The woman was born with a platinum spoon in her mouth and given every concievable advantage: from a rich, indulgent father and a wealthy family business she could fall into, to multiple nannies for her children to endless plastic surgeries to look like her father's ideal woman.... One would think, given the family's purported wealth, that she could find better ways to spend her time than peddling clothing & jewelry...say philanthropy ? Most women I know have visibly shuddered at the thought of buying her merchandise and certainly do not aspire to be anything like her.... Now Michelle Obama, that's someone to admire...
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Ivanka is talented, beautiful and extremely smart. The enemy, however, is a huge wall of bias holding her back from achieving success in any of her aspirations. The Hate Trump NYT and the other media sources have ban together to stop any pursuits that she advances in the Make America Great arena. You know who you are and you are not fooling many. Ivanka has God given talents that could be used to benefit her country, but you have chosen to discredit all her efforts to make a difference. Out of jealously and hate for her father you have shackled her.
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Now she can really devote herself fulltime to complicity.
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Wow, I thought I was going to get a nice snarky take on the nepotism in the White House and instead I got a lovely reminder of what a horrible, clueless jerk Senator Marco Rubio can be. So his plan for funding paid family leave is to have desperately poor people, you know, the ones who don't have access to paid family leave, borrow against their future Social Security benefits? These would be the same 21% of Americans who don't have any retirement savings put away and are probably going to have nothing but their Social Security benefits to rely on? And this is a proposal that has "fans" on Capitol Hill? Please, everyone, get out and VOTE these monsters out in November!
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Perhaps Ivanka could try teaching what "abstinence only" means to her father.
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The woman selling those “nude”, ten-inch stilettos is going to save women’s rights?
Like all the Trumps, she’s just looking out for #1 (and only).
Plus, she has tacky bad taste—Trump Tower in shoe-form.
Good riddance.
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Ivanka is as much a fashion entrepreneur as her stepmother is a speechwriter.
My father was a sexual predator, too, Ivanka. I was so ashamed of him that I ceased communications for his last 27 years. You, however, are an enabler with a capital E.
No offense, but I wouldn't be you for a gazillion dollars.
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Is that just Ivanka Trump US or Ivanka Trump everywhere?
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Must be a juicy lobbyist position available. Something high-paying and vacuous, very Trumpian.
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I realize the Times is known as The Grey Lady. Still, was it absolutely necessary to water down Trump's history with women by describing it as "colorful"? Sleazy, maybe. Contemptible? How does that sound? Criminal? Disgusting? You get the picture. And I wonder how the women he's grabbed, thrown against the wall, etc. feel when reading that the assault they endured was "colorful".
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Like her clothing line, which was all foreign made by exploited labor, Ivanka has failed America. Good riddance to her company which was the antithesis of the Trump regime’s call for American manufactured goods, made by American laborers paying a living wage.
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She'd have more success if she simply goes back to full-time money laundering. After all laundry is typically woman's work, and she did seem to have a talent for it.
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I was shopping at Lord and Taylor a few weeks ago and had the misfortune to touch an Ivanka Trump dress. I recoiled as I saw the name sewn in the neckline. I walked over to two sales clerk's and informed them that though at a distance, the dress was cute, the brand was soiled and tainted and that I would not purchase any clothing of hers even if they were on sale for a dollar. The two sales ladies told me in confidence that they agreed. Whatever panache she may have had has been destroyed by her creepy father and the loyalty he demands of her and kin.
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I'd rather Ivanka try to right her company rather than have anything to do with our country's policies...
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IT as a successor to her daddy? Contesting as republican.
You got to be kidding. It will take at least another century for Republicans to evolve to be able to accept a woman as equal.
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Ivanka Trump received “permanent Top Secret” security clearance as of May 1. It was unclear whether Trump would obtain such a clearance because the FBI was investigating her international business deals involving the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver.
Incredibly, she can now “sit in on high level White House meetings” and access the president’s daily intelligence briefing and other foreign intelligence materials. Advising her daddy on matters of international security has to be a far more interesting job than marketing new shoes to the fashion world. Personally I feel more secure walking in her stilettos than knowing that she is walking freely every day into the Oval Office.
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Princess Ivanka imagines that she is part of a royal house and is in line for the throne.
The crash of her mediocre line has been a powerful signal to the family that it would be best to stick with plain old graft and money laundering to fill the family treasury. Straight up retail is just too much work.
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It recently occurred to me that Kate Middleton who has two nannies, one each for George and Charlotte, has taken a four month maternity leave. She is thus enabled to give her children a very strong foundation of family life in preparation for this lives of public duties. But it also enables her to be playful and joyful and participate in the precious , priceless early years of her family. This is a human necessity and a human right. What quality of life is sacrificed if children are not given a strong family life in their early years. I think the answer is is the devaluation and diminution of individuals leading to violence and despair in it's forms of suicide and drug addiction. Support the caregivers. Oxygen to the parents first. If people are stressed with two job households and two job parents something has to give.
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Well made points, and telling that they have the proverbial snowball's chance of being tackled by Ms. Trump. The last clause of the final sentence of this editorial was all that actually needed to be said.
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I wonder if she'll now be drawing a paycheck (paid for by us) now that one of her revenue streams will stop.
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If the height of absurdity has been reached with the attitude to which the Opinion alludes, then IT (Ivanka Trump, not Information Technology) should perhaps look elsewhere for a source of employment for her talents. A change of emphasis, for instance, from direct female concerns to, say, the prospects for global nuclear disarmament, an issue which indirectly affects everyone, might be an opportunity for her to exercise her talents in such a way as to make an appeal to certain countries where not only are the chances of friction between governments high, but also where the plight of women, indeed of much of the population, is quite hazardous. Perhaps women feel the threat of a live nuclear confrontation more than men, the latter of which seem at times almost soothed by the prospect. As an avenue to peace, such a diplomatic effort would garner many kudos, especially if it was to be successful in such places as India, of which she has some direct experience, and Pakistan, the former's livid rival. If her presence could stimulate both sides to accede to an appeal for rational discourse with the aim of accomplishing the ridding of their nations of nuclear weapons for all time, then I think she could find herself in terms of an inestimable contribution to world history, rather than languishing on the, shall we say, propagandistic side of things.
@Disinterested Party
You're implying that she has talents--indeed talents of a quite impressive nature. It seems to me that she has exhibited no talent beyond showing herself off. Like her husband, who has the job of making peace between Israel and the Palestinians. How's that working out?
Just goes to show that for important jobs, you need a person with experience, intelligence, and talent. I'm afraid none of the family has any of the above.
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Paid family leave that's in fact a loan against one's own Social Security? How is that "paid?"
I'm re-reading 1984.
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A more plausible explanation is that she has inherited the business acumen and smarts from her father ... you know ... the affinity for ventures that end up in bankruptcy.
She and her company are so bad that more than 3 dozen product and licence approvals from Chinese government have not helped her salvage her brand.
How comforting it is to know that she will employ her skills as Senior Adviser to her father.
God save our country.
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Where are the children your dad and sessions separated from their parents?
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The mistaken premise of this article is that Ivanka Trump wants to work hard at anything. Or that she has views where her commitment and passion are larger than her ambitions and financial interests. She won't cross Daddy, and she doesn't appear to have the leadership skills or the brainpower to survive on her own.
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She can now focus on her own run for president; how totally appalling that thought is.
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Like her father, Ivanka Trump is unqualified to be in the White House. The difference is that whether or not you agree with Donald J. Trump, it is possible to list the things he's done since moving into the Oval Office.
But Ivanka? She Washington Barbie,® forever in the same static pose, the same plastic smile on her face. The only thing I know she's doing is swanning around in glamorous outfits the way Washington Barbie® would.
So forgive me if I'm skeptical of Ivanka's breathy pronouncement that her focus will be "the work" she is "doing" in the nation's capital. Hers is a tired banana-republic act, nepotism in service of vanity, hers and her father's.
The fact Ivanka is not drawing a salary does not relieve her of the obligation to disclose her agenda, if not her White House calendar, to the public. What, exactly, is the "work" she's pursuing, how many hours a week is she putting into it, how is she going about it and, most importantly, what does she have to show for the 1 year and 186 days since her father took the oath of office?
As it is, I see this as nothing more than Ivanka's best-ever post-gap-year gap-year internship. Why, she even got to take the stage with world leaders!
I cannot wait until this family of under qualified grifters has vacated 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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@A. Davey She's a socialite. Just goes to events, drinks expensive wine and flirts to politicians.
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All of these entitled people. From our politicians (who will retire on our dime) to the one percenters like IT all think they know what's best for real Americans. I find that abhorrent and a slap in the face for millions of working poor. Mr. Rubio a word to you: SHUT UP and take your ideas back to the dark ages, and as for IT, those words are unfit to print.
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Vacuous, self serving, grandiose delusions. Yep, she's a chip off the old block for sure.
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She will focus on her role as an "advisor"? On a strength of knowledge and experience in which matters? Or just using her position closest to daddys ear? When daddy is removed or voted out of the office who will need Ivanka's advice?
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Amazed that no bankruptcy was attached to the shuttering of Ivanka's business since that's the Trump MO in business -- bankruptcy (casinos), outright failure (vodka, ties), fraud on a grand scale (Trump University) or a scam involving condos never built.
They are all grifters. She has some new scam planned.
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Dear NYT:
The Times editorial board actually makes some good points about positive public service roles that Ivanka could play in her father's administration.
But this editorial s not at all about high-minded advice, though it sort of pretends to be.
Your mean-spirited, supercilious tone reveals a a depth of malice that defeats the arguments you make -- turning this missive, too, into yet another anti-Trump hate-filled screed, even somewhat justifying Trump's attacks upon The Times as an "enemy," not just an important news source that won't back down in a fight.
This arch dripping hatred of Trump is so self-evident, and animates so many of your Trump stories, that it cannot be ascribed to anything other than an institutional bias of the first order. It may give your readers a boost of adrenochrome -- and fill your coffers as NYT advertisers target them -- but it is undercuts any pretense that you are fulfilling your role as journalists, speaking truth to power.
What I hear, story after story, day after day, sounds more like the Resistance -- speaking hate to power.
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Is daddy getting ready to add a tariff on cheap Chinese clothing imports. I wonder if people in the know are profiting from Trump's erratic and spontaneous tariff announcements,
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There are very coincidences in the Trump world. Cohen releasing the tape (tapes). Closing down her brand, is pre-emptive damage control. Stay tuned.
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Ivanka is leaving fashion for politics?! Well the boycott really backfired in our faces! How much did you say those shoes were again?
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“When we first started this brand, no one could have predicted the success that we would achieve" Ivanka Trump
Is she really referring her clothing brand to her political brand?
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The highest public service that Javanka could perform for the collective good of the nation would be for them to, as quickly as possible, leave Washington and return to their previous life as members of the tabloid glitterati in New York. Their nepotistic experiment in the White House has predictably been a colossal failure and deep embarrassment. Don’t they miss the mindless dress-ups at all the opening night galas in NYC?
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I don't actually believe she's getting out of the business. The brand name is a big problem but there is no reason why she can't do business under another name. The Trump's do everything in secrecy and I'd bet they've already set up something that will allow her to continue to do what she does. They set up shell companies to pay off porn stars and playmates, why not a shell company to conduct this business as well. She just received 13 new trademarks from China for fashion, housewares and books. You can be sure she'll be taking advantage of that. After all, 'taking advantage' is the real family business.
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Very amusing list of to-do errands for Ms. Ivanka Trump, as if she really intends to accomplish anything at all in Washington DC. Her knock-off, made-in-a-sweatshop, morally and ethically tainted rags weren't selling, so she's using her "duties" in the White House as cover to fold up the business. Don't expect anything at all from the Trump grifter clan other than monetization opportunities and self-promotion, with a side of treason, and you won't be disappointed.
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Buy it up and put it away. She is a name, in political circumstances that could become historically significant. Would buy up the fixtures too and put them away with any namesake. NY pop culture in fashion, with extensive name branding. This will be more valuable than most people believe today.
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The Trumps know how to "sell", steal taxpayer money, evade taxes and pose. That's about it.
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So, when dad's a billionaire & hubby's a scion, you can just go snap out a multi-dept. fashion-brand, hire one the best sales directors on earth to shmooze the brand into all the majors, gain the status & brand-image the rest of us would take a lifetime to build...
All because you're -- bored?
Then if in a few years the business gets -- inconvenient, you just go shut it all down, fire everybody & skip town?
People, save your shekels for designers who actually create, who devote their lives & talent & integrity to the hands-on immense work & pace of maintaining today's brutal show & collection cycle, who have talent & vision to build a design-brand.
