Ivanka Trump: It’s ‘unrealistic’ for people to expect me to influence my dad

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Ivanka Trump granted an interview to the Financial Times and woooo, is this an interesting piece. It’s not that Ivanka says anything particular revealing – she does not – but it’s the way FT writes around her, and the way they get unnamed sources to talk about her. It’s well known by now that when an “unnamed source” tells a media outlet that “Jared and Ivanka say such-and-such,” the unnamed source is Jared or Ivanka. They’re fluffing their own press, creating their own myth about their influence over Emperor Baby Fists. But to what end? That’s the point of this FT piece – we can prove that Ivanka is complicit, we can prove that she’s her daddy’s precious favorite, we can prove that Baby Fists likes having her around – but that’s it. She’s not actually doing jack sh-t. She’s not actually influencing anything or anyone. She’s just floating around, leaking quotes about her influence without actually influencing anything. She’s an empty vessel, a blank slate, willing to sell out her meager beliefs for more power and influence, and then she does nothing with that power and influence. You can read the FT piece here. Some highlights:

Part of the team: “To voice dissent publicly would mean I’m not part of the team. When you’re part of a team, you’re part of a team. That doesn’t mean everyone in the White House has homogeneous views – we don’t, and I think that’s good and healthy – but that doesn’t mean we’re publicly undermining [each other] and this administration.”

On nepotism: “There is zero doubt in my mind that I am here because my father was elected. I have no problem with the acknowledgement of that. It’s a truth…. While sometimes my heart wants me to fully engage on any host of issues outside of my responsibility or expertise, I try really hard to stay in my lane and execute on the initiatives I came to DC to take on.”

On her liberal critics: “Some people have created unrealistic expectations of what they expect from me. That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him. It’s not going to happen. To those critics, shy of turning my father into a liberal, I’d be a failure to them.”

On working in the White House with Jared:
“We talk about [work]. I think it’s probably healthier to compartmentalise more. But I don’t think this job lends itself to that. I think the weight of the decisions that are made in this building are such that you can’t leave it at the door in the same way that you could in the business world. Lives are impacted in a very different way. You know when a decision is upcoming and you’re thinking through the consequences of one path or another; it does and should keep you up at night in a very different way.”

The Noise: “Whether my contribution ultimately lives up to the expectations of some of the harshest critics? Only time will tell. But I will not be distracted by the noise.”

[From Financial Times]

One, the “noise” is actually coming from two-thirds of country, the millions of people who are appalled by your father’s ignorance, nativism, bigotry, lies and white supremacy. Two, “That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him. It’s not going to happen.” But isn’t that what she sold us? That she was going to be the Baby Fists Whisperer, that she alone could soothe her father’s intemperance? Three, “I try really hard to stay in my lane.” That’s just it – her lane is nothingness. She baby-whispers about child tax credits or whatever, but she’s not DOING anything. Her “lane” is just superficiality, nepotism and hawking her own products from the White House.

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  1. Mermaid says:

    Then why are you there Ivanka??? Your father won’t condemn people chanting the Jews will not replace us!!!! How can you look your children in the eye?!?!

    • Kitten says:

      Money.

      Honestly, I’ve said it before around here but the Trump family dynamic reminds me of the extremely-rich 1% family that I work for. My boss is a Trump-like bombastic and verbally abusive jerk (except unlike Trump, he’s very intelligent and accomplished) but his kids will never ever call him out on his behavior because he pays them millions every year, pays for literally everything for them from cell phone bill to their kids’ college tuition. The lifestyle is more important to them than their integrity.

      It’s gross but not uncommon among the very wealthy.

      • Citresse says:

        Sometimes if rich children call out their parent’s bad behavior, they end up with more. I have no trouble imagining Ivanka confronting her father on a regular basis while Tiffany is purely the taker, thus no respect is earned.

      • Huh says:

        And you work for him!
        What an effing hypocrite.
        And apparently you’re dumb as a rock, too, admitting it while you profess your wokeness.
        LOL

      • Citresse says:

        I live full time in Canada. I don’t work for Trump and I don’t work for Trudeau either. They’re a pair of crooked N. American goofs. And Trump, look in the mirror……the hair isn’t any better despite holding the highest office in the land, therefore it’s hopeless.
        My advice is to try a buzz cut with a little five o’clock shadow while you really, most sincerely help everyone in the south deal with these storms and not just continue to use adverse weather for silly photo ops.

      • ELX says:

        Exactly–it’s the rich family scramble–added to which Ivana raise those three to pander to ‘The Donald.’

      • Kitten says:

        @Huh-Hey troll.

