Si es Goya
I thought it was a photoshop when I looked to see why “Ivanka” is trending – but no, she really did tweet it her own royal self.
Remember, kids, she’s an OFFICIAL in the WHITE HOUSE.
She’s also someone who’s never eaten canned beans in her life.
She’s also the loyal daughter and employee of the president who calls Mexicans rapists and bad hombres.
Ivanka Trump is facing backlash after tweeting a photo of herself holding up a can of Goya beans. The tweet from the president’s daughter includes Goya’s slogan, “If it’s Goya, it has to be good,” in both English and in Spanish. She also posted the image to her Facebook and Instagram pages.
As White House officials do oh wait no they don’t. Marketing canned beans isn’t part of their job, and is in conflict with their job.
Trump’s social media post comes days after Goya CEO Robert Unanue praised Mr. Trump during an event last week at the White House. “We’re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder,” Unanue said.
Well he’s a builder of ugly high rises, yes, but he’s also a let-dier, a killer, a destroyer, a bribe taker, a raper…and a few other things.
Oh no, the radical left New York Times. No wonder Bari Weiss quit.
But it’s ok, the White House issued a statement saying it’s all totally fine.
“Only the media and the cancel culture movement would criticize Ivanka for showing her personal support for a company that has been unfairly mocked, boycotted and ridiculed for supporting this administration — one that has consistently fought for and delivered for the Hispanic community,” White House communications aide Carolina Hurley said. “Ivanka is proud of this strong, Hispanic-owned business with deep roots in the U.S. and has every right to express her personal support.”
She’s not in a position to “show her personal support” for a commercial product, because of her job.
People who work for presidents get an ethics briefing before they start. The ethics briefing doesn’t carve out an exception for presidents’ daughters who want to show their “personal support” for a brand.
Updating to add:
Goya, you say?
Is that the only Goya product available or did princess actually choose to use the one with Negros so prominently displayed?
On a side note, does that false smile and wide-open eyes look remind anyone else of a child desperate for approval? It’s not just this picture, it’s something I’ve been noticing for a long time. Perhaps the best example was when she butted in on a conversation between Theresa May, Angela Merkel and others with an inane comment before standing back with that same pleading look on her face, as though she was waiting to be told how clever she was to notice that the conversation was about money.
AoS, she could have chosen garbanzo beans, a huge favorite with my middle-eastern friends for making hummus. They insist Goya are the best beans to use.
So, yeah, the choice of black beans was…unfortunate? planned? ugly?
No, the fake smile and googly eyes just remind me (not that I need reminding) that she’s a vapid barbie doll of a human.
I mean everything about that picture is a poke in the eye. The hands – the extended pinky on the one, the dainty meaningless gesture with the other; the gruesomely smooth hair; the heavy eye makeup; the sex-doll smile; the white white white white dress; the gold chain; the beige lipstick; the three-quarter profile – ALL OF IT. Uncanny valley to the max.
It would be a more meaningful endorsement if she was actually eating them.
Imagine the frozen smile if the Goya people actually had the garbanzos to ask her to do that!
I regularly make chili for my lunches. And up until this latest fiasco, I used Goya beans–not because they’re intrinsically better, but because they have a pull-top lid, which makes the process just a little easier. But I’m going to happily forgo that benefit to walk away from Unanue’s Trumpeteering.
And the weird framing–even I, who am not known for my expertise in graphic design, would have cropped the image before posting it.
guest @#9:
Crop the image? I disagree. That could be taken to mean that her lovely cream blouse has something on it she wants to hide: a dribble of tomato sauce perhaps from an overly enthusiastic demolition of a hamburger in the White House dining room? Or worse: chunder after drinking too much beer. Or grease from a bike chain wielded by a member of the local chapter of the Hell’s Angels in a brawl she and a Harley-riding boyfriend got into down El Paso way years ago: where the locals got her started on beans and gave her the blouse, since altered.
Crop the top of the photo and it could be taken that she is in some low-ceilinged beanery out by Cannery Row.
So no. It is just right as it is.