This is ridiculous and embarrassing. They all pretend it isn’t, but of course it is. Ivanka Trump sitting at the heads of state table at the G20 is ridiculous and embarrassing.
The first daughter was spotted slipping into Trump’s seat at a working session on “Partnership with Africa, Migration and Health,” putting her shoulder to shoulder with British Prime Minister Theresa May. Russian President Vladimir Putin was sitting one seat down.
This is an ex-model turned fashion marketer. Period. That’s her CV; she has no relevant experience or education or training whatsoever. It was nepotism that Robert Kennedy was his brother’s Attorney General, but at least he was an actual lawyer with government experience. Ivanka Trump is someone who sells dresses and shoes. She shouldn’t be there. She shouldn’t be in the administration, she shouldn’t be part of the US delegation, she most certainly should not be sitting at the table.
President's daughter filling in at this AM's #G20 – sitting next to Chinese President Xi (Photo/@LanaLukash) pic.twitter.com/kzl8eahobG
— West Wing Report (@WestWingReport) July 8, 2017
Trump’s presence at the high-level table was somewhat unusual, given that government ministers or senior officials are typically the ones called to stand in for heads of state at such sessions. But she is both the president’s daughter and an unpaid “assistant to the president” who focuses on issues of women’s empowerment and workplace development, and she maintains broad influence in the administration.
Yes, she’s the president’s daughter and an unpaid “assistant to the president” and that’s why she should be nowhere near this event.
It isn’t the first time Ivanka Trump has participated in high-level meetings at the summit. On Thursday night, she and her husband, Jared Kushner, another Trump adviser, joined the president at a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Kushner also participated in Trump’s bilateral meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday.
All bad. They’re both relatives, so should have been excluded from the outset. They’re both wholly unqualified, so should have been excluded from the outset. They both have massive conflicts of interest, so should have been excluded from the outset.
Earlier on Saturday, Ivanka Trump and her father participated in a World Bank session on women’s entrepreneurship, an issue that she has been particularly focused on.
She can be focused on it all she likes; that still doesn’t make her qualified to meddle in it at this level. She’s a former model who markets clothing.
Ivanka Trump has taken up a slate of issues since taking a role in the West Wing, including workforce training, paid family leave and women’s economic empowerment.
Stop it. That doesn’t mean anything. That just normalizes this grotesque farce. “Taking up” a slate of issues means nothing; she’s not qualified to have a role in the executive branch. She’s Trump’s pretty daughter; that’s not a qualification.
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16 responses to “Next up: Trump’s youngest grandchild fills in for him”
I’m thankful every day, that I’m not foraging for food, at the top of a dump heap, after an 18 hour day of building Vanka Boots. I thought I’d read that she and her husband were ‘paid assistants’. No matter, ’cause grifters.
PS…I link to you sometimes, and we all love what you do. Thanks.
LJS.
But we can all see what’s coming. All these meetings, all this “sitting in for,” and all these introductions.
In very short order this will all be sold to us as “Ivanka’s experience.”
“Youngest grandchild?” Am I missing a metaphor or reference?
I just meant that next we’ll be told that one of Ivanka’s kids (or Junior’s or Eric’s) sat in.
If wholly unqualified Ivanka can, why not the next generation?
On the other hand, neither does Donnie.
(Not that that excuses anything.)
Well it’s not as if I’ve been lax in pointing that out.
I hesitate to assign any strategic thinking to that master of morons, but could this have been intended to humiliate those present?
I don’t think so, because that would involve recognizing that it’s insulting to pretend Ivanka Trump is the equivalent of the people around the table.
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I don’t think so either. It’s insulting rather than humiliating, humiliation would imply some kind of superiority. Most of the G20 leaders would probably regard the Trump clan as a bunch of vulgar barbarians who, inexplicably, have managed to capture the citadel.
In former administrations, First Ladies have “taken up” issues, like Michelle Obama’s healthy food for children, and Laura Bush’s literacy, etc. They didn’t sit in on high level meetings just because they had “taken up” those issues. They were recognized as advocates with a lot of potential influence, but no one mistook it for anything like the right to sit in for the president (and Michelle Obama was highly qualified, as was Hillary Clinton; Laura Bush, as a trained librarian, was definitely qualified to “take up” the literacy issue).
Ivanka is probably as qualified relative to the Donald as RFK was relative to JFK, so that parallel is apt.
Hm. I would dispute that actually. The Kennedy brothers both had intact mental faculties, good educations, some government experience – they didn’t diverge much. The same cannot be said of Ivanka and her daddy – his mental faculties are far from intact.
It certainly appears that the ‘genuine’ First Lady is way down the pecking order as regards the governmental wing of the family business, which seems to run; Donnie; First Daughter; First Son-in-Law; First Lady.
Oh she’s just his sex doll. The kids are Blood.
Although maybe one of his kids qualifies on both counts…allegedly.