Be highly skeptical of rich-kids who decide to pursue status of a fashion brand for fun, or to prove something, & suddenly appear everywhere, trading on their fat-cat family name & money.
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There was a brilliant FX show called The Riches, starring Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard, about two Irish Traveler grifters who, accendentally by being up to no good, end up with a mansion and high-profile careers, and then spend the rest of the narrative arc trying to figure out how the non-grifter world works and how to still be grifters in it.
I always think of that show when I think of the Trump family.
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@Frank
That was a great show. And yes you've nailed the Trumps perfectly.
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Who really cares what this woman does or think. Like most children of the money class, they live off the wealth and that gives them an identity. Without her families riches, she'd be like every other 30 something mom, fearing a future filled with uncertainty for her kids and husband as the deck is stacked against the middle class and industries transform to highly educated service economies. Her junk fashion lines did nothing for our society except create clutter on the sale rack.
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"one big grift"
5 stars for that one.
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You're asking way too much of
Ivanka. All of the things you are suggesting she do are things people with a sense of doing good for others would do. All Ivanka cares about is being in the spotlight herself. I don't know why being rich and having a clothing line and having a stake in her father's real estate business weren't enough for her.
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So Ivanka plans to actually do some work in Washington?
Fascinating.
Let's see, for the past 19 months she is best known for pretending to be so important that she took the President's seat along side World Leaders at the G-20 table in Hamburg.
Oh, and she also wrote a self-aggrandizing book (Women Who Work) revealing her expertise in such "artless jargon" as ... "women benefit immeasurably by architecting their lives in a way that honors and supports their relationships and pursuits outside of work.”
Such insight.
So what critical global crisis will you work on, Ivanka, now that Washington finally has your focus?
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"Nor will it soothe those who think that top presidential advisers should possess some qualification beyond having inherited DNA from the president, or being married to someone who did." Change "from the president" to "with the president" and, my God, the Times is finally addressing the Kennedy Administration.
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Bravo, Editorial Board! Bravo! Though I was partial to how Samantha Bee said it originally a few weeks ago.
Point made, nonetheless.
I'm sure Sam approves.
And I'm sure Ivanka will accomplish just as much for women's rights as her father. Feckless indeed.
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Don't hold your breath thinking she will stand up to Dad for anything.
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So because Ivanka is a woman, the only issues that the Times can suggest for her to address are gender-identity issues? While there are important women's issues out there, the potential fall of the Republic might be a more urgent place for Ivanka to start.
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@Steve
Ivanka is the woman who announced that “women’s issues” are what she wanted to focus on.
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It is strange that a person who claims to be a "champion of female empowerment" made nary a discernible peep about the recent border infant/child separations taking place. Of course, any objection would go against dad's master plan, so she pulls back from speaking out for the mothers involved.
We have enough mouse types in the GOP already, so it is my wish Ivanka also publicly shuts down her losing, non-effective role as a white house adviser.
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"Advisor" to Trump, a man who does not take advice, is an oxymoron. If Ms. Trump wants to be "taken seriously," she needs to start by taking a serious job. "Advisor" to her father is not it.
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Ivanka's false motive about shuttering her business to allow her to more fully concentrate on her duties in Washington is laid bare by her officially walking away from its management after the inauguration. If she really did step aside back then it would not have had any impact on her government job. So this was nothing but self serving spin. Now if we could only hear from her about what, if anything, real that she is doing in Washington... I didn't think so.
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As they say in the Trump family "daddy didn't raise no fool" , you have to know she will use this to her advantage. We will end up making her/ them even richer. She is Trump in drag. This apple didn't fall far from the tree, she holds on tight.
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I've been reading about how she thinks she'll be running for President one day. I'd move to the UK or Canada immediately if she wins.
Luckily, I think this disaster of a Presidency is only a blip and while it will take years to get back to normal, most of us will come back to our senses.
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"I'd move to the UK or Canada immediately if she wins."
With Donald Trump in office, why are you waiting?
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Ivanka and the Trumps in general perfectly embody both the hollow nature and inherent dangers in buying into our modern ideas of branding.
Reputation used to be something that by nature was based on experience, and years of it. Now instead of a reputation, you simply need to build a Brand; instead of working hard to actually be something, you just put effort into appearing as something. Trump, Inc. is nothing but brand—and Ivanka, Inc. just a subsidiary of this tendency.
The long-term problem is that we're teaching our children that self-branding is not only OK, but actually *necessary* to survive in our modern world. Brand ME becomes an imperative, a prerequisite for success that at best is a fundamental misunderstanding and misrepresentation of personal value, at worst a call to outright self-inflicted personal identity fraud. Not someone stealing your identity, but living a lie by choice.
I wonder if in some utopian future we'll look back and realize that the most destructive forces we unleashed on the world are thermonuclear weapons, sugar and the social-media branding imperative.
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So Ivanka is closing her apparel business due to poor business, despite Kellyanne Conway, in a breathtaking violation of the ethics code, exhorting American women on Fox & Friends, to -
“Go buy Ivanka’s stuff, - I hate shopping and I’m going to go get some myself today. This is a wonderful line. I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online.”
When women will no longer selflessly agree to help the bottom line of a millionaire “woman’s advocate” like Ivanka Trump, what is the world coming to?
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Ivanka's only interest, like the rest of her family's including Jared, is to make money regardless of all else.
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Ivanka Trump cannot speak out in any meaningful way on issues that empower women and improve their lives.Her father is wrong on all of these issues-he has spent his life disrespecting women.She would not dare to anger her father so she is left with no voice and now no company.
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Does this mean the Chinese will not be getting as much as they hoped for in return for the trademarks they gave her?
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I would have preferred if she kept the clothing line and left Washington with her equally useless husband.
She should be more like Tiffany.
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Well a look at her tax returns since her daddy moved into the White House might shed some light on why the shuttering of her clothing line business is not such a big deal. They are making money hand over fist selling access to the White House and in Trump Industries illegal profiting off this Presidency!
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In a move to improve efficiency in the White House, the Trump Organized Crime Family decided to reduce the number of mannequins it is dressing down to one...Melania Trump.
Furthermore, the First Lady will be allowed to wear ensembles costing more than the average worker’s annual wages only once each week.
Vogue magazine has declared a national day of mourning.
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Ivanka just did what her father does with losing investments, cut and run. No noble purpose.
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As the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall too far from the horse.
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The economic impact and job loss resulting from closing down the Ivanka brand is miniscule. The political impact of Ivanka's honorary position in the White House is equally microscopic.
In truth, the only notable issue here is nepotism and emoluments accruing because of her proximity to her father.
However, the effects of tariffs on farmers, business owners, employers and their employees as well as the effect of stringent immigration policies on the availability of workers in agriculture and service industries--now those are issues.
Big ones.
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Wouldn't a normal person want to try something challenging to demonstrate a level of competence that doesn't flow directly from the family's largess?
None of the Trumps has ever faced a problem they couldn't solve with money.
Until now.
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"... try something challenging ..."
In case you haven't noticed, working in government is VERY "challenging", and so is the fashion business.
See, for example:
H&M, a Fashion Giant, Has a Problem: $4.3 Billion in Unsold Clothes
By Elizabeth Paton
March 27, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/business/hm-clothes-stock-sales.html
@BJU: She had no problem. Her father staked her and hooked her up with business connections and political leaders, and she still failed to make it work.
How interesting that someone who wants to take family leave would have to borrow from future Social Security benefits.
Congress borrows from the Social Security trust fund everyday. Does this confirm that members of Congress really aren't working?
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Another self-made plutocrat bites the dust.
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Ivanka wouldn't have a business in the first place if it weren't for her dad. And because of her dad, her business is ruined. The arc is complete. She should go home and shut up.
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I'm sure she's already planning her next con. She's a Trump, after all.
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RIP=Retreat in Perpetuity is my take on RIP. I'm in favor of "daddy's little girl"n to just go away and take care of her children, or maybe even her brother's children while he cavorts with ms Guilfoiyle. The trumps ("and all who sail in them") are truly a national disaster.
RIP could be the start of an interesting haiku
Runnnig, Ivanka perplexed
.............................................
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Is Daddy's girl capable of succeeding in the real world?
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"...Or, if even that is asking too much, maybe just have him stop giving preference to abstinence-only education over more effective programs."
Hahaha!! What a joke..
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Where any of you as condescending towards Chelsea Clinton when she joined her mother on the campaign trail; what exactly were her qualifications?
Both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are very well-meaning, hard working and successful entrepreneurs ; read up on them instead of passing cheap and unfounded judgments on them.
And if you really want to delve into the realm of qualifications, how about critiquing the former president; what exactly were his admirable achievements ? Community organizer? Mediocre attorney? Senator who voted “present” most of the time?
And finally, I suggest you do some honest research about President Trump and his contribution to women.
You could start by learning that Trump was an incredibly fair promoter of women in his business; as reflected by the number of female executives and their pay level .
Honest critique is fine, but unfounded and snarky accusations belittle the accuser, not the accused.
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@NRI
Chelsea Clinton didn't ever have a job in the White House and if you don't think she didn't take a beating while she lived in the White House as a child then you weren't paying attention.
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@Galcurious
Apparently you’re not paying attention; I’m refering to the politically active Chelsea, not the child...apples for apples
It’s really time to cease talk of “personal enrichment” by Trump and his family. These are smart, experienced business people. They knew that relinquishing operational control of their various enterprises and the inability to pursue new opportunities during Trump’s Administration would result in financial losses.
Even casual observation can see that there has been a decline in their net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, personal annual income aside. It may not seem like a sacrifice to the average American, but there has been a substantial financial cost to the family for their public service.
Constant scurrilous allegations - without evidence, boycotts, and frivolous lawsuits have damaged their brand. That is an injury that is hard to repair, but they will because they produce quality products (your opinion aside) that appeal to a broad range of the public that does not belong to the Resistance mobs encouraged by the MSM to harm them.
The saddest factor is the glee with which those who dislike them enjoy trying to ruin them personally and professionally.
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@Parkbench
I don't call a $25MM settlement in the Trump University lawsuit frivolous.
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Best news I've heard in a while.
Sounds like Princess Trump is setting herself up to be the first female president of OUR United States of America.
NO. Over my dead body.
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Its odd that a country that has always had a practical and meaningful belief in the equality proclaimed in the constitution and the power of cooperation to help everyone has had a strict conservative rule for the last forty years that has reduced the quality of life and made citizens more servants than masters of their own government. It doesn't sound like an expected outcome of a properly working democracy. It suggests we don't really know who pulls the strings but whoever they are they don't seem to like us very much.
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"... the equality proclaimed in the constitution ..."
Where does "the constitution" "proclaim" "equality"?
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A great loss for the Goodwill stores, and other charity thrift stores. Period.
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I think Ivanka should enjoy looking beautiful and being rich. but keep her mouth shut...and, of course, leave that senior advisor position she holds. She'd gain respect for that act, considering she never earned/deserved the position, nor has she the qualifications to fill the position.
Her inadequacies are starting to show, and they must be embarrassing for her, even though it seems she gives little thought to her words or actions. I think Melania got that clue, or was she cued in, early in the run.
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"Her inadequacies are starting to show, ..."
List her "inadequacies".
She "cares" about women's issues as long as they're the issues of wealthy heiresses...
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Maybe Ivanka, being so concerned about families, could go to the border and help care for the thousands of caged children who will never see their parents again because of her father's policies that were enacted so hastily that reuniting has become nearly impossible. Ivanka could sit and listen to the pleas, and crying, and hysteria all day long. Maybe then she'd see the devastation to families her father has implemented in America.
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NYT really wants Ivanka Trump to play a larger role in public policy?
Lord help us all.
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This is a simple matter. Given her life experiences and list of accomplishments thus far, there is no reason for anyone to take Ivanka Trump seriously (?) If she aspires to change perceptions with regard to her values and her potential for improving the lot of women, she would have to radically reset her priorities in favor of benefiting significant segments of the population and cease her single-minded drive to expand her inherited fortune.
Reassessing Ivanka's contributions to our nation and society in general, after another 15 years of effective effort, would form the basis for an honest evaluation. Special note should be made of initiatives promoted by professional public relations operations and disallowing consideration of any so-called accomplishments claimed by that means.
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I appreciate this is an opinion piece that needs to be written. However, if the last several years have been instructive, we should expect nothing from this family except more of the same. Ms. Trump will do nothing other than promote herself and her woefully uninformed husband.
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Maybe she realized that she will need to play another role for the Trump brand when her father is in jail. Kind of like husband Jared, when his father was in jail.
