To Ivanka Trump. Don't ever think to speak for me about empowering women again.

[Solly Mack]

You attended the W20 Summit as the U.S. representative, which means you were attempting to speak for the women of America.

As one of those women, I say - No.

Your non-answer answers on the struggles of women everywhere merely exposed how clueless you really are on the subject.

Your comments about needing smart policies without once mentioning a single smart policy your father has enacted or even considered was pure smoke and mirrors not lost on the rest of the panel at all. One panel member even called you out, politely, on how racism discourages the empowerment of all women. How health-care, a subject she boldly stated the entire panel was dancing around - for your benefit - was pivotal to empowering women.

You sat there - smiling. On display. No substance. Nothing to offer but your daddy's name.

So, please, in the future, stop pretending you give a fuck.

Signed...

A woman not in the mood to suffer your privilege gladly.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. She's a Stepford Heir, unelected, inexperienced,

and has no business speaking for women or anybody else. It's outrageous.

[Solly Mack]

3. It was insulting to see her on that panel.

[spanone]

2. K&R... Thank You Solly Mack!

[Solly Mack]

4. She will probably speak again tomorrow. Sadly.

[spanone]

12. she possesses not one single qualification to do anything on behalf on anyone!

imagine what this has cost the taxpayers.

private jet.

secret service protection

entourage

such bullshit

[Solly Mack]

15. I know. And for what? Be polite to the daughter in hopes of ingratiating a madman?

IT is no different from her father.

[SergeStorms]

102. She's being groomed.....

as is her hubby, for a future Trump "dynasty" (emphasis on the 'nasty') that "The Donald" dreams of for his family. Jared as President, White House Barbie as First Lady, and down the line, and so-on and so-forth. Little Barron would be the crowning glory of the Trump dynasty (emphasis on the 'nasty') and the Trumps would eventually surpass the Bush family in American Presidential history.

At least that's my take on it. I can't see this grand dream of Trump's ever getting off the ground, especially since Trump is about as popular as a herpes outbreak right now.

[calimary]

50. And she'll take the podium with a long meaningless speech delivered in that meaningless monotone.

That lifeless monotone. DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

Expressionless voice. Matches her mostly-expressionless face. With the face, I wonder if it's Botox. She's of the age when wealthy society women start tweaking their faces with injections and fillers and so forth. Which means she'll probably wind up looking like a gargoyle when she's 50.

Once you start with that shit, in far many cases, you can't stop. The first facelift holds for a couple of years. But then gravity starts taking its toll, and you have to go in and get a little "update." And that holds for a couple more years, and then you have to go have that "fixed." And THAT holds up for a couple more years, until gravity again takes the lead, and ...

Side Effects of Botox Injections on Forehead, Around Eyes, Lips and in the Treatment of Migraines
http://www.healtreatcure.org/botox/side-effects-of-botox-injections-on-forehead-eyes-migraines/

[Doreen]

55. You do know she needs to remain hot for daddy.

Daddy's little girl must remain an eye candy for him.

[Solly Mack]

56. I only wish she'd nip and tuck her mouth shut about things she has no real knowledge of.

[PJMcK]

5. Here's another reason Ivanka Trump is dangerous

This is a quote from her book, "The Trump Card."

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true... This doesn't mean you should be duplicitous or deceitful, but don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.

Ivanka Trump is a very dangerous person because she is perceived by many to be a stabilizing influence on her father. I believe she is an enabler of the first order.

As John Oliver said, "the Apple doesn't fall very far from the Orange."

[Solly Mack]

8. I watched his show that night. IT is her father with a somewhat better vocabulary.

At one point she was struggling with the word exacerbate and opted to say exasperate instead.

As in... exasperates the problem. (is what she said)

She stuttered a bit trying to get the word exacerbate out then used exasperate. As if the meanings were the same.