      • Christin says:

        @Huh??? Do you live in the real world, where a big chunk of employers / execs are not exactly passive wallflowers? Type A, narcisstic personality traits abound in those roles.

      • Mermaid says:

        @kitten
        Heard bots are out in force today. Maybe because a certain someone is about to testify? DT always goes on tweet storms before a big story breaks.

      • Kitten says:

        @ Mermaid-Yes I’ve noticed a lot of the botties around here lately. I wrote a long reply to my creeper friend then just deleted it because hungry trolls need not be fed.

      • swak says:

        @huh – sit down and STFU.

      • ArchieGoodwin says:

        gee Kitten, you sure get some doozies. How’d you get so lucky?

      • Tiffany :) says:

        Kitten’s comments are insightful and powerful, so it makes her a target. Good thing she isn’t intimidated by Sputnik trolls.

      • Kitten says:

        LOL I guess I’m just special like that, guys..
        My own troll. Sigh. I feel so lucky.

      • Lightpurple says:

        @Kitten, congratulations on acquiring a troll of your very own! I have one who likes to pretend she’s me

      • Pedro45 says:

        @Kitten, I bet they hate Boston sports teams too 🙂

      • Lahdidahbaby says:

        O Kitten, I SO envy you–I want a troll of my own, too! Are you going to house-train it? I hear that some of them can be taught to mix five o’clock martinis and run your bath, too!

        I wonder what I have to post here to attract my own troll.

        Let’s seeeee…

        The Trumpster has a bumster like a dumpster….?

        Or…how bout:

        Drumpf and Putin sittin in a tree
        Messin’ with our DEMOCRACY!
        First comes love
        Then comes treason,
        Then they haul Drumpf off to prison!

    • OTHER RENEE says:

      Mermaid, she and her husband are an embarrassment to the Jewish people. There are so many Jews doing so much more than they are on behalf of civil rights. There are so many Jews who show more compassion than these two. And let me tell you I don’t know any other Jew who gets dispensation to travel on Shabbat. That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. There is no such thing as a dispensation to travel unless it’s a matter of life and death/emergency. That certainly doesn’t apply to these two snowflakes.

      • Mermaid says:

        @other Renee
        Several of my best friends are Jewish. Each and every one of them cannot stand the Trumps. Because they have seen what fascism can result in. I respect all of them so much. And can I also say they are some of the most charitable and kind people I know. My husband and I just went to a fundraiser that his Jewish college buddy was made director for life. It was for a charity he is charge of that supports underprivileged children. Much respect!!!🙌

      • Lightpurple says:

        My Jewish co-worker goes on tirades about Ivanka’s adherence or lack thereof to the Orthodox faith.

      • magnoliarose says:

        You are right. We don’t like them even when my Rabbi came to dinner and reminded us to try to be charitable and compassionate about them, but no way will ever happen.
        I don’t know many Jews who would sit in that administration and be as complicit as she and Jared are every single day. Jared is even more disgusting being a descendant of heroic survivors. I question if she even considers herself Jewish or “just” a convert.

        There had been some hope maybe there would be some movement in a positive direction on the problems in Gaza, but he is too stupid to probably even find it on a map. He has further sullied his last name, again a travesty since it is the name of survivors.
        He needs to walk the Cersei walk of shame. I would throw a rotten tomato with a good hard rock embedded in the middle.

      • Trashaddict says:

        Please don’t call Jared and Ivanka “snowflakes”. The moniker doesn’t fit them, and as a proud snowflake I have decided to embrace the term for myself and they are not worthy of it. Snowflakes are cool, beautiful, unique, and nourish the earth and its inhabitants. They do none of these things.

      • jwoolman says:

        My dissertation adviser was Orthodox and consulted with his rabbi before traveling to an international conference on the Sabbath. I don’t recall him calling it a dispensation, but they certainly discussed whether or not it would qualify as a permissible deviation from their usual Sabbath protocols. The rabbi decided that it would. Rabbis study the laws in detail and listen to others discussing how things apply in today’s world, and people do consult with them to sort such things out. Things aren’t set in stone in Judaism, it’s an ongoing process.

        So maybe Jared did something like that and it ended up being reported as “dispensation”. That word sounds more Catholic than Jewish, I wonder if it came from Sean Spicer trying to explain it. Dispensation would be a very natural way of talking about such things to a Catholic.

        I have plenty of other reasons to criticize Jared and Ivanka, I’m not going to worry about how they decide to practice their religion.

      • still_sarah says:

        @ JWoolman : I am catholic and yes, I think “dispensation” is a word with roman catholic roots.