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much easier if she just flipped priorities and stepped away from Washington to focus more on fashion.
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You have to wonder about the actual competency of Ivanka who doesn't understand the word "complicit" and doesn't have the wherewithal to look it up.
Trump forcing Ivanka down Europe's throat at the 2017 G20 summit was a high point of his presidency in retrospect. He did it in an attempt to diminish the hated Angela Merkel. His pettiness is one of his top 5 personality traits. Of course if bringing Ivanka along was his worst sin in his most recent summits we would all be ecstatic instead of terrified. Just an example of how high our tolerance level has become.
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“... how can she expect anyone to take her seriously?”
No one takes her seriously. She is an empty plastic shell.
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Javanka should get out of washington.They serve no purpose whatsoever except as grifters along with the rest of the trump administration.Move NOT to NYC..in case you haven't heard, you're not welcome.
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Ivanka Trump is as phony Rachel Dolezai. You remember Rachel, the white women pretending to be black in order to advance her career as the president of the NCAAP in the Spokane Washington chapter. Rachel changed her blonde hair to black and learned to speak in a southern lilt to convince the black community she was one of them. Rachel's parents, outraged by their daughter's devious masquerade, outed her with a birth certificate as proof Rachel was born a green eyed white woman.
Unlike Rachel's parents, Donald and Ivana Trump guided their daughter to play someone she was not. At an early, Ivanka's brown curly trusses were professionally straightened and colored "honey" blonde . She was sent to the best plastic surgeon in New York for a rhinoplasty and cheek reduction. With Ivanka's slavic features altered, her new look gave not only the illusion but guaranteed her acceptance as a high WASP. A few years later Ivanka followed up with breast enhancement surgery. The Trumps created a white Barbie Ivanka to follow in their footsteps of selling the ultimate brand of white, rich, entitlement - that only a fool would buy.
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Ivanka is as noxious as daddy. Her innocent schtick is as phony as daddy. PROSECUTE RUSSIAGATE!
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Ivanka should ditch the name Trump and take Kushner for her last name. The stench is bad either way since Kushners have felons in their family. Ivanka is folding her fashion brand to prepare to run for President.
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She's there for the easy access to licensing/trademark/branding deals: to the Trumps, “public service” means personal enrichment at the expense of the public. Ivanka's bogus 'advisor' title is offensive. Why not quit and focus on a business that could really take off for her family? — a new line of custom orange jumpsuits, modeled by all of them, would certainly be fashion-forward. Talk about 'influencers.'
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"I really don't care, do U?"
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BYE, BYE Ivanka clothing....by the way......Does anybody really think she has any power with her father???? Her "pet projects" will never be instituted. She may be smart and a "business woman" but she's just "window dressing" for her father and her husband..................................
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How about taking a stand against separating parents and children at the border?
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Please make sure Ivanka gets this.
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Now that Ivanka has more time she could remind her father that tradtional American values do not include snatching babies from mothers at the border.
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Who in their right mind would ever take Ivanka Trump seriously--about anything.
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What, exactly is the 'work' Ivanka Trump is doing in Washington?
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If she really does think she's such a progressive entrepreneur, then why doesn't she start a project that's focused on the eradication of domestic violence and promotion of self-reliance and empowerment instead of continuing to depend on daddy, especially such an old school, oppressive, misogynist daddy?
Could it be that she doesn't want to rock the good ship "Inheritance"?
Those poor kids have no place left to hide. Welcome to the internet.
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Not one thread was made or assembled in America and yet she was supporting her dad in a retaining worker announcement?
The editorial board could have been less Maureen Dowd in its style but the message is not trivial. The socially liberal voter should not rely on Ivanka to help protect women's rights.
She does have a good publicist though. That was an excellent press release. It nicely avoided the reality of the business' lack of sales.
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Ivanka should take a page from the Reagan (Ron Jr. and Maureen) children and say who she really is and what she really believes rather than pretending that she agrees with her absurd father. But that would surely incur both his wrath and that of her equally compromised husband Jared Kushner.
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What a relief that Ivanka has chosen to shutter her (also criminal) enterprise. Now she can concentrate on helping her father to destroy American democracy — while making the Russian Federation great again.
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Good riddance with the Ivanka brand--Ivanka Trump should not be in the White House at all, period. I recently read about her stance on equal pay, which was not equal. It's all a sham. Quite frankly, there's one brain cell exists among the whole lot. She could so us a favor and bow out, not a moment too soon. So much for shared DNA.
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She is just as deplorable as her father--she just looks better. Her tone deafness on issues such as reproductive rights, Israel, family separation and health care show that she is vapid and clueless.
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@JaneF
She is totally clueless and has never gone out on her own and actually DONE anything without Daddy's money and connections.
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If she truly supports women and families, why didn’t she speak out against the separation of children and parents? What kind of mother stands by without protesting that monstrous government action? She could have made a big difference but remained silent. She seems like a hollow shell of a person, another Trump.
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NYT, needless story. seven words about her so called business would have been enough. She is a fraud, who inherited some dough and built a brand on the backs of people so silly they bought her junk. Not the topic of a column! She is a footnote in history, at most. If Chelsea or one of the Obama daughter's had "marketed" themselves in this way, the backlash would have been cruel and 24\7.
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She's not divesting.
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/ivanka-trump-cl...
Lies just like her Dad.
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Maybe she does not speak out because she actually supports her father's mysoginst positions on everything. It could be that simple. She is his toothless puppet, just as he is Putin's.
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Such a shame. Her sheath dresses were the perfect liner to protect your garbage can when you tossed out her horrible books.
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Her products were all made outside of USA in spite of rhetoric supporting jobs in US. Just another hypocrite.
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Good luck with that, thinking Ivanka can be shamed into action.
She's Daddy's little girl and has proven again and again that not disappointing him is #1 on her agenda.
I hope this is the last time her name is printed in this newspaper. She is simply not worthy of your attention.
Move on.
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Sorry, employees.
But sticking with anyone with the name Trump somewhere involved was kind of foolish, wasn’t it? Just another bunch of pawns being told to skiddadle. Away with you!
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When I think of all those little polyesters that were killed to make those clothes....
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Her “brand” is kidnapping brown babies and putting them in cages. Her “brand” is using brown women in sweat shops to make her products. Her “brand” is excusing “Daddy’s” fascism. Her “brand” is complicity.
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Sorry to hear that Ivanka Trump is going out of business. In all honesty I wish she and Jared were still in N.Y and not D.C. That's especially true for her father. As we have witnessed the gene pool has gone from bad to worse. Ivanka and Jared are not the coldest beers in the White House fridge. If they are thinking they could be a dynasty like the Kennedy's or the Bush family they are fooling themselves. The only dynasty they belong to is the Duck Dynasty. ivanka and Jared decided to stay in Washington because they could make more money there, and participate in the selling of America to Putin. Trump's a scammer they are carpetbaggers.
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This only means more lucre can be gained via whatever she does in the White House.
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Does the public really deserve more of this person’s time?
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After Hudson's Bay cancelled her line last week, the writing was on the wall. Ivanka took the only choice available to her, shut down the company to avoid a bankruptcy and then claim to want to further her career as a public policy person. In reality, she is now a consumer/housewife married to a very wealthy husband. That daddy lets her fantasize while occupying an office in the west wing, is one of the big things wrong with this president. This is proof that the Trump administration isn't serious about policy(having outsourced to Heritage, but is serious about it's new corporate headquarters, the White House!
"....self-proclaimed champion of female empowerment like Ivanka Trump can’t speak out on these most basic of issues, how can she expect anyone to take her seriously?"
Most people don't, period.
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I don't think this is going to work out well. If Donald Trump had concentrated more on his business and less on the country, we would be better off. Now Trump is adding his favorite sidekick, Ivanka, to the mix and things might actually get worse. If that's humanly possible.
By the way, how's that middle east peace plan coming alone, post-American Embassy opening in East Jerusalem? Wasn't that a clever plan?
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"If a self-proclaimed champion of female empowerment like Ivanka Trump can’t speak out on [the] most basic of issues, how can she expect anyone to take her seriously?"
Is there anyone other than BiBi Netanyahu who takes Ivanka seriously?
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Maybe Ivanka could team up with Sara Sanders to develop a new line of clothing based on Ms. Sanders' signature toddler vamp style, to be manufactured in China and sold at Walmart.
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How much does anyone want to bet that she will declare bankruptcy and stiff her employees and other creditors, just like dear old dad. After all, just as back in the 1950s, father knows best.
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I expected nothing good to come from Ivanka Trump.
My expectations were met 100%.
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As a dutiful daughter, she needs to spend all her time trying to keep family members out of jail for TREASON!
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My only lasting image of Ivanka is of her publicizing a photo of herself snuggling her child while her father was throwing others mothers’ children into cages.
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Referring to women as “sensibly stylish moms” is demeaning and sexist. Do better.
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'Referring to women as “sensibly stylish moms” is demeaning and sexist.'
The Ivanka Trump brand carried a fashion line for moms: "Easy Outfits for Busy Moms". (per ivankatrump.com)
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I’m sorry—her father’s history with women is “colorful?”
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@Christy Rishoi. Perhaps lurid?
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@Susan Wladaver-Morgan — or possibly criminal?
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Ivanka for president ... in 2401.
Ivanka came in thinking she was a liberal. She's had to face the fact that her father is a through-and-through fascist wannabe dictator, and that she's window dressing in his vicious scheme to destroy our precious democracy.
She's paid a high price for her sellout. Who among her elite pals will talk to her ever again, except maybe the professional social climber, Wendy Murdoch?
They are the face of the new American oligarchy.
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Dina Powell left the White House because she didn’t think she could get anything done. She worked for Ivanka
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She's giving up all those Chinese licenses?
I have to think its because she knows WWIII is around the bend and she wants to put her money into Spam and nude designer gas masks for the modern besieged by aircraft-fire woman.
Nice to be an insider.
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Wait... wait, Ms. Trump expects anyone to take her seriously? Seriously? She should stick to the pumps and pencil skirts and stay out of our government. I certainly didn't vote for any of these avowed criminals.
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Whenever I see a photograph of sculpted, plasticized Ivanka or Jared, it brings back memories of my sister snapping her favorite Barbie doll and only Ken doll into their pink plastic convertible. This wasn’t easy since their knees didn’t bend.
You had to wrench and lever them in. Then jiggle them.
Barbie’s feet, if anybody recalls, were molded permanently to fit teensy plastic spike heels. For her wedding. For the prom. For her night club performances.
Nude pumps anybody?
The fact that the New York Times editorial board is writing about this particular Barbie-Ivanka doll is both sickening and hilarious.
It does teach us that the White House has become a plastic playhouse.
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Brilliantly written.
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When will the EB grow up? Apparently not until 2024 when Trump leaves office. Of course, by then, the angry left will have so embarrassed themselves that the successor to Trump will likely be another Repub. Congratulations on your trivial pursuits.
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Ever since I heard about the jailing of whistleblowers who showed Ivanka's factories in China were some of the worst sweatshops around, I take that candybox hair and makeup with a grain of salt.
(OT: but do you know that Trump suggested she get breast enhancements when she was a teenager?)
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No one is meaner than the readers of this newspaper, despite the daily affirmations of their moral superiority. And it’s always open season on any woman not on the left. Look at the things you write. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. And don’t blame Trump. You’ve been doing it for years.
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You pay attention to Trump and his looters, enablers, and dupes, and say we're mean? Selective much?
We're not the ones who hate freedom and love dictators.
Our cowardly vain bully in chief is encouraging violence and "second amendment solutions" but no one is meaner than we are?
Nope. Not even close!
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I’m pretty sure Faux, Breitbart et al are meaner than the NYT. Maybe your hero could try governing for all Americans, not just the sycophants like you and then we won’t have so much bad news to digest every day.
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@KJ mcNicholsTwo words:Access Hollywood.
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How about a limited-edition designer straightjacket with trump cufflinks for daddy, Pence, Ryan, McConnell, Nunes, Sessions.
Just a thought.
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Oh dear, Kellyanna Conwaya will have wardrobe changes!
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She was doing work in Washington????
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I suggest Ivanka be named "Secretary of Calming the President When He's Even Crazier than Usual."
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Like the Trump Foundaton, Ivanka Trump and her "brand" are frauds. She, like the rest of her family, are grifters and liars. They are all exploiting the office of the President to make bank.
If she had any principles or ethics at all, she would not have taken her ridiculous "senior advisor" position in the first place.