[LakeArenal]

59. Dumps have the best words, the biggest. nt

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. Wow... just like her dad. n/t

[Ilsa]

63. A family of sociopaths. nt

[IcyPeas]

87. everyone should watch that episode

his expose on Jared and Ivanka was great. I never realized before that I have never heard Jared speak!!

[tavalon]

95. There was a Saturday Night Live skit about Jared and his prolific non speaking

[Mendocino]

105. Ivanka & Jared: a two person greek chorus.

When daddy says something stupid, there are the two of them trying to soft sell it. Well then if they are supposed to be a moderating influence on dt, they should be fired for non performance.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

6. She learned from her 'show guy' father, so uses

his playbook. She's nothing but a con. With expensive surgery.

[Solly Mack]

9. She is very much her daddy's daughter.

[mopinko]

7. well, since at this point i think our only hope is heavy pressure

from our allies in the world to oust these vampires, i say put her out there for everyone to see.
as long as people think he has someone to keep him on track, he wont be as scary as he really ought to be.

[Solly Mack]

10. She offers no real check on him. She merely crafts his image as something he, and she, is not.

The panel was polite but not impressed. Oh, I'm sure they will say kind things about her. But the looks on their faces told a different tale.

[brer cat]

11. Excellent, Solly.

She speaks for Trump, Inc. and no one else. It is insulting that she has any role in this maladministration, especially one in public view.

[Solly Mack]

13. They had to dance around certain subjects which took away from the importance of the panel.

In order to not offend, a strain was put on the panel, taking away from it.

Juliana Rotich wasn't having it though. She was the one who brought up racism and health-care to IT's "smart policy" bullshit.

[demmiblue]

14. I finally found a video of the event...

but I can already feel my blood pressure rising even thinking about watching it!

Even watching this makes me sick:

This article from Elle keeps coming to mind:

Ivanka Trump Will Not Fix "Women's Issues"—She Will Distract From Them

...

Her work isn't feminism, but femvertising.

Patriarchy has always had room for the Exceptional Woman—the one woman smart enough, sweet enough, strong enough, soft enough, pure enough, sexy enough to satisfy all of our culture's contradictory demands on women, and thus make it to the top of a sexist system on merit alone. Patriarchy needs that woman. She provides men with an excuse to blame women for their own pain and struggles while simultaneously assuring women that sexism only needs to be outwitted to be overcome. She tells us that the system is survivable for women—you simply have to be the right kind of woman.

Exceptional Women don't exist in real life. No one is unaffected by sexism; no woman, no matter how well-behaved, is ever safe. But some women, by dint of privilege and good luck, are fairly convincing avatars. This year's Exceptional Woman is Ivanka Trump, and she's such a convincing Exceptional Woman that she's helped make a self-confessed sexual predator who ran the most openly misogynist presidential campaign in modern history palatable to a large number of Americans.

Of course, Trumpism is unsurvivable for women who do not happen to be exceptional Ivankas. "Being the best mother you can be" probably doesn't sound aspirational to a woman who's lost her birth control due to the repeal of Obamacare and can't abort her resulting pregnancy due to increased state abortion restrictions, lack of federal funding, and/or the overturning of Roe. The support staff who provide Ivanka's soothing greige lifestyle—domestic and child care workers who are predominantly female—will not find their work-life balance enhanced by child care proposals that don't cover the cost of caring for their own children, or by the lack of a livable minimum wage.

The goal of Trumpism is not to benefit women. The goal is to benefit one woman, Ivanka, or the one type of woman she represents. She provides her father with a human credential and downplays his sexism; in exchange, she gains an invaluable boost for her aspirational lifestyle brand (only $10,800 for the bracelet Ivanka wore on 60 Minutes!) and the opportunity to charge strangers $50,000 for a "coffee chat," thus proving that women really can succeed after all. We're not meant to benefit from her; we're meant to look at her, and think about how we can be more like her. We're meant to blame ourselves for falling short, as we have with every other Exceptional Woman to date. Ivanka is the Disney princess; we're the peasant chorus members who watch, and serve, and sigh at her pretty hair. Hell, maybe we'll even pitch in some background vocals on a few of the big musical numbers. Peasants always do, in those movies, even though they're probably all starving.

http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41444/ivanka-trump-distraction/?src=socialflowTW

[Solly Mack]

16. Thanks for the link!

Thanks for the article!!

