Posted on 02/15/2017 7:07:09 PM PST by drewh
But when the cameras are rolling and you’re a 35-year-old woman who should know how much symbols matter it leaves all kinds of uncomfortable questions: What is Ivanka Trump up to, anyway? What is her strange, as-yet-undefined mission in the White House? And, if it’s not too much to ask, where is her stepmother and what has she done with her?
No one envies Melania having to fill Michelle Obama’s shoes — at least some of her reticence is justified. , Michelle Obama set a high watermark in so many areas: mother, wife, style icon, role model to women around the world. She graced the cover of Vogue magazine an unprecedented three times.
Unless Mrs. Trump is personally making hot chocolate for Barron and his friends after school, or is helping him conjugate verbs for his French test, she needs to suit up, face the NYC-D.C. commute, and get in the game.
It only contributes to the worrisome atmosphere of an unstable presidency to have a First Lady who is MIA and a First Daughter — not an actual title, by the way — with an ambiguous but clearly ambitious agenda. As long as the White House continues to explore this strange arrangement without defining it, and without supporting either of these women with the staff required to prevent them from making amateurish gaffes, the world will continue to scrutinize their every move.
It remains to be seen if Ivanka Trump can be a strong presence in her father’s administration — strong in her own right, apart from playing dress-up when world leaders come to call. She has been a brand promoter for so long the transition to public service is bound to be a challenge. Step No. 1 may be getting out of her stepmother’s way.
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>>Unless Mrs. Trump is personally making hot chocolate for Barron and his friends after school, or is helping him conjugate verbs for his French test, she needs to suit up, face the NYC-D.C. commute, and get in the game.<<
Why? Neither you nor anyone else can define how Melania fulfills her primary role as mother, secondary role as wife and tertiary role as First Lady.
I think the fact she is ignoring the whole thing is both classy and smart.
Absolutely nothing.
I haven't heard much from them about Ivanka's Kids, I know that is coming though. I am calling it right now.
Wow! Nasty!
Boggles the mind doesn’t it? And this was in one of the more right wing papers of Canada but I think this is like Fox news now. A few sane conservative writers but also a bunch of insane leftists as well.
I took French for 4 years. We never conjugated anything.
Michelle Obama? I don’t think she dressed like a tramp, unless possibly by tramp you mean hobo (like it used to mean).
You’d have to have feet like a Sasquatch to fill Mochelle Obama’s shoes.
A 3 cover-Wide caboose!
“Culture is upstream of politics.” ~Andrew Breitbart
What a bunch of crap. So tell me, is not Ivanka all those things and more? She has her own business, is a mother, a style icon with her own business, never filled a useless post, and is a thousand times better looking than the woman who needs wigs to look like a monkey with a wig.
here’s a clue:
we elected a PRESIDENT. one man to do the job.
we did not elect him and his wife. we expect him to be able to do the job without her holding his hand.
as for Melania and her life as first lady... that’s entirely up to her.
BTW, this is the 21st century. it is not uncommon for people to work in one location and fly home on the weekends. it’s actually been very common for more then twenty years (i did it for a number of years in the 90s and again in the early 2000s)
She’s not eligible. Tiffany is the only one of Thumps children who is.
They do understand that there is a photographer right there who has posed them, right? Surely they don’t believe that Ivanka sits there all the time with her father and husband behind her, like its some natural pose? I am sure there is a similar picture of every President with his children in the oval office. I remember one with JFK jr and his dad. This is the kind of stuff the White House photographer gets paid to do.
> style icon
Michelle Obama? It still baffles me where this comes from.
“Michelle Obama set a high watermark in so many areas: mother, wife, style icon, role model to women around the world”
“Michelle was GLAMOROUS! Pure ELEGANCE! The next JACKIE KENNEDY!!!”
That the MSM actually believes such drivel proves their stupidity!!!
Google says size 11.5, but didn’t say whether that was men’s or women’s size.
As much as I love President Trump, and his whole family, I do wonder what I’d be thinking if Hillary had won, and Chelsea was brought into whatever they wanted. I’m not completely comfortable with it....maybe because Ivanka is a little more liberal than I like.
John and Abigail Adams come to mind...and probably many wives who ran farms, households, etc while their husbands built the country.
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