Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal (article says she should be controlling POTUS)

washingtonpost.com ^ | September 5, 2019 | Monica Hesse

[ransomnote]

Ivanka Trump descended upon Bogota, Colombia, this week to talk about women’s empowerment and left us talking about her sleeves. They were voluminous, bell-shaped swaths of green fabric. As the first daughter stood in solemn formation with the Colombian vice president, the sleeves caught a draft and attempted to launch themselves away from her body. Midair, they formed into perfect circles, and this became the hallmark photograph of the trip. Ivanka Trump from the neck up was on a mission of benign diplomacy. From the neck down, flying saucers.

It’s shallow to call attention to a minor clothing malfunction, but this viral sleeve image is what alerted many people to the fact that Ivanka Trump — who, after all, is not an elected official with a dedicated press corps — was in Latin America at all.

To understand exactly what she was doing there, your best hope was to follow the itinerary she unspooled on Instagram: She launched the Academy of Women Entrepreneurs, which, she said, was “designed to equip women with the practical skills they need to create sustainable businesses and to participate more fully in the global economy.” She participated in a wreath-laying ceremony. She met with Colombia’s president and vice president, and then she prepared to head to Argentina and Paraguay for more of the same.

Ivanka abroad seems to be Ivanka’s platonic ideal of herself: doing things that are considered patriotic but not overly political, important but not controversial, and personally on-brand. If you believe the rumors that Ivanka will run for office one day, you see her social media presence as fodder for a future campaign ad. MORE AT LINK

[Tax-chick]

Yes and yes.

[Liz]

ok.......

[tbw2]

The new liberal narrative is “he married his foreign handler”. That SHE is the foreign agent controlling him.

[bramps]

Ridiculous, attention-grabbing outfit . She better never get the brilliant idea of trying to get her father to wear a puffy shirt.

[Col Freeper]

[It’s shallow to call attention to a minor clothing malfunction, but ...] We (Monica Hesse and all of her Washington Compost Comrades) are as shallow as a puddle of defecated Sewer water.

[Carl Vehse]

Things could start to be normalized if the owner, management, and reporters of the WaPoo were tried, convicted, and sentenced to be publicly hanged for treason.

[caww]

Well Liz as for her clothing style isn't always the best ....she usually does well but when she doesn't get it right it's pretty bad. But we also know the media is going to ‘look for’ and find any way to make all the Trump family seen in the worst way

I've always questioned Ivankas involvement as she seemed to me to upending Melania’s role initially..until she moved into the whiteHouse...so I figured Ivanka was sort of a fill in til she got there. However......I think Ivanka got a "taste' of the Power of Washington and determined she would use the Power of her father's position to carry out 'her desires' for womens issues...which she's now taken worldwide. I have mixed feelings about Ivanka acting like a US Representative.....which it doesn't seem anyone really knows what or how she was appointed as or to do with....she just shows up.

[LegendHasIt]

Personally I wish that President Trump would tell Jarvanka to pack their bags and go home to run their own families and their own businesses, and leave running the nation to him.

He, and we, would be so much better off without Ivanka’s ‘progressive’ influence on a doting Daddy.

[kiryandil]

Monica Hesse is a skinny blonde bee-atch who needs a few dozen cheeseburgers to get her up to weight.

We can't do anything to get her up to half Annie Coulter's intellectual level...

[4Runner]

Personally I wish that President Trump would tell Jarvanka to pack their bags and go home to run their own families and their own businesses, and leave running the nation to him.

He, and we, would be so much better off without Ivanka’s ‘progressive’ influence on a doting Daddy.

I've said this so mny times on FR that I have nothing left but enemies on this site now. Don't know how everyone else gets away with it.

[LegendHasIt]

Maybe they all hate me too; I don’t know.

But I haven’t noticed a lot of Jarvanka love here.

Maybe a few but not a majority.

[poconopundit]

Ivanka did America proud in her visit to Columbia.

So, a modest jungle green dress with an flaring sleeve got some attention.  Great!  It's for a good cause — and it's certain the Columbian people were honored by her visit  BTW, she has pursued the same "women and entrepreneurship" program in other countries like Japan.

Wherever she goes Ivanka sends the not-so-subtle message that a three-child mother of class, intelligence, executive ability, fitness, and beauty was raised by the U.S. President.

And Ivanka's diplomat efforts are a tributary of President's Great River diplomacy that mixes strong engagement, personal relationships and openly laying cards on the table.

Javanka has been doing fantastic work in the Middle East.  And they secured a breakthrough in Mexico who is now helping us greatly on our border.

As for the old school diplomatic corps (Kissinger and the Harvard Kennedy school), they need to be called out for:

1. Allowing NATO countries to rip us off untold billions;

2. Losing our bi-lateral leverage in global trade agreements; and,

3. Allowing China to steal our intellectual property, destroy American jobs with huge trade deficits, and kill Americans by the tens of thousands with fetanyl (see Bannon and Kyle Bass Youtube.

So Ivanka, keep up the good work!  And wearing those eye-popping sleeves is a brilliant entrepreneurial idea in a country the Equatorial circle crosses.

[Fresh Wind]

[Fresh Wind]

I wonder how many snarky windy day articles Monica Hesse wrote about Michelle Antoinette?

[poconopundit]

I just find it so amusing that women want to talk about “equality” and “empowerment” and yet when a woman writes what is essentially a “news” article about another woman they go right to the clothing! 

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Ah, but Monica Hesse is no ordinary columnist.  In 2018 she was promoted to the esteemed role of "Gender Columnist" at the Amazon Washington Post!

Look at the stories she's written as noted in a WaPo PR piece:

• She has explored sexual identity through an older transgender woman and a teenager who identifies as non-binary.

• Her Election Day 2016 profile of Gladys Beeman, who was born the day women earned the right to vote and was headed to the polls to vote for a woman president.

• She has tackled abortion, Anita Hill, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop.

• In October, she and Dan Zak led a team in Features that produced new reporting on Harvey Weinstein and his egregious behavior.

You get the picture.  Monica Hesse was hired to write People Magazine celebrit stories from a Leftist LGBTQ Feminist's angle.

Definately an events and personality-focused girl reporter.  Ideas?  Not so much.

[trebb]

Kind of ironic - many here fret she has too much sway with her dad and the Left frets she doesn’t try to exert her will over him...

[Salamander]

At least she kept her yarbles covered.

[Fresh Wind]

Sometimes she gets help from Barry...