I’m not pleased at some of the stuff she does either.
In the end, he is supervising her.
I’ve defended her in the past. She is doing things he has tasked her to do. Tossing out a bone in the form of supporting women globally, is going to play well in certain quarters.
As for polishing Merkel’s apple, I’m not a big fan. It’s what you do when you go abroad. She wouldn’t be the one to criticize her. Trump will do enough of that on his own IMO.
If Merkel gets kudos from an offshoot of the Executive Branch, it’s going to make it easier for her to swallow the main criticism when it comes.
I’m just providing an alternative thing to consider.
I didn’t like seeing her championing Merkel. I think Merkel has been a terrible leader.
Ugh. He’s not supervising her—her can’t say ‘no’ to his little princess. If anything, she’s supervising him—working on her next pet liberal project of paid family leave: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6712027/Ivanka-Trump-leads-way-Munich-Security-Conference.html.
And I don’t buy it for a minute that she’s helping anything anywhere. He’s not a king and she’s not a princess to be propped up by hobnobbing with the powers of the world, as if she’s some sort of feminist-icon future president in training. The whole image of nepotism and of her being somehow his representative has got to hurt far more than it helps anything.
And then there’s the crap that Jared is up to and gets us into, which he is only in a position to inflict on us as her husband. Nepotism squared.
And no, I’m not a fan of Merkel either, but at least she was her country’s elected leader. (And because she doesn’t have children, she couldn’t inflict them on the people of Germany as if Germany was their little plaything!)