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Today, must have been for her so disheartening , she should just go to her father and get some failing business advice. "Daddy, what have you done on the numerous occasions you have gone bankrupt? " " oh well, always blame it on everyone but you. Never, never admit any fault. "
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"If a self-proclaimed champion of female empowerment like Ivanka Trump can’t speak out on these most basic of issues, how can she expect anyone to take her seriously?"
We don't. She's as much a grifter as daddy, but she has a different presentation. Both are media savvy in their own way: An amazing, high-achieving brand (failed, money-losing) brand agrees to close (closed to stem losses) so the owner can serve her country (find bigger grifts for the long term). Gag.
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Nothing less than a grand slam on bid of Three No Trump will do.
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After 2 years of working in the White House she wants to learn public policy. What for?
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Sadly, she has now put all those Chinese out of work. Maybe they can get jobs with ZTE, as Daddy and Congress just saved their jobs.
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Can the media just stop writing about Javanka? Every time you write about them, it legitimizes their existence in the political world. They are without any merit. Please, stop.
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The Trumps know what is coming,
and what is coming is justice and the rule of law.
Everything is going to be opened up to the public view
and questioning every detail - therefore to close down as much as possible before the November elections,
and the Blue Wave.
To recon with reality is coming to the Trumps.
Mueller and the reports coming soon.
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@PropagandandTreason
If Mueller can hold off until January 7, 2019 (when hopefully at least one house of Congress won't be corrupt), it might have some teeth.
Otherwise, Congress will bury it, and the courts won't help either.
Bought and paid for.
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Ivanka is a joke of a human being. All the worst to her in her new role.
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Gee, Ivanka, you're such a great role model! Here's what I've learned from you: 1) When the going gets tough--quit. 2) When you get tired of something or don't feel like doing it anymore--quit. 3) Disregard the needs of the people who work for you because they don't matter--so what if they lose their jobs--my needs are what really counts. I'll be sure to remember your lessons the next time you decide to play at a career, such as when you run for office.
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What exactly does Ivanka Trump do in the White House besides take up space?
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“Your attention please . . . paging Samantha Bee, paging Samantha Bee. Your comments are being requested by the American people.”
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Such a shame that the offspring of the serial bankrupt (morally and financially) has had her business go under. I applaud the downing of one business. May it be followed by more family-related businesses going to the wall. I hope this administration bankrupts him and all his henchmen by the end of their tenure. Because all he cares about is money, not his family. Hit him where it hurts.
I do think to ask for her to tackle 45's multiple transgressions against women would just a bit too large a bite for her to chew. Anyone, really. Maybe if she could get a spot on Faux News, he'd pay attention. But nah, that might require critiqueing her beloved daddy and Dear Leader. Not going to happen with this bunch. Pin your hopes on Tiffany, perhaps?
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Ivanka is a fake blond, plastic-surgery altered, nepotistic, rich, trust fund supported, out of touch, self-congratulatory, self-important, insipid and mousey daddy's girl, with little originality or strength of character. Evidently, she's happy to be in the playpen, finding her way, on the American people's dime. She's fails to decry her father's misogynistic, xenophobic and racist policies, and goes along with his false narrative and lies. She occupies a space which could have been filled by someone far more qualified and capable and driven, and has achieved what so far ? Why do the authors of this article have sympathy for this woman ? Since when did the authors get the wool pulled over their eyes ? Since when has it become the norm to accept mediocrity in lieu of looking for a real champion of such issues the authors mention ? Since when are we expected to just roll over and accept that this woman holds a place in government that she has no right to hold and no place to be in, and was never elected to fill ? Since when do we forget what is right and what is wrong, not decry the immorality of what's going on the in WH and, like a punch-drunk boxer, give up the fight ? This woman is no example of who you should have as a leader, role model or representative of the good American people. Your reality-tv world has replaced ethics, morality, and intelligence for image (or "optics"as you lot so daftly say now). To quote the father of the Bride of Dracula, "sad", "so sad".
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R.I.P.?? Not if you mean “peace” with that P. Maybe “Really Interested in Putin”?
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That anybody thought this vapid, spoiled person could do anything useful in DC is laughable. Now she thinks it's a good idea to borrow from Social Security? Let's look forward to a big groupof destitute widows. I'm just happy the boycott of her Chinese made junk worked and Canada was able to deliver the final blow.
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Are you holding your breath?
Ivanka should quit her job at the White and keep her business, not lay off 18 people.
Trump gold is flake thin. Rust will always poke through. Everything the man touches turns to ...t. Even his own kin are not immune to the cancer he exudes.
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Dear Editorial Board: This is a nice try, though it seems Ms. Trump is just as shameless as her father in profiting via being located in the White House.
It is more likely she'll bide her time until he leaves and then put those gifted Chinese trademarks to good use.
After all, her Chinese popularity hasn't suffered the way it has in North America.
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Kind of reminds me of the hit Tiger Woods’ brand took when his depraved life was exposed. Prior to that time, wearing one of Tiger’s actually really cool golf shirts was both a statement of style and hope (the hope that one might land a couple of Tiger like shots). Now the shirts just sit in a drawer.
Ivanka’s line was targeted at women who most likely are repulsed by her father, his presidency, and Ivanka’s inability to do anything positive at her father’s boardroom White House table. No doubt, those with a closet full of Ivanka threads are now saying too, “what was I thinking?”
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What a bummer.... I can’t buy knockoffs of REAL clothing brands anymore.... at 75% discount !
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Ivanka dropped her clothing line to focus on what's really important-- the criminal defense of her scheming, criminal father and her scheming, criminal husband, the cruel, heartless slumlord just sued for throwing little old ladies out of their rent-controlled apartments.
Hope she and Jared like the weather in Siberia. Maybe her fine furs will end up being useful.
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aka Complicit Emolument Fashion!
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It's hard work dedicating yourself to helping your father ruin a democracy.
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Mazel Tov! Now she can work full time on shuttering America .
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Yeah, right, it's doing great, but she wants to focus on other things.
A liar, just like her father.
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In a branded era where Rachel Ray sells dog food and other 'celebrities' can't help but sell QVC junk, Ivanka couldn't design fashion that anyone cared for or bought. She's as successful an 'adviser' to the White House.
Remember, that this prettified grifter still collects millions and millions of ill-begotten profits from her share of the Trump Organization’s properties enmeshed in corrupt conflicts of interests, particularly those located in Washington, New York, and Florida. She is as culpable as her dear daddy. The Faux Daughter came close to being indicted in New York City for fraud relating to the marketing of Trump Soho. Once a Trump, always a Trump!
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“Take her seriously”? Who takes her seriously? Maybe Jared?
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Ivanka contributes nothing to women's rights or needs in our culture. Posing and prancing does not qualify for any leadership or mentoring role... altho her daddy thinks she can be the first woman president.
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Mark this as the beginning of the massive recession that is soon to come upon us as reality catches up with the sheer unsustainability of the belief-based, delusional crazies now in power.
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I can think of a few people who must have been wishing that Ivanka’s business would do so well as to consume her attention.
"On Thursday morning, at a senior staff meeting, Ms. Trump, a senior adviser to the president, told the group that she wanted help keeping her father on message, according to a person briefed on what took place. She said her worker retraining announcement with her father later in the afternoon at the White House could provide a pivot toward a new story.
"Once she finished talking, the president’s counselor, Kellyanne Conway, pointed out that Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and two other administration intelligence officials would appear at a national security conference in Aspen, Colo., noting that it could become another day of coverage about Russia. John F. Kelly, the chief of staff, resumed the meeting without addressing the issue.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/trump-signals-consequence...
The stuff made under the Ivanka Trump brand was awful anyway, so this is no loss to anyone.
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Shouldn't Ivanka be receiving a bailout like the Tea Party farmers in red states?
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I did not vote for this president, do not support his agenda, am offended by his behavior, and could care less about his daughter's clothing label.
However, for the NYT editorial board to use this announcement of the shuttering of her brand as an excuse to pile on to the president's daughter for her lack of control of her father's policies is abhorrent and transparent.
You have never and will never make this kind of an attack on Chelsea Clinton.
So please demonstrate some veil of fairness in your criticism of outspoken presidential offspring.
We will all be better served if you practice editorial restraint over the fangs of pouncing at the slightest opportunity of criticism.
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@peterrscottChelsea Clinton was not a formal advisor to the president.
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Isn’t Ms Trump a Senior Advisor to the President? Presumably her father wanted her in the role, or at a minimum, placated her by allowing her to come to Washington; either way, the Editors and we as citizens are left to think that yes, she indeed IS meant to be ADVISING the President. Is he listening? Ha!
Was Chelsea Clinton a Senior Advisor to President Clinton? No. She was a minor while her father was in office, all eight years. Much like the Obama and Bush girls, Amy Carter, and perhaps even if Ivanka were a minor too - or even if she simply weren’t a Senior Advisor - they’d be off limits to the press as news subjects per the norm.
Even now as an adult, Chelsea Clinton uses her voice on Twitter to speak out against unfair attacks against on children of Presidents (or high office holders) of ANY party because she’s been a member of a rare group of people subject to the highest level of scrutiny and believes that at least up to a certain age, political children deserve not to be judged by their parents.
Ivanka Trump went into business with her father’s money, worked on her father’s dubious campaign and went with him to Washington. She’s all grown up and made grown up choices. It is what it is. Can’t have it both ways.
It’s not personal, it’s just consequences of her choices. She’ll monetize something else down the line, maybe a DC memoir. It’ll be ok.
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@peterrscott
Herein lies the difference: Chelsea Clinton never purported herself to be a senior policy advisor to her father when he was president.
There is nothing unfair about criticism of a person who crowed about working to bring women's issues to the forefront and then standing back and literally doing nothing.
Be best, Ivanka.
I despise this Administration and am glad that she is shuttering her business. However, this editorial is saturated with demeaning snark about mid-range fashion and the whole business of fashion as practiced by Ms. Trump. I believe if the company were owned by a male, the tone would be very different. The word “catty” comes to mind. I don’t usually read these Editorial Board pieces and this one doesn’t persuade me to look again anytime soon.
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Wonder if she is still welcomed in New York...
I almost feel sorry for someone who is so insulated that she is unaware of the glee her announcement provoked.
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What do you expect from complicit Ivanka? Stop giving her suggestions on what to do - she is not capable and not willing.
Also, didn't she earned millions from her Washington DC hotel? Will Trump Hotels and Trump golf courses shut down next?
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Dear Ivanka,
May I respectfully suggest to avoid getting to comfy in Washington? Contrary to rumors you may have heard at family reunions, your dad is not king, this is not Venezuela, and residency at the White House is not permanent.
We are making every effort to send you all back to the family Tower at the earliest. Perhaps it is not such a good idea to give up the business so soon.
Respectfully,
An American Voter
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The entire Trump presidency is a major grift. Seriously, folks, who takes Ivanka Trump Kushner seriously these days? Re her putting the kibosh on her namesake brand clothing line -- "Ivanka" -- is confict of interest in the Trump Empire of any interest to Trump's ignotant base? Could it be that Sarah Sanders's Donald Trump-inspired complaint about U.S. Gov't intelligence folks "monetizing" their TSSI clearances to the Fake News White House Reporters hit a bit too close to home for the president's daughter? Instead of pricey foreign-manufactured and licensed shmattas, Mrs. Ivanka Trump Kushner announced yesterday that she will focus on pursuing a career in public policy in Washington, D.C. Hey, fashion's gain is public policy's loss!
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I guess I shall need to upgrade to Goodwill for my future supply of shoes.
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She wants to focus on "her work" as a presidential advisor? WHAT work? If she really wants to do something along those lines, how about helping to reunite innocent, immigrant children ripped from their parents by her hidiously cruel father back with their frantic parents? Otherwise, shut up and quit.
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Ivanka is a scandal in broad daylight, which any Trump daughter who goes into criminal politics must be.
In the long run, she stands in danger not only of becoming a figure of ever greater international contempt, but of being drawn ever more deeply into her father's web of treason.
Let us hope for her children's sake that she soon leaves the White House and dissociates herself from her husband, her father, and the other traitors who travel with him.
Sooner or later, the power of justice will reveal the sins of this evil president in the starkest of lights.
That Ivanka supports him so meekly places her in danger not only of hard time in prison but of becoming a byword for misplaced family loyalty that will endure for centuries to come.
What woman in her right mind would want to trade places with Ms. Trump? Nary a one.
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Don't be fooled. She doesn't care about the employees. It's all bottom line for her. She does nothing for women. She is being groomed to take over the presidency from daddy to keep the oval in the trump name.
