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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These people have absolutely lost their Minds!
Ivanka is a National Treasure!
Cr** news....
World's first Wookie First Lady & pig-in-a-style-bag clotheshorse.
Amazingly disgusting, ain’t it. Maybe Sarah Palin can give her some pointers on dealing with the crazies.
Where is the damn hurl alert?!
Who died and made this Canadian she-beast God?
She doesn’t take care of her kids, dresses like a tramp, nothing feminine about her. Role model??
How do you write something like that with a straight face?
Previous post is directed at Michelle not Melania.
>>Michelle Obama set a high watermark in so many areas: mother, wife, style icon, role model to women around the world. <<
In your bizarro world. In the REAL world, she was a distracted mom whose style highlights were boob belts and mom jeans on a fat behind stolen from a rhinoceros. Many rational people believe he was a guy and the kids are from a test-tube from someone else.
My goodness, how these supposed feminists revert to ugly old stereotyes about women when they don’t approve of their politics, it’s just so strange. The cognitive dissonance in their heads must be deafening.
I agree with that. She is a national treasure. The whole family is.
Why? For one reason, they reveal the importance of a good family.
Despite Trump’s ups and downs marriage wise, he still has a good relationship with his children, grand-children, and ex wives. Good for him.
Citizens could do a lot worse folks.
As for Ivanka sitting in that chair, Trump is absolutely right to let her sit there and possibly get ideas.
While I might not be able to support her depending on her policies, I do think it’s a father’s duty to lift the goals of his children.
Trump loves his kids. It shows. It shows that they love him too. His grand-children love him too.
What a great thing.
Let the people who want to kill their young look on despising him. They are the little ones in the whole scheme of things.
I never once looked at Obama’s girls and was angry that they loved their dad or he loved them.
Good for them. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
When will I stop barfing????????
With Thanks To FReeper: Grampa Dave
Mrs. Obama, style icon? What ARE these people smoking? Big belts around fat hips is NOT stylish, it is poor judgement and low class!
Melania is beautiful, sexy, and reticent in nature...It will take her a while to figure this all out....But one thing is for damn sure, d that is she will eclipse any claim to beauty the left desperately tries to hoist on us in Mrs. boa as legacy as First Lady.
You can tell that Donald does NOT like to pose for pictures.
Must mean her boob belts!
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