His daughter’s eyes welled with tears
So Ivanka Trump has at least once grokked the full horror of her horrible father, if the Times is accurate.
It was last October.
Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news that The Washington Post was about to publish an article saying that Mr. Trump had bragged about grabbing women’s private parts. As Ivanka Trump joined the others waiting to see a video of the episode, her father insisted that the description of his comments did not sound like him.
When the recording finally showed he was wrong, Mr. Trump’s reaction was grudging: He agreed to say he was sorry if anyone was offended. Advisers warned that would not be enough.
We see yet again what a pig he is – if “anyone” was offended. He pokes you in the eye, then he grudgingly says he’ll apologize if you say your eye hurts.
Ivanka Trump made an emphatic case for a full-throated apology, according to several people who were present for the crisis discussion that unfolded in Mr. Trump’s 26th-floor office. Raised amid a swirl of tabloid headlines, she had spent her adult life branding herself as her father’s poised, family-focused daughter. She marketed her clothing line with slogans about female empowerment and was finishing a book on the topic. As she spoke, Mr. Trump remained unyielding. His daughter’s eyes welled with tears, her face reddened, and she hurried out in frustration.
Well, on second thought, maybe that’s nothing to do with grokking the horror. Maybe it’s just irritation that he ignored her advice. Either way, she’s working for him and thus complicit with him now, so it doesn’t matter. She may be “poised” but she’s a moral vacuum.
In interviews last week, she said she intended to act as a moderating force in an administration swept into office by nationalist sentiment.
There’s no moderating something like that.
Some former employees express surprise at her new policy interest, saying she was once reluctant to grant them maternity leave. But other observers call her the administration’s best hope for progress on gender issues and say they are encouraged to see a presidential daughter, and a top member of a Republican White House, advocate federal paid family leave. (She intends to go beyond her father’s campaign pledge and push to include both fathers and mothers, according to a White House official.)
How about a living wage and overtime pay for the Chinese women who make her clothes?
Those close to Ms. Trump say she is generally business-friendly and socially liberal. But she says that on many issues, she does not have strongly held views. (In the White House, she uses corporate terms — like “business plan” — as much as partisan or political ones.)
Of course she doesn’t have views – she’s empty-headed. No one would be paying the slightest attention to her if she weren’t an offspring of Donnie from Queens.
For now, Ms. Trump acknowledges how much she has to learn and asks the public to be patient with her.
“I do believe that in time I’ll get to the right place,” she said. “In the short run I’ll have missteps, and, in some cases, I’ll take shots that I could have avoided if I had publicly said what I think.”
“I’m really, really trying to learn,” she added.
Yeah no. People who have “much to learn” shouldn’t be doing that job in the first place. This isn’t Darling’s first job, this is the fucking government, and she has zero relevant experience or education. No we’re not going to be “patient with her.”
Someone going into the presidency has a lot to learn, since it is a job like no other. That’s why they usually surround themselves with people who’ve already learned it, unlike Trump surrounding himself with people like Ivanka and Kushner who don’t know any more than he does. And most incoming presidents realize how much they have to learn, so they do their homework before inauguration day, in order to have a short learning curve and hit the ground running.
Trump appears to have hit the ground golfing.
I don’t imagine anyone, least of all a female offspring, could have strongly held views about anything significant and expect to remain close to DJT. This whole family is a horror show.
Fuck No!
Not for her, not for any politician. You choose to stick yourself in that position it had better be with the understanding that it’s your choice to be there and that you’ve done it because you think you are qualified to have a direct and lasting impact on people lives. You better be able to deliver and you better be prepared for shit when you hurt people.
Donnie famously declared that he (and by extension, his administration) would be “ready from day one”. It’s more than 100 days in, and they are ONLY NOW figuring out that they are hopelessly underwater.
I conclude that Trump doesn’t give a crap what Lolita thinks, even when she turns on the waterworks. So the media spin about her influence over her father is BS.
Especially considering it’s looking like Pence’s executive order is gonna get signed after being supposedly derailed by Ivanka the first time.
I’m not sure our evil corporate overlords can save gay people from the feds…
“Lolita” was a rape victim in a famous book, a character that’s been turned into a misogynist’s fantasy of “easy” “jail bait.” It’s disgusting to refer to a woman like that. Regardless of who she is, Sam Day.
Is it? I took that as a shot at Trump (and a fair one, considering the “piece of ass” comment and those photos from her early teenage years), not at his daughter.
Maybe I misread Sam. Put the way you took it (which is reasonable), O, I’d agree with you. If that’s what you meant, Sam, I withdraw my criticism and apologize. My knee was probably jerking.
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