    • Ain'tNoTelling says:

      @Mermaid – THIS. It sickens me that Ivanka has committed to the tenets of the Jewish faith, yet allows her father to spew bigotry by not making emphatically strong statements against the white supremacists who support him.

      How can she look her children in the eyes, indeed.

      This family is just gross. I understand that relationships are complicated, I understand nuances, and I know many things aren’t black and white, but there is zero “in between”, or “both sides” when it comes to anti Semitism.

      • still_sarah says:

        @ Ain’tNoTelling : I was friends with a jewish guy in grad school. He was really a great guy and we were really attracted to each other. But I know that in the jewish faith, some families are concerned about their adult children marrying a non-jew who doesn’t want to convert. I was happy being a catholic and had too much respect for the jewish faith to become a “fake” jew for convenience, so I backed off. But for Ivanka to convert to judaism (there’s classes and everything) and then not speak out when her father’s supporters scream “The jews will not replace us” is appalling.

    • Helen Smith says:

      This article was misleading. Ivanka made it clear that she was discussing her fathers’s core values not issues where he could be persuaded.

      As the daughter of a man who is Trump’s age I understand. My dad (and my mom) are stubborn when it comes to their belief system. At that age they are who they are. Good luck moving them.

      Celebitchy is very anti-Trump. They love whipping you guys up and you take the bait every. single. time.

      Clickbait anyone? That is what these stories are.

      • Chelsea says:

        Celebitchy is very anti-Trump? And? So is most of America, most of the world. You say that like it’s a bad thing.?

      • still_sarah says:

        @ Helen Smith :
        Yes, old people are stuck in their ways and sometimes you just have to ignore it. My mother was from Britain and grew up when British colonies were everywhere and Britain was great (no pun). I was never able to convince her that South Africa’s apartheid system was a bad, fascist regime. She kept telling me that at least they had low crime rates and an orderly government. Ironically I never heard my mother make a racist remark or act in a racist manner. She was the classic nice little old British lady who just couldn’t bring herself to slag the colonial system that she grew up being told was great. Sigh.

        Yes, Celebitchy is anti-Trump and so am I. I come here to read critical analysis of the Trump presidency. I go to CNN mostly but also go to Fox News and Breitbart sometimes to see what those crazy people are thinking. I think it’s important not to ignore the opinions of people who disagree with me – if I do that, then there is no discourse and no healthy debate.

        Click bait? Maybe. But I can always ignore it. For example, I never click on stories about the Kardashians. Celebitchy’s web page is set up that way – you don’t like the picture and the title, you don’t click.

  2. susiecue says:

    Girl, we KNOW you influence him, the problem is you’re just as deplorable as he is!!!

    • Dinah Soar says:

      Trump sees Ivanka as a convenient narcissistic extension. When Jared has his day, so will Ivanka, and the first to boot her will be her dad. She knows it. Trump is loyal to one god and that god is himself. The only Trump kid who stands a chance at life – and now staying out of prison – is Tiffany. She was blessed with Marla, who got her away from Trump and his family’s horrors. Ivanka has never stood up to her father in her life. Have seen the pictures of him groping her. That’s not for sex; it’s a show of power and dominance, to ensure the world sees her submit to him whenever he wants her to do so. She’s typical of kids who have been tormented by conscienceless parents. Family patterns repeat. Where are Trump’s living siblings? Nowhere near him to the point many have thought he was an only child. Someday the same distance will replay itself among Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. Tiffany will be the one who comes out normal and likable, like Chelsea Clinton and Caroline Kennedy. Wouldn’t surprise me if they are her role models. Tiffany is pursuing a proper education, to earn genuine credentials, which her siblings have failed to do (except for Barron, who is still too young to make that choice).

  3. Froggy says:

    Isn’t that her job title? To advise.

  4. minx says:

    So, then, why is she an “adviser” with WH office?

    • GiBee says:

      “Babysitter” would have been too obvious, I guess.

    • lower-case deb says:

      do they even tell us what she’s advising him on? economy? politics? education? environment? when to take the pill and which one?

      food advisor? meal advisor?

      • swak says:

        Apparently on what she is interested in – equality for women, maternity/paternity/family leave – you know, things where she has made a bigly difference. Oh wait, no she hasn’t.

      • Lightpurple says:

        Syria, she’s the one who ordered the bombing, Yemen, Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, military families, education, women’s issues, China, tax reform, Saudi Arabia, Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau are her areas of “expertise.”

      • magnoliarose says:

        @lightpurple
        If she could get to JT, she would so fast.
        She is there to advise how to grab more money through the government.

  5. i don't know her says:

    I deleted my comment. it was rude. 🙁
    the situation of America due to these people just frustrates me so. SMFH.