[demmiblue]

17. Here is the full video, if anyone is interested (the one above was just a clip of the arrival):

[smirkymonkey]

40. +1000

She sickens me! I wish she would just go away. I find her almost as disgusting as I find her father.

[Doreen]

54. Almost???

[smirkymonkey]

61. He is unsurpassable.

Can't touch that!

[ailsagirl]

68. That's because she's sickening

[Hekate]

76. Brilliant insight from Elle. Thanks

[SunSeeker]

104. Great Elle piece. Thanks for posting.

In Trump world, how a woman appears to men is how her value is based. And the way women naturally look is never good enough. Every time I see Trump's expensively surgically altered wife and daughter, I am reminded of this fact. Not exactly the most "empowering" message for women and girls.

[JHan]

18. Great post. On point.

[fleabiscuit]

19. K&R

[Phoenix61]

20. I've never much cared for spoiled little princesses

Her cluelessness is nothing short of amazing but considering who her father is, completely understandable.

[bronxiteforever]

21. She is a b.s. artist like her pa.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

22. I'd like to see Ronda Rousey take a piece of her.

[sarge43]

23. Tell that to Muslim women, to immegrate women.

Yeah and we take it personally. Hurt one of us and you hurt us all.

[stevenleser]

25. SNL got it exactly right, she's complicit. It's that simple. One word, complicit. nt

[Solly Mack]

35. Yep.

[Still In Wisconsin]

26. I can't STAND Ivahhhnka

That rich, trust fund baby"better than you because my father has money" air makes me want to vomit. She's nothing more than an heiress with a private/boarding school pedigree and a lot of plastic surgery.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

28. Yup. Sickening.

[BSdetect]

27. Any of my three daughters could run rings around her for awareness and wisdom

[Wounded Bear]

29. C'mon now, I'm sure her appearance was good for...

selling a few thousand pairs of shoes and some cheezy jewelry, all copied from real designers.

[Solly Mack]

33. Oh, yeah. Europeans jumping all over that fashion statement.

Style: American WTF.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. I find her every utterance an insult. Her affectational voice modulation like nails on a chalkboard.

Her floaty gait little more than learned in model school. Her fake chin, nose and boobs so obviously fake.

I find NOTHING about her likable or competent.

But most of all, the sheer chutzpah of her deigning to speak for real people is more than this country should be asked to bear.

I am GLAD she's getting her ass kicked in Germany right now.

How DARE they send her to represent the US?

How DARE they?

[Solly Mack]

31. She was booed by audience members but those probably didn't penetrate her bubble.

[Stinky The Clown]

37. The deafness borne of privilege.

She disgusts me.

[llmart]

41. Thank you for saying exactly what I feel...

That whole family disgusts me. I have heard it said from others that they are grooming her for the presidency.

Let that thought sink in and don't dismiss the notion that her father couldn't steal another election for her. We need to stay vigilant and resist, persist and protest.

She's a fake and she'll NEVER speak for this woman!

[iluvtennis]

51. Amen

[Hekate]

85. That voice, that voice. Do you know she says the same things as Daddy, just self-controlled & soft?

How dare we peasants or any of our surrogates in the Press question her or her Daddy? She really wants us to know she does not appreciate that "tone" or that "line of questioning." How very rude of us.

I would very much like to see her booed off the stages of the world.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

91. Oh god yes, that voice, the affectation, the slow

fake, "thoughtful" pauses! Aarghhh! I thought I was the only one!! Thank you!