Isn't this the same woman who walked behind 45 at the business leader conference applauding all their platitudes of her old man? Isn't this the same woman who has basically accomplished zero since having been put in the WH except for her complicity and cluelessness on women and family issues? Isn't this the same woman who's dad is grooming her to be the first female president? That's the truly terrifying aspect of this -- 45 thinks his regime is a monarchy with the rest of his criminal family behind him taking over the reins and leading to the final destruction of this country.
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Please focus on the actual film reel how this will pan out. Opportune “canned” moments of Ivanka and the “grandkids” in the Oval Office. These are the John-John Kennedyesque moments. Ivanka as First Lady stand in for galas at the Kennedy center or UN functions. The requisite Congressional brown bags where Staffers politely smile, nod their heads and check their mobile devices. Power breakfasts at the White House dining hall. Corner table formerly known as Pruitt’s Perch renamed Javanka Beanery.
The Javanka family end cap baggage train of tears back to NYC. A time to lick their wounds and restart their Big Apple lives.
Rats. Now I'm wishing I had bought that red Ivanka Trump sundress (made in China) I saw last year in a Goodwill store ($8) in Washington, DC.
It would make such a great joke Christmas present for someone in a few years time!
:-/
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Whatever happens with her failure to continue the unattractive clothing brand is nothing to what disgrace which will follow her, her siblings and her children for many years to come after #45 leaves office as one of the worst presidents since Groover Cleveland. The family will be marked as the piranha they always were now simply in the public eye,
I think her demographics shifted to the Deep South and Midwest. An Ivanka Daisy Duke line for plus size women would sell like hotcakes in Walmart, K Mart, and 5 Below .
The Huck could help here. She's adored in Russia, another untapped market, they certainly have the business connections.
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Another eighteen workers shuttered in this country and who knows how many in China and Bangladesh. Another failed Trump enterprise. Isn't winning wonderful?
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Ivanka's brand failed because the President made his family's name toxic. Anything associated with his name loses value.
It's good to see the Times humoring the notion that Ivanka might seriously engage in serious policy. One hardly hears about her in the news any more. No doubt she was taken aback by Washington's savagery and the level of scrutiny she's been receiving.
In many ways, Ivanka resembles a courtier in her father's court that we refer to as the Trump Organization, a byzantine collection of tiny fiefdoms designed to obfuscate the operations of a small family firm. And despite her acquaintanceship with many of America's power brokers, including the Clintons, she's never had to think outside her relatively small environment.
Her narrow focus showed early on with her misguided attempt to persuade Planned Parenthood to split into two organizations, one for abortions, the other for other family services. While abortions may constitute a small minority of the services Planned Parenthood offers, they are at the organization's heart. Doh! Why not ask a man to cut off his own arm.
I'm hoping that Ivanka will disappear from the Washington scene entirely, just like a lot of the other hangers-on Donald brought with him already have. She's no different than the Flynns and Manaforts and Lewandowskis who've already fallen by the wayside, other than in the kinds of corruption she brings to the table.
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These soft elite criticisms of the Trump presidency will accomplish nothing. Trump and the Republican Party are at war with American Democracy. It is time to bring out the big gums and respond appropriately. You don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
Buck up and get busy.
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Ivanka doesn’t seem to want to upset her father. She’s made it clear that she’s not going to cross her father because she’s his daughter. Ivanka’s a perfect example why nepotism is wrong in our government.
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She's not sacrificing anything, she's setting herself up to be forever First Princess once her daddy crowns himself King. It's the ultimate fairytale for a rich kid who already has more than everything else.
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Ivanka has proven herself to be equally as shallow as
her father, just not as globally toxic.
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I don’t take her seriously and I’m sick of hearing how smart and takented she is. What has she accomplished? A failed clothing line? A legacy admission to College? Married another rich and privileged person. PUHLEESE! I have heard her speak with prepared remarks and at best she is underwhelms me. This whole administration is a farce, a tragicomedy.
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Why the link to her shoes on Zappos??
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From a personal perspective, her support of her father did move clothing with her tags on them from my "unremarkable/neutral" category, to "blacklisted".
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This woman has traded on her last name her entire life. She has no knowledge of public policy or the legislative process. And, it seems, very little business acumen, if she is closing her business due to its poor performance. What is terrifying is the idea that this person will use her inherited wealth and position to become president, and people will buy into it. Please Mr. Mueller, find whatever it is that will pull this family out of power.
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I don't know why we are wasting media space on Ivanka and her business woes. Nothing was done about the inappropriate advantage-taking that she did to get trademarks in China. She has done nothing to temper he fathers temper. The only matter that I see affected by her shutting down her company is that perhaps the Kushner-Trump combined income may drop down a couple million from the $82M they made last year, and I really can't shed any tears over that. What I am more concerned about is that I would bet that Daddy has a fantasy film in his head about being pres until 2024, and then running his pretty daughter for the position. Hope I'm not of this world anymore by then and that my progeny can afford to leave the country.
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The world of fashion certainly generates some fascinating stories. Benito Mussolini's oldest daughter, Edda was smuggled out of Italy in 1944 by none other than the famous clothing designer, Emilio Pucci. I will continue to follow Trump's administration for more chapters in my new book, "Wives, Daughters, and Lovers of the World's Great Dictators."
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@Mark Looking forward to reading your book. I am working on one myself, "Money Grubbing Celebrities and the Quest for Eternal Life."
Well written, and true. I'm sure she'll read this opinion and get right on it!
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I have a dear friend who told me she came across an Ivanka article of clothing while shopping at Marshall’s the other day. I asked her if she promptly threw it on the floor and she replied: “of course not. First I blew my nose on it, and THEN I threw it on the floor.
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I've been wondering since the election how long Ivanka's product lines could survive, because her clientele were the people most outraged by Trump.
But this business doesn't matter to the Trumps or the Kushners -- t'was small change. Ivanka's role and impact in Washington has been utterly nugatory.
Ivanka should follow the lead of every other child of a president: stay out of the limelight; all you do is draw fire if you are in it.
And it's likely she has much bigger problems on her mind: the Signature Bank investigation. She was on the board, while they were lending to her father and husband. Depending on what turns up ... she might be in real trouble:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/signature-bank-trump-kushner...
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Ivanka's shuttering her brand is the equivalent of a defeated politician leaving office "to spend more time with his family." Let's face it, major stores are dropping the brand like hot potatoes as their customers have demanded. Women are speaking out through their pocket books. On my last visit to Saks (albeit an outlet store) the rack containing Ivanka's dresses were inched toward the back of the store until they disappeared. Chalk one up for the consumer.
If her clothes were still a money maker, I'm convinced business would have prevailed over government service. That's the real trump brand--making money.
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So much for the "Art of the Deal" and "Make America Great Again." Eighteen people are now out of work.
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
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From early in his candidacy, there were clear signs that his run for the Presidency was bad for his business. I was convinced that he would quit long before he further exposed to ruin the only thing he cares about; the Trump brand.
But, the President was too arrogant to see the obvious risk. And this man is our Commander-in-Chief.
By the grace of God, the country will survive the Trump Presidency; but his brand will not.
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Her products were just plain awful. The business declined because it delivered a fashion line that was totally unfashionable and poorly made. Nothing to do with politics; it’s just how the market works.
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Sorry for her employees. I hope they got good severance packages - and actually receive them. Now, let's see what Ivanka REALLY does in her taxpayer-paid position, although monitoring her will likely be about #30 in my Top 10 Concerns About Trumplandia.
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I think more than 17 employees lost their jobs. What about all the Chinese workers producing Ivanka's goods? Or have they been reassigned to Trump's tie production?
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You can still find her stuff at Marshalls for ten cents or less on the dollar of the original retail price.
Selection is iffy.
At that price point people are buying utility, not a name.
Next stop, sold by the bale in Africa.
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I really don't care what has happened to her business. I do care if this statement she made about working harder at her job in the White House--whatever it is--is bravado or is there some looming disaster in store for America when her Dad gives her a job she can't handle. She's stood in for the Secretary of State a number of times in the past. I'm hoping that isn't where she is going to land now. The last thing we need is another uninformed, inexperienced pseudo diplomat traveling around the world in designer clothing saying and doing things that make no sense to anyone and making us look like the fools that we are for allowing Trump to get in the White House in the first place.
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Ms Trump needs to go home and be a good wife to her dear husband who is meddling in the Middle East which is way above his pay grade or abilities. They need to look at their finances and get themselves a good lawyer because surely they will need one with all the "easy money" floating their way. Don't depend on Cohen.
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Ivanka Trump is the bad seed of a bad seed of a bad seed. It's a rare occurrence in history.
We can't expect her to be different in any way from her father. We might even expect her to be worse.
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You're not serious. But then again, neither is she. She's folding her company because it's cratering and, more importantly, because she has to remake her image before she gets indicted. This is merely the first salvo in what will be an extended PR blitz.
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At what point does a daughter call out her father for his despicable behavior? Is she so weak that she cannot condemn in no uncertain terms his womanizing and adulterous affairs? Much has been made of her conversion to Judaism. If her faith is real, she can speak out about the immoral behavior of her father and still profess her love of him. But as things stand right now, she is just another sycophant enabling his repulsive behavior.
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Let me offer my thoughts and prayers.
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"Abstinence education"? Oh, how I wish donald j. trump could both have exercised abstinence and had some education.
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Thank goodness Ivanka is focusing her formidable energy and intellect on social issues rather than the naked grafting of the American public. After all, supreme grifting is her fathers job. Hunker down Ivanka....you are an inspiration for working women everywhere.....
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She's not cut out for this stuff. Bless her heart.
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I have zero expectation - and even less hope - of something, anything, substantive from the Trump brood . . .
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This changes my life not one iota. Nor does it make the Trump regime any less amoral, corrupt, racially charged, vulgar and reprehensible.
The world never wanted or needed Ivanka’s ‘fashion’ products and they will not be missed.
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If Ivanka is doing more now in government than she did while running her clothing business, she must've been the acme of hand-off managers.
When Bill Clinton was elected, he was demonized by the GOP as a corrupt outsider, who unforgivably gave his wife a job, despite her never being elected. That she was intelligent, committed and capable of learning the job was irrelevant. Nepotism! The Clintons had little experience in Washington, but they had at least held political jobs before, and understood the concept of surrounding themselves with competent insiders.
We now have an another unqualified outsider, this one far more unqualified that Bill - who did recognize that things like trade and foreign policy mattered - who has hired his daughter and son-in-law (another 2 for 1 deal!) who have no experience whatsoever. The GOP outrage now? Crickets.
I suppose that expecting people to be consistent and not be hypocritical is too much. But we watched Hillary Clinton crash and burn in the last election, remnants of the loathing the right had for her, largely because of her not being willing to play the little lady and pretend to keep her nose out of national affairs. And now we see little Ivanka and her Jared, ensconced beside Daddy, with no criticism whatsoever.
Spin doctors must have fried their brains doing all those 180s, and have nothing left to use for critical thinking.
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What happens to all the new licenses Ivanka was recently granted by the Chinese? Are they null and void? Can she sell them? Can she use them later?
Does anyone know what Ivanka is up to at the White House? She seems to be way under the radar. It must be something big for her to give up her brand?
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I submit that what really happened is that Ivanka's line was not doing well. Maybe people aren't buying her merchandise because they don't like her. I see her fashion items in Marshal's heavily discounted. I saw one of her blouses on sale there for $1.
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@NYC Independent - Well, to be fair, $1 is no doubt far more than a thirteen year old Chinese girl working long hours in a sweat shop was paid to make the blouse.
I am repelled both by the NYT in this piece and by Ivanka Trump, as ever.
The suggestion by the NYT that there is even a hint of sincerity to this parasite’s claim that she is stepping away from her business to do good in Washington on behalf of a needy nation is preposterous. If she is to be believed, she “stepped away” from her business 17 months ago, leaving it completely in the hands of others to run, in order, she claimed, to not run afoul of conflict of interest rules she cared so deeply about, and to concentrate on her deeply held concerns for the nation’s women and children. If that were true, and it isn’t, there would be absolutely no need now to shut down the same business in order to “concentrate on the issues I hold so dear”. She lied then and is lying now.
Her business, like all Trump businesses, is failing, full stop. She is throwing her emplyoyees out of work and hunkering down with lawyers to await the inevitable lawsuits from unpaid suppliers and contractors. The NYT should be ashamed of itself for even suggesting there is any sincerity in Daddy’s little girl and her professions of concern.
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Dispite stepping away in 2017 Ms. Trump reportedly made five million from her name loaning brand last year.
Back to her full-time job as Daddy Whisperer?
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I remember Ivanka making the distinction between her business and "my father's politics".