    • Christin says:

      Or straight to a taxpayer funded state facility with guards and cute little minimalist rooms.

      • lightpurple says:

        And meal delivery straight to your secluded living quarters.

      • Heidi says:

        After her eventual release, she will probably try to write a new “book” about her martyr experience to make some money for a fresh start. And fail to find a publisher.

        But where would Barbie-goes-to-Washington actually live? By then, the Trump name will be poisonous on the entire planet – and billionaire’s private islands will all be underwater due to climate change. She will need some kind of James-Bond-Villain style home in an actual volcano or something. Maybe it is time to be nicer to Daddy’s mirror image in North Korea? They could move in next to Dennis Rodman.

      • Dee Kay says:

        @Heidi: LOL at “some kind of James-Bond-villain style home in an actual volcano”

    • Beth says:

      It’s hard not to make rude comments about this frustrating family

    • Neelyo says:

      I saw your original comment, and though gone and perhaps rude, I understand exactly how you feel.

  6. S says:

    The cluelessness is clearly genetic. Your title is Special Advisor to the President. Your job is literally to influence his decisions, not play dress up as White House Barbie.

    Ugh, this f’ing family of grifting morons are beyond exhausting. (And dangerous. And criminal. And destructive to democracy, etc.)

  7. Christin says:

    So what are taxpayers getting out of her ‘role’?

    Words. So many fluffy words that say so little… Apple and the tree.

  8. Miss Melissa says:

    So she was brought to D.C. to do nothing, then.

    I take comfort in the knowledge that misogyny ruled in her family in the end, and daddy put her idiot brothers in charge of the company instead of Ivanka. All that talk about how great she was and such a credit to him, and then he left the men in charge.

    Demoted.

    • lightpurple says:

      She was brought to DC to accept bribes from foreign leaders. She is better at money-laundering than her brothers.

    • Chrissy says:

      Ivanka’s so disgusting in every way but I think that, along with making lots of money while n the WH, she’s also there to cover for the Orange Nightmare when he becomes less than lucid and coherent or simply wanders off past his waiting car on any Tarmac the world over. She’s just a glorified hand-holder and Chief Apologist to the POTUS with an endless array of sleeveless dresses and obvious plastic surgery.

      • Belle Epoch says:

        CHRISSY I think you are spot on – he brought his kids with him to prop him up and cover for him because mentally and physically he can’t do the job. All he can do is tweet, hold rallies, and have photo op fake meetings where sycophants praise him. He farmed out all the jobs to Jared, has Ivanka sit in on all his meetings (or even take his place!), told the military to do whatever it wants, and can’t decide on anything except we hate everybody. He watches himself on TV, signs whatever they put in front of him – without reading it – and eats cake. His deterioration from the Apprentice days and earlier is shocking. He belongs in a nursing home.

  9. Jerusha says:

    Nobody ever expected anything positive out of any of you, Honey. We all knew you were low class grifters. Get busy designing(stealing designs)your orange jumpsuit.

    • Indiana Joanna says:

      So true. I never believed she was anything more than an opportunist. She takes off for a vacation every time drump does something outrageous. Nothing to do with Barbie, but do hold her space for photo ops next to world leaders. Because she so deluded about her importance.

      Grifter and the press concocted the story that she would modulate drump’s bad temperament and ignorance. Now she wants to deny it because she has done nothing more than finagle ways to promote her business through the opportunities afforded by rubbing shoulders with Congress and world leaders. Her first photo op was seating her drump rump behind the Oval Office desk between drump and Justin Trudeau. She also did that in Putin’s chair. It’s all the same to her, no sense of gravity or respect for the world and all done with a giddy sense of self impotance to exploit it all for the benefit of her cheesy fashion empire.

      • Jerusha says:

        I’m wondering if ivanka is finally experiencing a glimmer of just what a shitty person DaddyDearest is. Rotten to the core. Or maybe I’m delusional to think any trump would have any self awareness.

      • Indiana Joanna says:

        Jerusha, She seems to me someone who is hyperaware of the public’s response towards drump through social media reaction and how it affects her brand. I don’t see anything deeply introspective about her beyond her own personal interests. And I imagine she’s been stung by her NY circle and their contempt for drump.

      • lightpurple says:

        Jerusha, she doesn’t see anything wrong with him. Her reactions are towards the negative response they’re getting and she doesn’t understand it. We must all be jealous – that’s the party line of all the Trumpbots on her Twitter feed. We are jealous of her beauty, her intellect, her success and her “beautiful family.” Yes, I know, the “beauty” is fake and she barely shows average intelligence and she has no accomplishments at all.