[Fla Dem]

32. Ivanka defended her dad at a womens conference in Germany. It didnt gowell.

Aaron Rupar Journalist,
ThinkProgress. Twitter: @atrupar. Email: [e-mail]
Apr 25

Ivanka Trump now serves in a nebulous but powerful role in the White House. As is the case with her husband, former newspaper owner and real estate developer Jared Kushner, her main qualification for being there is that she happens to be family with President Trump.

On Tuesday, Ivanka was in Berlin to represent the United States in a panel at the W20 Summit, an international convention dedicated to the “economic empowerment of women.” The moderator of Ivanka’s W20 panel pulled no punches, asking her right away to clarify her White House role.

More>>>

https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-jeered-berlin-women-panel-trump-misogyny-436dc8da9fe4

https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-jeered-berlin-women-panel-trump-misogyny-436dc8da9fe4

Ivanka Speaking
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Full video of panel discussion with Ivanka.
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[Solly Mack]

34. It damn sure didn't. Thanks for the links!

[smirkymonkey]

88. It makes me sick just to see her on the same stage as those other women.

Who on earth does she think she is? She can't hold a candle to any of them.

[gademocrat7]

36. She is a deplorable grifter.

[Solly Mack]

46. She is.

The only positive change she is interested in is the change in her pocket.

[onecaliberal]

38. No, you entitled little maggot you don't speak for us.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. Solid Post, Solly

I can understand your pique.

[Solly Mack]

44. And then she called herself a feminist.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. It's Easy To Be Any Kind of "ist" You Want. . .

. . .when there is little that would ever affect her privileged and pampered life.

With that kind of security, it's super simple to talk the talk, because you never actually have to walk the walk.

[leftstreet]

42. DURec

[MedusaX]

43. Perhaps a clever ploy by Angela M?

Come with me, my pretty, and show your true self to the world....

[Solly Mack]

45. Maybe.

[JI7]

47. empty phony plastic asshole

[iluvtennis]

49. ITA, I wanted to puke when I heard a reporter say Ivanka is representing American women. GAH

[Solly Mack]

57. She's the "face" of the Trump brand and they really mean face, since they are hoping her looks

distract enough away from her shortcomings. (and her father's)

[iluvtennis]

67. Truth!

[Sunlei]

52. She 'supports her Father is ok. To "pretend" shes pro woman with a daddylike him is WRONG!

[nikibatts]

62. She hasn't a clue what poor or working women have to go through and how much they had to

struggle and deal with men like her dad to keep their jobs and marriages in tact.

[Glaisne]

53. A rich oligarch

who has benefited from nepotism and never had to struggle in her life could never speak on the struggles of women everywhere. Especially in this case.

[Solly Mack]

72. Yet to hear her tell it she has earned it all.

[Glaisne]

106. Born on third base

thought she hit a triple.

[mwooldri]

58. Sounds like the entire audience called her out.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39704840

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka was met with groans as she defended her father's attitude towards women at the G20 women's summit in Berlin.

...

An audible groan went up as she told the room her father was a "tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive".

Reason why Ivanka was there? So that Angela Merkel has the ear of Donald, as a back channel so to say.

[Solly Mack]

70. During one part of the program they did.

During the panel the other women on the stage were not impressed with her.

[Heartstrings]

60. White privilege at it's finest.... nt

[Scalded Nun]

64. You can be a champion for women's rights, or you can be a part of the Trump administration.

You can't be both. They are mutually exclusive.

[Solly Mack]

73. She is as much about the optics as her father.

This is how I want you to see me, so that's the role I'll play. She's scripted to her part.

[H2O Man]

65. recommended.

[Solly Mack]

71. Hello Waterman.

Hope all is well with you.

[H2O Man]

78. Hi!

I'm still on this side of the soil, and appreciating every day. How are you?

[Solly Mack]

100. Still above ground, too. Makes every day a good one.

[Solomon]

66. This is how stupid she sounded.

https://m.