I would tell her that it's no so much her father's politics that I'm concerned about, but his being evil that matters.
She is only his enabler.
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What about all those copy-writes granted by China some months ago? Mothballed for a few years only to be resurrected in a more propitious time?
Eighteen employs thrown under the bus. Sad they did not see the handwriting on the wall.
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The Times doesn't get it. The Trump way does not require you to actually do anything to help anyone outside their own income level. They just have to say they will. And there are plenty of voters who will run off the cliff if she tells them to do so. She just won't be among them when they do. Because actually mingling with the masses is so unseemly in her world.
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This is not yet the end, but I hope it is the beginning of the end. People are getting tired of the Trump family's incessant self-absorption and will eventually reach a tipping point. Then Trump will not have a single person to speak on his behalf and they will lead Trump away in a straitjacket, as he rants about "crooked Hillary" and "fake news". It will be like the French film "Le Roi du Coeur" where the inmates, having had their fun, all go back to the asylum and lock themselves in again.
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@Jonathan From your lips to God's ears.
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Ivanka, I associate your White House advisory role with babies in cages. That's right. You pledged to focus on women's issues and bringing out your father's compassion, and what we got was mothers separated from children and babies in cages. I think this piece is far too kind. We don't care about your handbags. We know exactly who you are and what you stand for.
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Oh perish the thought of Ivanka and Marco working together. It does not seem like a recipe for progress. Just two shiny objects idly glittering, being blown in the wind.
Ivanka is only about Ivanka. She’ll focus on staying out of prison.
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How many creditors, contractors, and employees will be left holding the (moderately priced!) handbag?
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The freakishly weird conceit that Ivanka Trump might be a public servant rears its mutant head again.
There's never been any evidence of it. Lots of evidence that there's none of it. It's past time that we wonder.
Is it impossible for journalists to establish fact about a Trump?
In other news, if I ever say anything remotely like the following, I hope the ghost of George Orwell strangles me in my sleep:
“After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington, so making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners.”
Just ugh.
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Ivanka said, "... my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington...."
So, what kind of work is she doing? Is she on the government dole as an advisor to the Trumpet?
It would not surprise me if she closed her company because profits had tumbled into the abyss of Trumpetland......There can be no other reason, as the stories have been out for months. Her brand is worthless, as is her father's.
Shouldn't they all sneak out of town and leave our country in peace?
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Ivanka is still playing pretend in her make-believe princess world. What has she done on her own? She became a business person like her father. She became a reality TV show host like her father. Now she's a pretend "top White House adviser" working next to her pretend president father (Putin's the real president). Now rumor has it that she wants to be president. Of course she does!
Giving Ivanka advice on how to be a better "top White House adviser" is the final clue that we're all living in some alternative universe reality TV show. Maybe we'll wake up tomorrow and find we've all been pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen. This is who America is. But, no, it's not. It's all too ridiculous and pathetic.
The pretend president must resign and take his pretend top adviser with him. Enough is enough.
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Certainly, as the IT brand goes gently into the night, the expression "The world mourns." does not seem to conjured forth. As a postscript, one could ask the fate of all those newly minted Chinese trademarks.
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Finally some good news. Excellent article.
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We can dress Ivanka up in nice clothes with extra fancy bric -a-brac, but she will never be anything other than an empty shirt. She can google and get the quotes of others but she cannot generate wisdom de novo. Many of us would be very surprised to learn that she actually does something at the White House other than attend meetings with world leaders with whom she is manifestly unqualified to consort. I feel badly for the 18 workers who will lose their jobs, but Ivanka likely has no pity. She just on to the next gig.
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Poor Ivanka. Womp womp. Sending my thoughts and prayers.
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The whole family is in way over their heads. They have no right to be occupying such high level positions in our world. But here we are. The whole lot is Poorly qualified for anything except for being what they were before the election which was vapid wealthy real estate grifters. All we can do is keep voting and maybe this nightmare will end.
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@BCY123
"They have no right to be occupying such high level positions in our world." Someone should inform BCY123 that Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016. It was in all the papers. Even the Times carried the story.
Seems the ability to face facts and tell the truth is a family trait with the Trumps. She can tell herself and the world that she shut her line down because she needs to concentrate on advising someone who takes no advice, but anyone with a functioning brain knows it was failing under the weight of her fathers alienation of thinking Americans.
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
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Oh pffft. The clothing line just isn’t turning a profit. It seems most women don’t want to pay Bloomingdale prices for Kohl’s quality.
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Ask not what will Ivanka ever do for America. Ask only, how many vulnerable contractors and suppliers has she left holding the bag?
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Maybe Dad is closing up, too? And why? Due to absolute incompetence.
I hope, this happens soon.
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Anything "Trump" eventually will fail. Happy to see the start.
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No sympathy here. She's at least partly responsible for the timing of Justice Kennedy's retirement and is now cozying up to Susan Collins to influence her vote for Judge Kavanaugh. Beware, She's every bit as toxic as her father.
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"first daughter, presidential adviser and entrepreneur"
In other words in her case, the embodiment of nepotism and how unqualified family get "jobs", businesses where someone else funds the start up and someone else always has the real expertise & does the real work; but she gets titles like CEO and "presidential adviser", etc.
Has been handed everything, a silver spoon grifter, never has had to merit anything.
If she had an ounce of integrity she'd disappear to one of her mansions, oversee the staff who polish her silver, and never be seen or heard from again.
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Ivanka isn't going to promote women; she's going to pretend to promote women. She and her hubby tried to pressure Planned Parenthood into dropping abortion services with threats to end Congressional funding (as reported by Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood). She will continue to claim she's a champion, but she will do no more for women than her father is doing to help the working class or her husband is doing to bring about peace in the Middle East. More importantly, this op-ed doesn't touch on Ivanka's other questionable efforts to promote her own business while her father has the reigns of power. What about her obtaining China's approval for trademarks BEFORE her daddy announced his tough tariffs on China? Her ethics--like that of most of this administration, not to mention her husband and father--are disgraceful.
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I understand that it's wrongheaded to judge a daughter by the actions of her father but can't help but wonder about the effects of being raised by a father who is intellectually and morally deficient.
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@Clark Landrum I think you’re a poor judge of people Clark. Intellectually deficient? Our president has an MBA from Wharton.
Let's face it. Ivanka is not a serious person about any policy that will not enhance the family's wealth.
How could she possibly be for any women's issues when she has not faced any struggle regarding money, child care, advancement in a job, access to birth control and great health care. Not to mention the availability of safe housing and a good education? Perhaps she has faced sexual harassment by her own father, (remember his remarks on Howard Stern's show), but it does not seem to me that she is a well rounded human being with a moral conscience. But then I do not know her personally. I only know about her from reading newspapers and listening to the evening news.
The fact that some people think she is in the white House to baby-sit her father is rather amusing. She obviously is failing at that, or she thinks he is fine just the way he is.
In any event, let's see if she gives her employees a good employment package before they leave, to get them through what might be a long process of finding another job or use her connections to get them a job. That is what a really good boss would do. And it would prove that she is not just another pretty face, but does have some substance.
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"Feckless" and "complicit"--these are the adjectives that Ivanka will forever be inextricably linked to. This is what her "brand" has become to a lot of us.
I will not hold my breath on this list of things that Ivanka must do to become the champion of women's issues that she thinks she is. She has disappointed time and again.
It's high time for Jared and Ivanka to leave Washington. They are an embarrassment to themselves and to our country. I say good riddance to both of them!
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Ivanka can now step up the meetings where she has minions tell Trump how great he is, and make sure that everyone claps. Making daddy Great again.
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If Ms. Trump could have had some useful influence on her father this would be a worthwhile story.
But other than providing an attractive prop, she is irrelevant to him.
And so she is irrelevant to the rest of us.
I live in a middle-class New Jersey suburb and I guarantee that every single one of the people in my neighborhood provides more meaningful contributions to society than Ivanka Trump.
The Times Editorial Board would better serve their readers if they wrote about the weather, used car prices or growing vegetables. Please write about subjects that have some value and importance.
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The last word in this op-ed will be the last word on Mr. Trump in the history books 50 years from now.
Ivanka, Inc. joins Trump ties, Trump steak, Trump casinos, Trump University and ultimately Trump himself in the dustbin of history. Future residents who live in whatever remains of this country at that time will look back and ask: Seriously?
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Ivanka Inc. consisted of 18 employees.
A shocking illustration of how Ivanka Inc. produced its wares. A handful of people sub-contracted, abroad, all of the production work.
We know that the hypocrisy of the Trumps has no limit, but this is an astonishing backdrop to Trump's "made in America" blather.
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The Trump name, that Ivanka has been trying to exploit for personal gain since the day she arrived in DC has been her undoing. It's toxic. And the shuttering of her business is proof.
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Take a look at the typical Trump supporter shown on his rally news reports. Do any of them look like they would purchase "nude pumps" or other clothing from the Ivanka line? Trump's negative impact on the enterprise should have been no surprise.
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Ms. Trump is the pretty grifter of the family. And just like Daddy has a very distorted view of reality if she thinks she will be "architecting" (her word) any kind of political future for herself.
Run for President? Even the GOP will laugh her off the stage.
She and her hubby Jared have plenty of time to use their White House connections to grift more money for themselves. They certainly don't appear to be doing anything else.
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Thoughts and prayers, Ivanka. Thoughts and prayers.
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@Marcel
Thoughts: Trumps lie. Trumps cheat. Trumps are crooks.
Prayer: That they will all vanish from our government.
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Excellent advice for Ivanka Trump.
And I would really like to know what she's going to do with all those trademarks squirreled away since DJT wrangled them out of China? Are they for use later on, after she's tired of playing "West Wing", and Daddy's done with destroying America in the background?
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As a result of her father's lies and allegiance to Russia, Ivanka Trump and her husband and co-conspirator Jared Kushner have become radioactive brands. They have disappeared from public view. Gone are the days and nights when they would swan around in formal wear for boring dinners for publicity for their brands and their father's popularity.
When was the last time we saw Ivanka? Her name is forever mud. That's pretty bad branding.
I wish we could put the whole famiy out of the White House the way she closed her company. Quickly.
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She can expect to be taken seriously because she has an utterly unrealistic view of: 1) life & the world; 2) her influence with her dad; and 3) her place in the scheme of things. As an example, though all the evidence is to the contrary, Ivanka thinks her dad empowers women because he helped her get her business going.
My sense is she closed up shop before she had to file for bankruptcy. Oh, and that she will continue to be a bust in politics; she has no credibility with anyone in DC.
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Many good suggestions here for how Ivanka could make herself useful. They're half-measures, but they're starting points from which a strong, committed woman starting from a high-profile, influential position would soon develop into an effective champion of women's rights and civil liberties.
But in this case they are cast as pearls before swine.
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Heavy lifting? That's a good one.
I think she is there as window dressing and nothing else. I am not convinced that even Trump takes her seriously.
If she were serious about public service, she would educate herself about how government works, about how running a government is different from running a New York fashion brand, about the separation of powers, about the constitution, about the meaning of "complicit", etc. Reputedly she is a genius, so prove it.
Oh, and she should learn how to sit there answer challenging questions, rather than slink off in a huff when interviewers don't buy what she is selling.
If she cannot get a handle on these simple things, I don't think she has a future in politics.
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I’d be happy if Ivanka can persuade her father to quit the job and just enjoy his life, at least for the sake of her children. History shows what happens to authoritarian leaders, it’s not pretty.
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So it's OK for Republicans to propose that working stiffs take "paid time off by borrowing against future Social Security benefits" while giving our tax dollars to the already uber wealthy with more tax cuts. And impose trade tariffs that hurt farmers then bail out farmers.
The despicable never ends with these people.
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I don't get his kids. Many of us have or have had a parent who is toxic for one reason or another, but have learned to distance ourselves as adults. Trump's kids are well-educated, presumably have some of their own money by now, so why do they so steadfastly support this man as he demeans them? I guess it's the abuser-abused relationship, something further for psychiatrists to dissect when they've all left D.C.
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@Karen K, I think the most admirable Trump adult kid is Tiffany, because we never hear from or about her - and that's a good thing, both for her and us.
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This is a great summary of how harmful the MAGA program has been for 50% of the country's population. Sadly, I don't think Ivanka will be able to save the day, and in fact, I'd prefer it if she'd concentrate on her plastic-y nude pumps and stay out of Washington and public policy all together. Clearly, she has no business there either.
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Ivanka is under Daddy’s thumb - she does not have an original thought - borrowing against Social Security - do she and Rubio have any idea what people are paid - a maximum of $3000 a month for the highest earners - ridiculous! The elite have no idea how the other 99.9% live.