      • hmmm says:

        Ivanka share’s daddy’s and hubby’s grandiosity. Only a deluded fool with narcissistic traits would perceive themselves as superior to and more accomplished than anyone else in the world. They use the world stage to act out their fantasies, like a child playing with a toy.

      • magnoliarose says:

        I said this elsewhere.

        She used to be a decent person, but a lot of the people who accepted her still remembered who she used to be when she attended Chapin and Rosemary. But she isn’t that person anymore and is the female version of her father but just better with her presentation. It is telling that she married the son of a crooked felon who wasn’t welcome in the social circles she had been able to travel in previously.

        She is greedy and now drunk on power using all of her manipulation skills to stay where she is even though she is a pain in the butt of the others. Entitled. That would sum her up.

  10. AnnaKist says:

    “It’s unrealistic for people to expect me to influence my dad.” Then stop posing as pretend First Lady, sitting in on important meetings, exploiting the power your specially-created position affords you, and get out of the White House, taking your insipid, creepy husband and sprogs with you, and go back to wherever and whatever you were doing before.

    • Tiffany :) says:

      YES, this!!!! Get the F out of the meetings about IMPORTANT government functions if you have no influence, because you sure as shit don’t have the qualifications, Ivanka.

      It is so terribly concerning to see so many people in positions of power who are so completely unqualified and uninformed. The entire administration has no sense of the importance of their jobs.

    • hogtowngooner says:

      EXACTLY. How people fall for her BS is amazing.

    • ClaraBelle says:

      Yes, that and THIS ” That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values “. It is obvious to all that he HAS NO CORE VALUES! Who does she think she’s kidding.

    • still_sarah says:

      “It’s unrealistic for people to expect me to influence my dad.”

      I read that and said “Then go back to Manhattan, b**ch”.

  11. Karen says:

    She’s only there to be an assistant and advisor to the President, someone who barges into meetings to say hi, and steps in for the President when he needs to step out of global meetings…

    … Why on earth would people expect her to have influence? It’s not like her position gives her access and authority. Oh. Wait.

  12. Rapunzel says:

    Oh, Ivanka. Though you could control daddy, and leaked all sorts of stories about your influence so you could get credit for his good deeds. Only it hasn’t worked out as planned, has it, Complicit?

    Ivanka’s fall from grace is one of the few bright spots in the Trump admin.

    • GiBee says:

      The brothers were always gross and graspy and barely tolerated, but Ivanka did actually make herself a place in New York society – in spite of her surname, not because of it. Sure she had money and some connections, but she did actually charm her way into places that the Trump name couldn’t buy her into. People did actually like her.

      I wonder if the reality, that she and Jared will never truly be welcomed back, has sunk in yet.
      I feel sorry for her.

      …. wait, nope, no. Not for a second do I feel sorry for her. I hope the devastation she feels at being unwelcome at certain cocktail parties is as difficult for her as dying without health insurance will be for the people her father won’t protect.

    • Lightpurple says:

      I think you are giving her far too much credit. She wanted people to think she was far more liberal and would sway him so that moderates, especially moderate women would support him. It is just branding and packaging to sell the product. A classic bait and switch. She supports him and his loathsome views totally. She sees nothing wrong with his behavior. Her idea of “advocacy” is to pose for pictures with groups whose funding is being gutted.

    • magnoliarose says:

      @lightpurple

      I agree, but I don’t think she has an ideology at all. She agrees with Tange for selfish reasons not because she does. There is no heart or conscience, and she proves it over and over. Her beliefs are convenient to position herself as a particular type of woman and distance herself superficially from her father. She hoped that would be enough for her to maintain her image but she isn’t as clever as she thinks. That family has this belief that they are above it all and smarter than anyone else in the room. The Wonder Twins have been made by their parents to think they have qualities they just don’t possess. Neither of them is used to being called out or exposed because they have never played on the big stage where smoke and mirrors only work so long.

      She ran around all over the city calling herself an empowered working mother who made it on her smarts and people believed her. That was her schtick, but it has been revealed now along with all of her shady business practices.

      Finally, her last name caught up with her.

    • still_sarah says:

      @ Gibee : yes, I wonder if liberal-leaning, Democratic supporting Manhattan will take them back when this all ends. But anything can happen – I mean Donald Trump is in the White House.

  13. grabbyhands says:

    When you’re part of the team, you’re part of the team, so I can’t publicly dissent because I’m on that team. Except I’m also not on that team, I’m just here listening or whatever and I say stuff to my dad and I know that I get to do that because he’s my father, so I know I have influence except I have no influence, I’m just there.

    So people need to quit expecting things of me because I don’t have influence and NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT, okay??

    Here’s a picture of me with my kids and my newest designer gown.

