Ivanka's Key To Success: Her Lovin' Daddy

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We know how =cough=  fond  =cough= sociopath and incompetent Donald "Not Exonerated" Trump is about his eldest daughter, Ivanka. Bringing her and her shady husband Jared to the White (Supremacist) House meant the Trump family grift was on. Trump included her in meetings with heads of state where she had no business (literally) being, as if to pad her post-White House portfolio.

In a fascinating article in The Atlantic, Elaina Plott describes how a request for an interview with Ivanka was prefaced by a 20 minute pep talk by her adoring father in the Oval Office (gag alert):

You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me. Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump. “Oh!” the president said. “Ivanka!”

Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished. “I forgot you guys were meeting—I was just coming by!” she said. “Uh-oh!”

The first daughter (though not the only daughter), wearing a fitted black mockneck and black pants, her golden hair fastened in a low twist, glided across the Oval Office. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and it was apparently vital to inform Trump, at that very moment, that Siemens had pledged to expand its education and training opportunities to more workers as part of Ivanka’s workforce-development initiative. She also wanted to remind him that tomorrow would be the inaugural session of the program’s advisory board, and that Tim Cook [ed. a.k.a. Tim Apple] would be joining the meeting.

“She loves doing it,” Trump said, presumably to me but while looking at Ivanka. “And she wants no credit. Just like me, she wants no credit.” They both started laughing.

Seriously icky. We can imagine Barry White's "You're My First My Last My Everything" playing in his warped head. Trump goes on in the interview to praise his daughter (while barely acknowledging his other children) and suggests she'd be great at the World Bank or the UN. He also indulges in some dynastic fantasy by saying “If she ever wanted to run for president, I think she’d be very, very hard to beat.”  

She's depicted herself as a champion for women entrepreneurs (even though she got where she is because of a doting and wealthy daddy) and for children (despite being out to lunch for her daddy's cruel and vindictive child separation policy at the southern border). In other words, she's all about "brand," not reality, and sadly for her, it's not going to recover from daddy's vile record.

(image: Ya feel me?)