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It is clear that the only thing Ms.Trump could do that would benefit women is to persuade her father to resign. Beyond that, she is totally unqualified, clueless and useless when it comes to making progress on on this, or any other issue, for that matter.
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Not being able to shift product due to the actions of her father and her proximity to him should have been predicted. She will now do what all Trumps do, sue him.
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The "R.I.P." premise of this editorial is all wrong notwithstanding its admirable content. No, there should be no "peace" for Ivanka. If she has a conscience, it should be informed by the fact that while she acts as a faux public servant she is in fact an unethical grifter who has shamelessly exploited her family ties for personal gain. Her co-starring role in cheapening the value of public service and elevating nepotism will be long remembered after she folds her namesake fashion brand.
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Since all of Ivanka's accomplishments and failures are based on who her father is and not anything she did or didn't do, it might show some flicker of self awareness that she is focusing on her "work" in Washington only for the "foreseeable future". Could she realize that once her father is out, no one in Washington will answer her calls?
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@BillFNYC
That “foreseeable future” bit is frightening.
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"When we first started this brand, no one could have predicted the success that we would achieve..."
So, let's examine this: Ivanka, the fashion line, is compelled to cease operations in spite of tremendous success. Sounds just like someone she's closely related to, doesn't it?
The Trump family is all about lies, ego, ulterior motives and, above all, greed. It reeks of corruption and hypocrisy.
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"If a self-proclaimed champion of female empowerment like Ivanka Trump can’t speak out on these most basic of issues, how can she expect anyone to take her seriously?"
No one ever took her seriously.
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Is Ivanka as "tired of all the winning" as the rest of us? How ironic (and so fitting) that Ivanka's own business collapse is the result of her father's trade war with our allies! When Canada's Hudson's Bay stores declared they would no longer carry IT goods, Ivanka closes her shop the next week. We do not need ethically challenged nepotists in our government. (Her only function seems to be to soften her father's mysognistic image, anyway.) As her father's employee it is on her watch also that the US is now known for what would be a war crime....if we were only at war....of separating children including infants from their parents -- without a record or even a thought as to ever reuniting them.
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You're invited to laugh if you wish when considering that Ivanka Trump, 36, and her husband, Jared Kushner, 37, neither with any relevant qualifications whatsoever, each has the title of SENIOR adviser to the president of the United States, complete with West Wing office space in our White House.
Even for grifters, this takes nepotism to new depths in a swamp -- actually, more of an abyss -- that seems bottomless. To make matters worse, Type T outrage fatigue, the virulent Trumpian strain, isn't covered by health insurance and may be incurable for at least 2 1/2 more years. Leaving us to continue our rapid descent into collective numbness, if not madness.
Evidently, this is what candidate Donald Trump meant when he said we would get tired of winning. Meanwhile, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution remains ignored, even scoffed at, and, yes, we're still waiting to see those tax returns and the extent of the Trump Organization's ties to Russian financiers.
Who would have ever thought that we'd let the Trump -- or any -- presidency get away with behaving like an oligarchy? But so far, it has.
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I really don't know why she did this however this is what all trumps should do if they want to be part of the US government. Ivanka seems nice however she is just a rich kid running around trying to look important and to look like she is doing something. I would put her in the same category as the English Royals.
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The English royals have a lot more history, and a lot more class.
Ask yourself -- would you rather have Queen Elizabeth II and her brood as the public face of your nation and history -- or Trump and his?
Case closed.
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The invisble hand of the market bcame visible, and it swatted the Princess Royal's exploitative line of overpriced knock offs aside.
Shed no tears.
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If there is one consistency regarding the Trumps, it is that even their 'successful' endeavors fail after 5-6 years. If Trump can make it 4 years before being banished from politics forever that will improve upon his record in most other fields.
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I guess now Trump will feel compelled to compensate Ivanka too, just like US farmers. Ivanka understands how the Trump brand has become irrevocably tarnished with perhaps even more damage to it in the near future. Ivanka is making a smart business move by cutting her loses now. We should all be thinking about the same.
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Early in her dad's tenure, Ivanka Trump was "Drifting around the Hill, holding informational talks with Republican women, mostly to get a sense of how the basic legislative process works..."
I read a few years ago that the Trump children couldn't vote in the N.Y. primary election because they were not registered to vote.
It's no wonder it's a political mess out there. Whatever the family is doing, the family is totally unqualified to do it.
Bring back civics courses in our schools.
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"I do not know when or if I will ever return to the business."
Notice the word "if."
As if we didn't already guess, here's an indication that Donald Trump plans to stay on forever as president, and that Ivanka will be his successor.
We are in trouble.
(By the way, Ivanka's having to lay off only 18 employees suggests that not only did the manufacturing of her brand happen oversees but also the designing happened elsewhere. Everything outsourced.)
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Pay attention to this. It isn’t just Ivanka’s business going away it is the reality that the Trump approach to branding has reached its limits. The Trump empire is reaching its maximal extent and from here on there will be one retrenchment after another. Trump has been on the upswing for several years but now a crash is coming.
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She is just following standard family strategy. Close the rick and mortar businesses, retain the valuable trademarks, make millions more licensing the ‘brand’ when the time is right.
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I think this is truly terrifying news. My first thought was that she is preparing for a run in 2020.
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@Frau Greta
She is. Intact, she and Jared have actually discussed which one of them should run for president first. (Made in China, indeed.)
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@Frau Greta - similar reaction. Thought she plans on staying in DVC one way or the other .
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Rest assured that Ivanka Trump is closing down her fashion brand for a very good reason. She’ll reside in Washington to become a full time attendee at the White House and learn the difficulties and skills of the political world. She’ll be nurturing her father’s base to become a Presidential candidate in 2020. Remember this is the year in which women are moving forward in politics and Republicans have found the perfect candidate.
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No, the main reason she is closing it down is because she isn't making the money she was. What kind of severance do you think she will give the 18 employees?
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Makes sense. She’s as venal as her father but better looking. Exactly what else Trump voters want.
BTW. I’ve from NYC friends in those circles that she and Jared would not be welcomed back.
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The thought of that know nothing grifter running for president is a joke. I hope she does , so we can expose her for the fraud she is.
Pretty amusing. As if Ivanka Trump has ever "hunkered down" and really worked at anything. She's a well intentioned kid who is in way over her head.
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Sorry. Not well-intentioned. Not at all.
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‘Well intentioned kid’. Ivanka Trump has benefited from her father’s criminal racist misogynist actions her entire life. And she remains #complicit in this administration’s daily assaults on women, children, people of color, the environment, our democracy and the rule of law.
She and her husband are notorious slumlords who are monetizing ther nepotistic positions of power in countless violations of ethics regulations.
Well intentioned? Ivanka will never jeopardize her position on daddy’s lap.
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Jaso Turner. Well intentioned "kid"? She is a grown woman with children! Don't make excuses for this pampered BarbieDoll who grew up with every opportunity to turn into a mature, thoughtful individual. Sorry.
No one takes Ivanka seriously except her father and her husband.
It’s not clear that her employees have any reason to take her seriously either: online sales of Ivanka Trump products plummeted 45% last year. I wouldn’t respect a boss who got results like that.
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@Cousy Her father doesn't take her seriously either. Doubtful her husband does. Probably not even her kids do.
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@Cousy You must be referring to the campaigns set up to deliberately cut off sales opportunities for this clothing line. The 2017 results do not reflect what the normal operations would be, or does it?
It must be fun to kick someone when they're down.
Senator Rubio’s idea to use future money to pay for family is morally bankrupt.
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What I missed including in my comment was the mention of future Social Security payments being used to pay for family leave as suggested by Senator Rubio, as stated in the article.
It’s still morally bankrupt.
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@Jordan Davies Yeah, I read that one and wanted to vomit. If using the benefits now did not effect the future payments it might be worth a look. But will bet, future benefits would be reduced. Sick idea, from a sick man, attempting to play like a leader.
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@Jordan Davies -- more precisely it's a gross moral hazard: enabling, even encouraging, people to do something disastrous.
The important work Ivanka is focusing on is babysitting her unstable train wreck of a father. He is spinning closer to a total meltdown and that would be disastrous for Ivanka’s future ambitions. As for actually impacting legislation or governance, please. The lovely Ivanka has less preparation, knowledge, and ability than my eleven year old niece. She is a high level babysitter, that is all. It is a condemnation of the Republican Party that such a job is both necessary and important.
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@aem A babysitter indeed. A good one? Nah.....
If Ivanka is serious about separating herself from any talk of taking advantage of her personal situation for financial gain, she should separate herself from Jared Kushner, that syncophantic mediocrity of a husband of hers- who is in WAAY WAAY OVER HIS DEPTH when it comes to negotiating anything (but not in terms of corruption of course!). His father had to pay Harvard $2.5 million over 5 years to get him admitted because of his 'stellar' grades in high school. Apparently he wasn't the brightest bulb in his classes there either!
Corruption seems to attract corruption, kinda like magnets! As they say, 'behind every great fortune is a great crime'. Except there is no great fortunes involved with the above families. Only non existent tax returns and petty criminality which abuses everyone who has the ill fortune to cross their path.
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Ivanka Kushner, oh um Trump, is likely benefiting financially from her husband’s family’s disgusting, dishonorable and ignoble real estate dealings which have included, per NYTimes and others, massive harassment of tenants and even abusive “construction” practices that expose tenants and others to serious toxins that may cause life-long and/or life-ending health problems. It’s hard to feel sorry for someone living off blood money.
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@The Fun-duh-mentalist hear heat. Trump inc is one big scam on the USA.
@The Fun-duh-mentalist
Their fortunes are bigger than you think. They are smart enough to take the advice of their Russian business partners and put most of their money in off shore banks and Swiss accounts. What we see in their tax returns is just the money they use for walking around. So yes, their fortunes are great and so is their crime.
OK, I'd like to offer a somewhat dissenting view:
The woman lost her business. I give Ivanka credit for at least starting her own business, unlike her brothers. And unlike many of her father's businesses, Ivanka's at least delivered a product that more of less lived up to its marketing.
Now, she is (quite rightly) being ridiculed for positioning herself as a women's advocate in the Trump Administration. Also, her husband faces possible legal and financial problems in the future.
So, while I agree with the second part of the editorial I do take issue with the triumphalist/catty tone of the first half. Ivanka lost something of value that was her own accomplishment -- all due to her Nasty Man father and her own crazy notions of actually accomplishing something in his morally bankrupt administration.
i don't exactly feel sorry for her but, well, I guess I do feel a bit sorry for her.
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@Duncan Her own accomplishment? Without the Trump name, and financial backing, would her enterprise have ever got off the ground? She's no Kate Spade.
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@Duncan I agree with you Duncan. She deserves credit for her initiative. However, when retail discounter T.J. Maxx moved her line to its clearance racks, I knew the game was up.
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@Duncan Actually, her namesake company was a subsidiary of the Trump Organization. It was really started as a vanity fashion line around the same time Donald started selling his ties at Macy’s. Prior to that, according to The Apprentice, she was a VP for her father’s commercial real estate business.
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Its disingenuous to try to diminish Trump's presidency as self serving. Not true. He doesn't need more money. He doesn't even take a salary, unlike Obama.
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@Patrick McCord seriously? Within days of being elected he nearly doubled the membership rates at his country club. He had spent nearly 20% of his time in office at one of his own properties, charging the country for rooms for his security detail and staff. 70% of buyers of Trump properties since he took office have been shell companies, as opposed to 4% in a normal year, so the possibility that these are foreign governments or US based special interest groups is real, and according to USNEWS, "political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during his first year in office, after never having spent more than $100,000 'in any given year going back to at least 2002.' " and that's just the beginning. There are the dozens of patents -- previously denied- granted Trump's businesses from China, the 100+ government employees who suddenly felt compelled to vacation at Trump properties, the 35 times White House officials have hawked Trump branded properties.... The list goes on.
I don't think it's the editorial board who is being disingenuous .
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The Constitution requires the President be paid a salary. The framers wanted to ensure that the person in office would not succumb to conflicts of interest.
Almost all presidents have accepted the salary. Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Eisenhower....all were paid. Why single out Obama?
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@Patrick McCord
So you think it's a good thing that the president should be rich enough to not take a salary? That leaves very few people who could ever hold the job, and flys in the face of
the very American idea of working your way up. Sounds like a kingdom or oligarchy and not a democracy.
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Well said, NYT, but who's going to take Ivanka Trump seriously anyway, no matter what she says or tries? Washington is no place for an intellectual featherweight wholly dependent on daddy's money (if any) and mob-boss style contacts.