    • Christin says:

      If things were going well, she’d be singing a different tune. “WE are doing so many great things!”

      On that note, how is wonder boy husband doing with all his assignments? Are we closer to peace and all that? (Crickets…)

    • emma33 says:

      Spot on. She uses bigger words than her father, but they still mean nothing. I snorted out loud about three or four times just reading those excerpts.

      Can you imagine the conversations she and Jared have when they just can’t sleep at night because they are so weighed down with the heavy burden of leading the country?! Oh the complicity.

    • hmmm says:

      Daddy got me this position so I’m being a good girl.

  14. Esmom says:

    Wow, so much garbage to sift through, where to even start. How about if you’re an advisor to the POTUS, you actually advise him? Otherwise, gtfo.

    I didn’t think it was possible to despise her even more but here we are. She’s as despicable as her dad, probably more so. He doesn’t even know what a menace he is but she seems fully aware…and yet she expects a pass for standing by and doing nothing. My blood is boiling.

  15. littlemissnaughty says:

    Work? What work? Tell us, Princess, what is it you two actually do in the White House??? What is your husband’s job description except fixing the Middle East? What do YOU do if you’re not your father’s babysitter?

    Also, this family has crappy hair genes. My god their collective heads always look so sh*tty. Even with tons of money you can’t buy good hair unless you get a wig.

  16. Beth says:

    I still have no idea what her job is,or why she’s in the White House. I’d think Trumps perverted, filthy obsession with his daughter might make it easier for her to influence him. She was the one who told him to shoot all those missiles at Syria

  17. Enough Already says:

    Go away budget Lisa Kudrow. Go away.

    • trh says:

      Lisa Kudrow is a talented, intelligent, and accomplished actor, writer, and producer.

      Ivanka Trump is a pet giraffe.

      • jwoolman says:

        Lisa Kudrow! She should play Ivanka on SNL!

        Jared can be played by a stick or anything else inanimate. But Lisa needs to play Ivanka.

  18. lightpurple says:

    Oh, Princess Nagini, this is nothing but an attempt to salvage your brand which is looking a bit tarnished and dented and a bit smelly lately. This is nothing but an attempt to separate yourself from him in the minds of those who believed you could be a moderating influence because you TOLD them you would be. However, many of us saw right through you from the start. You are a corrupt snake whose purpose in life is to steal and promote yourself and I’m fed up with you and your corrupt ways. BTW, honey, advocates for women and girls actually fight for equal pay, access to health care, reproductive freedom, and safe schools. You have come out in opposition to all those things and seem to think a photo op with you should count as “advocacy.” It doesn’t.

  19. I mean she has a point. He’s just going to do what he wants at the end of the day regardless. I imagine she advises him and he does the opposite

    • Enough Already says:

      Lol. Wait. What?

    • lightpurple says:

      I imagine she is just fine with every single thing he says and does. Her only thoughts are how it will profit her, profit the family, profit the brand. And then she trots out the kids or pulls a photo op with the impacted group and we’re supposed to think how lovely.

    • Indiana Joanna says:

      Grifter Barbie definitely acted and spoke in a way to tout her influence over drump. Now that she has proven to be pointless and eager to run off on vacation every time drump does something horrible, she wants to change the story to never intending to influence him. She’s as hideous and false as her daddy.

    • magnoliarose says:

      You are right, and it is time for her and Crooked J to leave DC and take their grift elsewhere.

  20. Tiffany says:

    She leaving. There is nothing not calculating about this trick. They packing up and heading back to NYC. They think going back to NYC everything will be the same but people remember and their phones will not be blowing up for invites.

    • Dee Kay says:

      This is the outcome I am really hoping for: Javanka’s being shunned after they move back to NYC. I think they can let all of this D.C. criticism totally roll off of them, and as far as “audience” goes, well, yes they have many more haters now but they still have huge fans as well (morons who only worship a thin blonde with adequate looks and money, but still, they worship Ivanka). So Beltway insiders can’t really hurt them and millions of Americans can’t really hurt them. But New Yorkers *can* hurt them. The NY social scene can make them feel pain. It’s a mean girl society made up of some of the wealthiest ppl in the world, and they can really burn this useless duo. I hope they do.

      • hmmm says:

        I live in hope. It’s really clear now that they hobnob with mobsters and thugs, not even fit for the demi-monde. I hope high society cuts them to the quick….with exquisite finesse, and treats them like the arrivistes they are. I would relish such tales.

