At least 10 of my Facebook friends posted their outrage that Ivanka Trump moved up to the main table at a G20 meeting (see “Ivanka Trump briefly sits in for her father at G20 session” (CNN)). These folks describe themselves as “feminist” and “pro Affirmative Action”. However pointless the G20 meetings might be, why wouldn’t they be happy that a woman got to sit in a position of apparent power? (If the answer is “there were more qualified people available,” how can that be squared with their support for affirmative action (Wikipedia says this is called “positive discrimination in the UK”)?)
Readers: What do we think about Ivanka now that she’s had nearly six months of White House experience? Has she done anything notable other than advocate for childless taxpayers to subsidize parents via paid leave? (See Paid Maternity Leave: Employers or Taxpayers should Pay? and When and why did it become necessary to pay Americans to have children?)
The self-described feminists today on Ivanka:
- Handbag designer represents US at G20 meeting. Christ, this is embarassing.
- Yes, In America, Anyone Really Can Be President.
- I didn’t realize today was bring your daughter to work day!
Ivanka as supernumerary, too early to tell. I don’t know what she knows or said. My guess, Ivanka can’t be less informed than her father who is galactically ignorant about almost everything. Thus far US has not been expelled from NATO or G20. Let’s see where we stand 2 years down the road. Trump as real estate developer is a harmless jester. Trump as POTUS:
1) Empirical confirmation of how out of touch Democrats are.
2) Empirical confirmation there is no correlation between money and brains.
3) The first President in modern times that most closely represents the character and intelligence of the bulk of the American people.
a. More than half the country does not believe in evolution.
b. Unlike the good folks of Virginia City, Nevada who left in 1880s when the Comstock Load dried up, many Americans sit in Frog Croak Hollow waiting for the next coal boom. Or auto parts manufacturing boom. Or are content to collect corn ethanol welfare while waving the flag and cheering their independent spirit and self-reliance.
A democracy gets the leadership it deserves not what it needs. Every 50 years or so it gets lucky.
Paul, President trump is a very successful person by any metric. If you base success on money, hotness of wife(s), success of children, happiness etc he is likely more successful than you or anyone else (thank you for your service by the way). To say he is not intelligence is very foolish. He went to a very good college and even became president of the united states all while being outspent by Hillary Clinton 3:1 and getting unfair media treatment. I am sorry you feel the rest of the country is not very smart. A smart guy like you should be smart enough to know our government is not even a democracy but rather a republic. And thank goodness for this if we were a democracy Hillary Clinton would be president and America will not be great again!
I have worked with people who have dealt with her in business and they said (well before trump became president) that she is impressive. I suppose it rankles people that she seems to have everything going for her — unlike most of us.
lock her up!
Listening to Ivanka in her many interviews (similar to her mother Ivana who’s smart-as-a-whip), anyone paying attention would conclude that she’s highly intelligent. As to whether Trump’s as intelligent as Putin (who is clearly a brilliant strategist), that remains to be seen. Getting tiresome here inside the Beltway where I live to hear Dems mocking the entire family’s intelligence. Had Chelsea Clinton been sitting in on the G20 alongside Hillary, most people in my ‘hood would have been lauding her, excited about Chelsea’s expected run for office, so Ivanka does seem to suffer from unfair treatment. Check out her eponymous clothing line (at Lord & Taylor among other retailers) — might be a good investment if she is forced to shut down due to objections about foreign-made apparel (exactly how is Ivanka supposed to compete making her line in the US a la Patagonia and a few others)???