Many questioned, many feel
Ivanka Trump has a secret nickname among White House staffers.
White House aides reportedly refer to Ivanka Trump as “princess royal” behind her back, and it’s definitely not meant to be a compliment.
The president’s daughter apparently gained the nickname after the G-20 summit, during which at one point she sat in for her father, Vanity Fair reports.
Ivanka Trump has little to no political experience and was not elected to office, so many questioned what qualifications she had to act on the president’s behalf in such a formal, international setting.
Note the distancing move of “many questioned.” Obviously she has absolutely no qualifications to substitute for the president. Of course neither does he, but unfortunately he got elected anyway.
Note also the wholly unnecessary “little to no political experience” when we all know she has absolutely none of any kind. She markets overpriced clothes and trinkets. That’s not political experience.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are both advisers to the president. Their roles in the White House have been heavily scrutinized since Day One. Many feel that Trump and Kushner are both exceptionally unqualified and that their presence is a direct product of nepotism.
There it is again – “many feel” – don’t be silly, of course they’re exceptionally unqualified and there only because Daddy put them there.
According to Vanity Fair, Washington insiders have had just about enough of Trump and Kushner. As one unnamed political veteran told the magazine, “What is off-putting about them is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance. They think they are special.”
Just like Daddy.
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Ivanka sitting in for Donald at the G20 was so stunningly inappropriate that it doesn’t just raise eyebrows, it makes you immediately picture those present exchanging furtive looks to check that other people were seeing the same thing, and wondering whether to say something, and then shrugging to each other as if to say “yes, I’m seeing it too, but pointing it out can only make this worse”, and collectively deciding to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is happening. I keep thinking of the Kruschev’s “shoe incident” — it must have felt a lot like this to the people witnessing it first hand.
It’s one of those times when “many feel” really sticks out as the weaksauce weasel wording it is. Unfortunately, it’s also one of those times “many feel” is also the most factually correct description. It’s not “everyone”, because not every person in the world was interested in and aware of the G20 and it’s attendees, and, of course, there are the delusional few, whether in the Trump administration or the general public, to whom he can do no wrong and Ivanka taking the president’s seat was totally fine. It’s not “some” because if you both know and care about such things, the level self-delusion necessary to be ok with it strains credulity in its own right…
Anna Y: It should be replaced with, “It is plainly self-evident that…”. This would bypass both the weaseliness, and would make it clear that if someone can’t see it, it’s their fault.
It is actually an interesting inversion. According to Wikipedia[0][1], weasel words are most often used to try and give the appearance of more authority/certainty to a claim than really exists. They’re used to try and make a contentious claim sound less so.
However, here, the weasel wording is used to make a claim, for which ample evidence exists, sound less certain and less authoritative.
Ah, such is the desire not to be seen to be taking jabs at the ego of a petty, capricious, vengeful tyrant. Yet, this reporter has heard it be claimed, on occasion, by dullards with no taste, that the Emperor is less than fully clothed!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions
Trump and crew (Ivanka included) are preparing us for what AI is like. It will appear to be intelligent, but not really. Like when you let your teenager drive the first time. You don’t have to tell him not to stop breathing or crap all over the seat.
Trump and crew are like political sociopaths incapable of knowing anything they do is wrong or unjustified.
“Many feel” Ivanka and Jared owe their positions to nepotism. Many feel that way? Is there anyone who thinks it’s a coincidence that the president’s inexperienced daughter and son-in-law have these positions?!
In addition to the lack of qualification, Ivanka and Jared are terrible colleagues. It’s an open secret that they leak regularly to the press, usually to declare that they advised Daddy not to do whatever he’s being criticized for now, it was those other advisors who talked him into it! Not that I have much sympathy for anyone who chooses to work for the Trump Administration, but that kind of backstabbing doesn’t help matters.
“It’s an open secret that they leak regularly to the press, usually to declare that they advised Daddy not to do whatever he’s being criticized for now, it was those other advisors who talked him into it!”
A lot of what Daddy has been criticized for was entirely Trump’s own doing. His own instincts and inclinations are what they’re advising against. If they weren’t family, they might already have been fired. They certainly haven’t been very effective as a moderating influence. If they were among those who pushed him to condemn the Nazis specifically, then they were also among those he demoralized and disappointed by the press conference where he repudiated the statement prepared for him and reiterated his bothside-ism. That was the True, unscripted, unrestrained Trump. So was his pardon of “Sherrif Joe.” They aren’t fighting “evil advisors” they’re fighting Trump’s very nature. He’s not going to change.
Maybe Ivanka and Jared are playing to the wider audience beyond the White House, for their own gain, their own reasons. I can’t imagine the feuding that will ensue amongst the Trump offspring once Daddy kicks it. They are all such shallow, horrible greedy people. It’ll make vultures around a carcass look like a formal dinner by comparison.
They might be tryimg to communicate with Trump in his own language. He’s forever referring to ‘many people’, lots of people’, ‘so very many people’. Admittedly, he tends to invoke the nameless masses whenever he doesn’t want to admit that what the ‘many people’ are thinking is actually something he just pulled out of his arse, but he’s just stupid enough to think he’s the only person who knows this trick and that anybody else referring to numerous actors really do mean numerous actors, so it’s worth a try.
Not that he cares what the nine billion people who aren’t Donald Trump think.