    • Ksenia says:

      Ugh, the humanity! No more invites to high society’s “all the right people’s” parties?!?! Look, I loathe Ivanka the Terrible as much as anyone here, but even for her, that potential repercussion seems just a LITTLE too harsh, can we agree? After all, the woman will be jobless (well, still) and she actually definitively *exists* to dress up in $5,000 shoes and $20,000 gowns, and make small talk among the elite of NYC, and be admired by the superficial in the world for her attractive ever-smiling veneers and her other surgically created “beauty:” what else has she to live for, seriously, but her high status parties? Surely Fate would not be *quite* so cruel to deprive her of her life’s only passion? That would be as cruel as allowing the country’s impoverished population to live and die w/out health insurance…or to exile immigrants out of the only country they know and belong in…or to banish women from control of their own bodies…or not allowing refugees who come from dangerous, war ravaged nations to enter the U.S…No, *surely* fate and humanity itself could not be that *callous*, that cold, that she should suffer so tremendously as to be banned from her glamorous parties—-? I mean, THAT cruel of a world is not worth living in….

  21. Sadezilla says:

    This quote makes her sound more aware than I would have given her credit for:
    “I think the weight of the decisions that are made in this building are such that you can’t leave it at the door in the same way that you could in the business world. Lives are impacted in a very different way.”

    Lives ARE impacted, and TemperTantrump and company’s policies are hurting people in a very real way, Princess Nagini. Does she understand what she’s saying? I’m guessing she doesn’t believe it and is saying it to appease the peasants.

    Also, not to thread jack but the Rethugs are trying to pass ACA repeal again. There goes my sanity xO

  22. Svea says:

    He is your BOSS. Your job is to influence him.
    On another point, how ’bout if you call hom”Daddy” (quoted the Donald himself here) like when you asked to attend his speech in North Dakota?

  23. Darla says:

    Shut up Ivanka. I never bought this fool’s act.

  24. Cee says:

    The hair bleach is messing with her neurons.

  25. Louisa says:

    So this “advisor” to the president, has in the last few days said she doesn’t get involved in politics and she shouldn’t be expected to influence the president. Okay got it.

    I’ve so had it with this princess. I just watched Hillary on Rachel last night and I am so angry, so distressed that this brilliant, accomplished, qualified woman is not in the White House, but half-wit barbie is.

  26. third ginger says:

    “To voice dissent publicly would mean I’m not part of the team.” No, Ivanka. To voice dissent publicly would mean you are a loyal, concerned AMERICAN.

    • emma33 says:

      Yes..and if you’re on a team that you feel a need to publically dissent with, then maybe you shouldn’t be on that team!

  27. jferber says:

    In a democracy, there’s always room for dissent. That’s one major way we differ from totalitarianism and dictatorship. A Kenyan quotation: “A leader who doesn’t listen to advice is not a leader,” (I got that from my favorite new show, Insecure).

  28. lucy2 says:

    “To voice dissent publicly would mean I’m not part of the team.” No. Voicing dissent would mean standing up for your principles and beliefs, especially when you are standing up against racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, destruction of the environment, the health care system, etc. You want to be part of the team? COMPLICIT. Remember that when the criminal charges are filed.

    “There is zero doubt in my mind that I am here because my father was elected.” Well…duh.

  29. Stacy Reardon says:

    “There is zero doubt in my mind that I am here because my father was elected.”

    I guess it’s nice that she’s acknowledging it, but saying it like this almost implies that there’s an idea circulating somewhere that she might be in the White House on her own merits somehow?
    Of course she’s only there because of her father. There’s not really a need to even state it! If she had an ounce of integrity (ha!) she would just step down and go back to shilling shoes.

  30. Scout says:

    Just a reminder that Javanka has a combined net worth of close to $1 billion so this isn’t even financially motivated to get daddy’s money – they really are just terrible, terrible bigoted fascists on a power trip in a misguided attempt at their own self-glorification. Sure, daddy’s money will increase their net worth which is catnip to these greedy twits but they could easily provide a wealthy lifestyle for even their great-grandchildren if they grew a spine and went rogue.

    • hmmm says:

      Jared is in debt up the wazoo after acquiring 666. I bet he’s as rich as Drumpf. LOL

    • magnoliarose says:

      They aren’t worth that much. Those are lies and wrapped up in real estate deals that aren’t stable. Real estate developers who are successful in New York want nothing to do with them. Jared is also a slum lord trying to jump up to the New York bigly leagues but is dumb. There is dirty money there, and I am sure Mueller will expose that.

  31. Humbug says:

    She looks like a mongoose. Why is her neck getting longer? To make us think she is elegant, i guess.