[Solly Mack]

69. Yes

[JI7]

82. Worse since she is in her mid 30s and not a teen

[babylonsister]

74. Word! She has no idea how to relate to us; that gold spoon gets in the way. nt

[Hekate]

75. She and Jared are the pretty faces on this foul ugly corrupt Administration. Crown Princess ...

...and Prince Consort are what I call them because of their entirely unearned inherited privilege.

In reality, all of the remaining Royals of Europe reign over Constitutional monarchies -- so they and their extended families are raised from birth to have some sense of public duty and patriotism.

Not so for the scions of the Trump Business Empire. Even before the Mad King lost his marbles, it was run as an absolute monarchy answerable to no one. There is no patriotism -- banks and money flow are borderless. There is no public duty -- their only peers are other billionaires and oligarchs.

Thank you for pointing out the sheer offensiveness of Ivanka saying she and Daddy care about women and children. It would be so much better if they (especially she) stopped pretending to give a fuck.

[C_U_L8R]

77. Inanka's so smarmy and vacant

I've heard Ivanka's a real asshole... no surprise there.
She comes off as not very bright but very manipulative.

[malaise]

79. Great Post

Rec

[Lifelong Protester]

80. K & R

She doesn't speak for me.

[Stellar]

81. hear, hear!

[DRoseDARs]

83. She was there on Angela Merkel's invitation. The chancellor is not stupid...

...but I wonder what she was trying to accomplish having Ivanka there. To surround her with strong, intelligent women and educate her, mayhaps?

[Solly Mack]

99. She was, AM isn't, and I'm sure AM had a motive.

I have my doubts about IT being influenced by the women around her today. More like IT felt she an equal - which she so clearly is not.

But maybe...maybe.

[eyeofnewt]

84. Perfect!

Thank you for this post. I've ruminated over her presence there all day. Over on the Twitter there's a link to a Chris Cillizza article defending her for defending him- all because, he says, almost every daughter would in any situation where their father is under attack. No, not a daughter with a moral compass. But yes, a daughter who profits from that father's position and who has not one ounce of embarrassment over her own lack of self respect.
That said, I can now go to work at Job #2 today.

You should try this whole work thing, Ivanka- it's something lots of us have to do.

[SunSeeker]

86. Who better to speak for women's empowerment than a woman whose daddy bought her a new face?

She knows the POWER of not living with the boring face she was born with! Now she is revered as a goddess in China because daddy made her look like Malibu Barbie! That is such an empowering lesson for all of us women living with the faces (and bodies) we were born with.

[smirkymonkey]

89. She doesn't even look like the same person!

Jeez - how much work did she have done?! That was a complete overhaul!

[SunSeeker]

90. She's the same evil person on the inside, no matter how much silicone they pump her up with.

[JI7]

97. based on the video today it looks like she has had even more work done. but then again plastic

surgery improvements often go bad with aging.

[SunSeeker]

103. She will make sure she surgically erases any sign of aging.

Like Melania did.

Because the worst thing a woman can do in Trump world is age. Thst makes her worthless to men. Because in Trump world, how a woman appears to men is how her value is based. And the way women naturally look is never good enough. Every time I see Trump's radically altered wife and daughter, I am reminded of this fact. Not exactly the most "empowering" message for women and girls.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

92. She's deffo had a chin implant, nose job, veneers, probably

a cheek implant. And that's just her face.

Her hair/extensions on the Merkel vid looks to be some weird hybrid of raggedy and greasy. Odious.

[MyNameIsKhan]

93. Her look is so artificial and her voice is irritating ... First Lady huh

[tavalon]

94. Yeah, daddy's little fuck toy does not speak for me

In other words, Ivanka, STFU.

[ashling]

96. I think I recall that she was invited by Angela Merkel

At first I thought why the hell would Merkel want to help this clueless box of rocks to such a high profile event?

Then it hit me ...

... good move Angela. well played.

[Solly Mack]

98. I think she was as well and AM probably had a motive but her presence and her words were no less

insulting.

[raccoon]

101. Recd! Great post & great responses. nt