I freely admit to enjoy watching women tearing Ivanka Trump a new one. While she is not smarmy like George W. Bush is, she reminds me of some of the things I hated about W. She’s a person who owes her fortune and position to her father but thinks she’s an example to working women everywhere. W. did the same damn thing. He just grated on my nerves far more than Ivanka because the insincerity was obvious to anyone with a couple of brain cells. To paraphrase Jim Hightower, Ivanka Trump was born on third base but thinks she hit a triple. However, because she is a woman, if a white guy such as myself attacks her, Republicans, especially Republican women, will dismiss my criticisms as sexism. It helps that women like Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle are calling Ivanka on her BS.
Yeah, she’s not making policy decisions, technically. It’s her despicable old man that is making life miserable for the rest of us. But if you have an office in the White House with a tax payer funded staff and claim you are a policy adviser, you share in accountability for those policies Ivanka. Even if she is just window dressing to deflect criticism of Donald’s sexist policies, it makes her the getaway driver for her father’s policies that hurt women.
Oh but she is supposed to support her father! Really? She’s a grown woman who is supposedly a model of empowerment. There is nothing stopping her from telling her father, “Uh, no thanks Dad. I will just run my business from NYC.” I can’t think of anything that says empowerment more than telling a wealthy father, “No.”
But something tells me that she’s not afraid of offending her father. Everyone who is a Trump bootlicker is trying to convince the rest of us that Ivanka is not like her lying, corrupt businessman father. However, Ivanka tells us that she learned how to be successful from her father. Her father has employed lying, cheating, and bullying to get his way in real estate.
Anyone thinks that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?
As an example of this, look at Ivanka’s latest answer to having her father’s crimes against women thrown in her face. Ivanka basically said that the media is making this up. Yep, Donald Trump admitting to assualting women on video was made up by the nasty old media. In other words, she’s learned to lie like her old man.
Ivanka is in the White House because she wants to enrich herself at our expense. And she’s willing to serve her father’s political needs to do this. She doesn’t like the word “complicit,” but she is just that. I’m just happy that some women are going to hold her accountable for her actions.