  32. why? says:

    The only reason the press thought that Ivanka was a good influence on her father was because that was the narrative that Ivanka leaked to them. Remember how Ivanka and then her brother leaked that it was Ivanka’s idea to drop the bomb on Syria because she was moved by those photos of the kids? Or the time Jared and Ivanka leaked that the King of Lies and Fake News didn’t take away protections for LGBTQ because they told her father not to do it.

    Why are we seeing these positive glowing pieces on Ivanka? Eric and his wife had a son the other day and Ivanka just couldn’t handle that her brother was getting more attention than her. I thought that she was going to announce that she was pregnant, but instead she just went and paid several blogs to write something nice about her. Ivanka is just like her father. She wants all attention on herself and will do anything to do.

  33. Alix says:

    She should not have gotten into this in the first place. No one requires the president’s daughter to be involved. Now she is stuck because no matter what she does (or doesn’t do) she can’t win. Melania is smarter than her daughter-in-law in that she tries to stay out of her husband’s business as much as she can and only say or do anything when absolutely necessary. It’s best for everyone- for her, for her husband and for the people. I’m guessing Trump told Ivanka that he counted on her so she couldn’t get out of it if she wanted to stay on his good side. Melania just doesn’t give a shit, you can see that. Both women are complicit but at least one of them has enough brain cells.

    • Trashaddict says:

      Melania is cunning. She is not smart. She dresses pretty well most of the time, has reasonably good manners (except for the hand-swatting incident, but I do love that she did it). But she is still complicit. So I can’t forgive her, even if she is not as malignant as the others. She is just a passive hanger-on to a mind-numblingly obnoxious man.

  34. Lori says:

    Im wondering if Kelly lets her drop in and out of her “Daddy”s office just like before, or if she has to pretend to do work all day at her dask.

  35. adastraperaspera says:

    It’s ironic that the Financial Times is providing a forum for one of the world’s most nefarious financial criminals. Ivanka Trump is 35 years old. Not only is she a fraud in her own right, she is helping her father commit treason. There is no way all her little “vacations” have been anything but missions where she couriers information to hostile nation states on behalf of her father.* She is part of a conspiracy. I think she’s doing this interview to lay the groundwork for her legal defense, which will be her claiming complete ignorance.

    *In an interview with The Hill — President-elect Donald Trump told reporters…that messages “should be sent via courier like in the old days” to ensure security. “It’s very important, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old fashioned way because I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe…You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier.”

  36. Lua says:

    “That my presence in and of itself would carry so much weight with my father that he would abandon his core values and the agenda that the American people voted for when they elected him”…….. I’m sorry, I must be confused. I thought Hilary won the popular vote? 😒

    • ClaraBelle says:

      Also, it is apparent that her father has NO core values; unless you count “getting richer” and creating chaos.

  37. lower case lois says:

    If Ivanka thinks people have “unrealistic expectations of her” then my question to Ivanka is : If you have no power and we have to high expectations of you in the White House, then why do you have an Office in the White House , have National Security Clearance, attend the G20 summit , meet with top world leaders without your father and can break into your father’s office, when he has meetings with top national leaders to say hello? You have placed those expectations there ,not the American people.

  38. Whatever Gurl says:

    Is her clothing line still up and running? I saw a pair of her heels in the clearance aisle at Nordstrom Rack. You couldn’t pay me to wear her stuff.

  39. Shannon says:

    Your ‘lane’ is sticking your name on shitty clothes that other people make and other people design. *shrug* look, had my daddy handed that to me on a silver platter I can’t say I wouldn’t work with it (although there are clearly changes I’d make but I digress). Sweetheart, you’re so far out of your lane it’s not even funny and so is your dad.

  40. jwoolman says:

    People expect her to influence her father on certain issues only because she kept telling us that she would. It’s only recently that she’s backing away from that idea, making people wonder why the heck she has an office in the White House and if she is just a babysitter to keep him from exploding too much and to remember meetings for him and read to him. She keeps bursting into scheduled meetings in an odd way.

    I’m surprised Ivanka and Jared are still in DC. I thought they would have packed up and left by now, using the kids’ schooling as an excuse. They set up for that eventuality a while back when they said they would re-evaluate staying in DC within six months.

    Jared is at real risk, I think. He very likely has been engaged in too many shady encounters for financial reasons, and his failure to disclose foreign contacts multiple times should have resulted in a revoked security clearance long ago. Has Trump been overturning such decisions? The President does seem to have the power to decide what is classified and what is not and who can know about it.

    • magnoliarose says:

      Jared is going down. Deservedly. I am beginning to think she is too.

      What you are saying here I agree with 100 percent. What is the point of her?

  41. Wren says:

    Then why does she have an office in the White House and partake of taxpayer funded travel? She is as much of a con artist as her dad.

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