The leader of the free world’s foreign minister is not pulling any punches. On Saturday, Sigmar Gabriel said what our other allies or Republicans won’t say; that Ivanka Trump’s White House role is a form nepotism.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Saturday criticised Ivanka Trump's role as an adviser to her father in the White House, describing it as a form of "nepotism."
Remember when we were leaders of the free world and could make this accusation towards other nations? I do, it was just over 100 days ago. Now that we’ve lost that distinction with Trump’s election, Germany has taken that role.
"For me there are things that remain strange, like for example the visit of his daughter to Germany which was treated almost like a world event, while the mix of politics with family and business reminds us instead of nepotism and would be unimaginable here," he said.
I totally agree with him here. I too find it very strange, and also criminal that Ivanka gets to play a qualified WH assistant to her daddy simply because of daddy. If this were just another job, we’d write it off as a privilege of being rich, but this woman is sitting in the White House while at the same time selling her Chinese made shit to America. No, just no.
"It always bothers me when members of a family, who have never been elected, show up suddenly as official state representatives and are treated almost as if they were members of a royal family," the Social Democrat said in an interview published Saturday with the German regional media group Funke.
Kinda makes us seem like a 3rd world banana republic, nicht wahr?
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