May 14th piece in the New York Times that found Trump's experience with women to be filled with "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form. . . .and unsettling workplace conduct."

This is not exactly a Renaissance man. You can find a 1994 TV interview with ABC that even shows Trump hissing, "I think putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. If I come home and dinner's not ready, I go through the roof."

Sorry, he's taken, ladies.

Voters don't have to take it, however, because no 21st century president should be a leftover from the Mad Men era, or anyone who thinks that women's bodies are something to own, insult, objectify, or legislate.

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