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One of IT’s projects last week was promoting “hire America”. Am I the only person who sees what a joke this is. Maybe if she had moved some manufacturing jobs to the U.S., instead of closing down because she would not make another 5 million in 2018.
Don’t worry, she will survive. She is a grifter, just like her father.
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@Beth S. I’m trying not to see her as the poison pilll on women’s rights etc. please. I wish the whole family would disappear into their former lives as grade A criminals. Ivanka is a willing accomplice, a veritable chip off the old block,a phony, self dealing fraud.
@Beth S
We now live in a grifter country. If you don't have a scam you can't survive in America.
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Strange this comes at the same time as those Chinese tariffs!! I seriously doubt she wants to do good for anyone but herself. And paid maternity leave? When most Americans are working for wages barely able to scrape by - and have no decent healthcare plan. NOT going to happen with this administration, who could care less about average families.
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@Anne
If this is a democracy where the voice of the people rule, how is it that most Americans are working for wages that are barely able to scrape by and why is it that they have no decent healthcare plan? If the people wanted dignity, a living wage, and healthcare, wouldn't they have voted them in a long time ago?
Ivanka Trump spoke in praise of her father at the Republican National Convention, saying that he had "the kindness and compassion that this country needs." The next morning, she tweeted, "Shop Ivanka's look from her #RNC speech."
What has Trump done for women and children?
• Today we learn that probably the parents of close to 500 immigrant children who were taken from their families have been deported.
• In May, the Trump administration proposed stripping Title X Family Planning Program funding from family planning clinics such as Planned Parenthood.
• There is still only an acting director in the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women, and the Trump budget funded the office at a level that was $100 million lower than the current funding level, and the payment is diverted from the Crime Victims Fund.
• The 2017 Women's March was the largest single-day protest in the history of the United States. Within a few days, Trump issued his global gag rule, which negatively impacted the health and lives of millions of girls and women.
•Today a tape was released with another Trump payment just before the election about silencing the Playboy model he had a year-long extramarital affair with.
As Abigail Adams wrote, "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
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@smb
Good to see rational argument.
Yes I am old fashioned but in the Westminster system it is uncustomary to appoint family members by any government official, including the Prime Minister to positions paid a salary from the public purse in any capacity without the scrutiny of Parliament, a body elected by the public.
The Queen may appoint any person of her choosing subject to the approval of Parliament.
Ms Trump, Mr Kushner and Mr Trump Jr are paid from the public purse.
Their capacities and roles, competence and remuneration are not made public or credentialed by scrutiny of Congress.
Nor are they required to disclose fiduciary matters that may impinge upon their capacity to objectively and primarily implement the policies of the US government as paid civil servants.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Mr Putin's grandmother could get an internship in the White House as a clerk reading and rubber stamping "Top Secret" papers.
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Pity (sarcasm).
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The world will miss more cheap overpriced Chinese made shoes.
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As noted here, sales are down. That's why she's closing shop. Not because she wants to properly divest or otherwise behave like an ethical public servant.
There is no reason to give her the benefit of the doubt. We know what the Trump family is all about. Who in their right mind would buy anything that has their brand on it?
Of course Ms. Trump has been all talk when it comes to real constructive improvements vis-a-vis paid family leave and other women's issues. This administration has been horrific toward women. Ms. Trump has not moderated this. She has enabled it.
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I find it remarkable that the Times could entertain for even a moment the notion that Ivanka Trump Kushner might redeem herself in some way, serve some purpose beside the interests of herself and her family. Sacrifice for the public good? It is to laugh.
That’s not what the Trump brand stands for. There is nothing in the Trump family record to show that any of them understand that idea, let alone that any of them would be capable of acting on it - other than by accident.
Should it really be necessary to remind everyone that her position is based on nothing but nepotism? She’s even less qualified than her father. Without the Trump name behind her, she would be no one of importance.
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@Larry Roth
She is no one of importance even with the name, Mr. Roth. It has been suggested, recently, that the name Trump increases one's unimportance by perhaps as much as 175%.
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@Larry Roth Bravo Mr Roth! Thank you for the remarkable ability to see things are they are, without the distortions of the jungle - mind, or the smugness of the chattering classes.
As long as their are no civics studies in high school we will have a large number of people who have a right to their economic rage, blaming whoever powerful thugs say is the problem. This really isn't the 21st century, its the timeless strategy of keeping the young and poor at war - home and abroad, and denying them the free gift of how to think about power.
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@Larry Roth. Yes the Media needs to get serious in exposing the ivanka grift.
Ivanka's label was a fraud from the beginning. She hired everything. She did no designing, no production, no organizing, no accounting -- all handed to other people. How some people can praise this kind of predatory capitalism is beyond me.
For more detail I refer to the previous comment by "et.al.nyc".
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@Thomas Zaslavsky -- You are correct about FRAUD.
https://footwearnews.com/2016/business/power-players/ivanka-trump-busine...
https://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-jewelry-business
Not every business is a manufacturer. Sourcing and managing vendor relationships to secure goods to sell to customers is what most businesses in a consumerist society do. Please do not confuse and diminish the dignity of value-adding businesses that source and arrange manufacturing of quality goods in bulk, handle logistics to move from manufacturer to point of purchase, promote products to build awareness of them and spur sales, and pay for all the labor plus a profit margin to business owners for all it, with those who destroy value by DEFRAUDING persons throughout value-chain.
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@Thomas Zaslavsky
This is the standard model of modern American capitalism. Don't blame Ivanka for being a product of her times. Blame the country that loves this model and has put it in power over everything.
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These are the results (albeit minor) when economic populism ''trumps'' the policies of unpopular government figures and policies.
You have the power of the purse to affirm change, just as much as you have the power of the vote.
Now if we can all start buying and supporting local.
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Isn't Ivanka Trump's assertion that she is winding down her fashion brand ion the basis that "my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington" inconsistent with the claim that she had stepped down from her business 17 months ago. If she really stepped down from her business, what prevented her from focusing on her WH role in that period.
This is another example of a failed Trump business venture, and of a Trump's ability to dress up failure in success. Let's not buy her spin any more than we bought her brand.
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@Rebecca Reality is she's shutting down a loosing proposition, that is, loosing money.
I'm delighted the Ivanka brand has been closed, and look forward to the larger Trump brand to do the same. They are a stain on America's reputation, and a reminder that the man and his family are synonymous with lying, false accusations, unethical behaviour, and potential treason (particularly DJT Jr.).
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Come visit us in NYC and you’ll see that the Trump name has been removed from several of his buildings. It’s happening!
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Great news! Now there's room in the market for WarrenWear, a stunning collection of power suits in paradigm shiftingly stunning jewel tones.
Rock the right wing while you can rock your look with WarrenWear, Persistent Style you can take to the bank. As long as the bank passes the stress test.
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LOL, very cute. I'd buy WarrenWear!
To really help women, all of the remaindered inventory should be donated to them to be able to go back to the workforce.That would show that Ivanka could do something positive that she hasn’t done to date in any of her endeavors.
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@ptep have you seen her clothing ?
@ptep
Her clothes will be ground up and made into cat food that will be sold to the third world as children's dietary supplements. She will take a charitable write off for Billions and will make a second fortune on that. Grifting is an art and she is an artist.
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There is a difference between closing down a business and stepping away from running it.
Untill now, Ivanka chose to step away from running it. So, why close it down now?
Given that her business sales figures have been disappointing, it is reasonable to assume that she was facing bankruptcy, making her statement to focus on her White House job as the reason very disingenuous.
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@Thomas
Because we, the people, have succeeded in voting with our pocketbooks.
Remember that, America - we have the power!
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@Thomas
I expect that the money she used to start the business was borrowed and not hers. I also expect that she will simply default on the loan and a bank somewhere will bear the brunt of this bankruptcy. And she is in a position where no bank can get their money back. So she used someone else's money to start a business of which she skimmed the early profits and then let others suffer the losses. That sounds like classic Republican business principles to me. They just might think she has what they are looking for in 2020.
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Wondering if there was pressure from the Chinese government because of the ongoing tariff war that her made-in-China label somehow miraculously escaped? She’ll never tell. She’s complicit.
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Gee, I hope this doesn't affect her business in China that manufactures $5000 wristwatches. I was just about to order a dozen of them...
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In a related press release, fake women's champion and soulless, spoiled rotten millionaire daughter of a fake billionaire Presidential impersonator Ivanka Trump said:
“When I first started being a fake Presidential adviser, no one could have predicted the total lack of success I have achieved..... except for almost everyone in America. After 17 months looking in a full-length mirror to make sure I look perfectly fashionable and perfectly vacuous in Washington, I do not know when or if I will ever grow a heart, a soul or any heartfelt concern for average Americans, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will continue to be the fake work I am doing here in Washington, because America's women deserve the very same fake, phony and fraudulent Trumpian leadership that my father provides to resentful, religious, rural, Republican rubes throughout this great country of ours.”
"As long as women continue to be serially groped, abused, mistreated, underpaid and forced to bear unwanted male sperm by Mad Men misogynists like my father, Pastor Pence and the rest of the Grand Old Pervert party, then rest assured that I will be here in the nation's capital fakely fighting for women's rights as Christian Shariah Law and forced pregnancies become the law of the land under this radical right-wing administration".
"I will always fight for American women....whose last name is Trump"
The rotten apples sure don't fall far from the rotten tree.
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@Socrates: It's time to speak truth. Not all resentful, religious Trump voters by any means were rural or rubes. Many were well educated and well off, and maybe not all that religious.
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@Socrates at this point my reservoir of spleen runneth low...so many daily Trump indignities, I feel like Toshiro Mifune looks at the end of “Throne of Blood”.
Thank you for this comment and others. They help.
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@Socrates
You keep this American woman SANE daily! You have no idea how many Americans and those around the world you help. November can't come soon enough. "I can't breathe" comes to mind. Each hour of each day!
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Ivanka needs to be thinking ahead to when Daddy, hubby, and two brothers are all peering out from the bars of the greybar hotels. The money trail will gather them all up and deliver them into the hands of the courts eventually.
Better she should stick with the expensive clothing line and watch the children.
All that do-gooding for her old man won't count for anything once his political base finally figures out that the Russkies are still the bad guys and he can't tell the good guys from the bad guys. Otherwise, she's going down with the ship.
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@Honey Oh Ivanka deserves to be exactly where her father and brothers should be in the same orange jump suits. Remember, she and her brother were going to be prosecuted for felony in the Trump Soho tower until the NY AG got a "gift" from the Trumps. And Ivanka was the Trump head who ran that hotel project in Azerbijan, the one who partnered with a local billionaire (saved from an official salary of $12,000) suspected of being in league with an Iranian terrorist group. (Another felony if proved.) The Trumps dropped it like a hot potato upon winning the election and it has never opened.
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@Honey
Oh, it is to dream!
NYT, these shallow catty comments do not suit you. Acting like mean tween girls is not professional and should be beneath a paper of such stature. A shame really as you are as much a part of the problem as you think President Trump is.
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@Lazarus: Every one of those suggestions is morally and ethically supportable. The Times is showing how much she could do if she wanted to, which naturally demonstrates how much she doesn't want to.
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@Lazarus She is now a world political figure, made so by the nepotism of her father, and should receive all the criticism and accolades a public figure deserves. Unfortunately, hardly any accolades, and much criticism for her positions. I criticize her for taking on a role she was neither qualified to handle, nor ethically positioned.
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Shallow? Catty? This essay pays Ivanka Trump the compliment of being frank: about her utter lack of qualifications as any kind of advisor (because she has neither political experience nor expertise), her grotesque privilege, and her not inconsiderable power to do good, if she had the guts to stand up for causes that she has thus far paid only lip service to. She is no different from the rest of the incompetent staff the NYT has skewered; do you think the NYT analysts should go easier on her because she’s the president’s daughter? A product of pure nepotism?
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I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it seems beneath the times to be so snarky even to this clearly under-qualified daughter of the president
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@Michael.
There is not a whiff of snark in this piece. Well, nude pumps perhaps. It is written in a straight as an arrow style. Deadpan even.
The humor emerges because the reader knows that the Grifter-in-chief’s elder daughter is completely incapable of accomplishing any of these suggestions.
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@Michael
Why do you read it as "snarky," Michael? It's criticism; it's what has brought down tyrants and scoundrels throughout history.
It's the might of the pen.
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Wrong. The Editorial Board is spot on.
apologies to G and S's Princess Ida
I’m Jared's wife Ivanka, I’m the daughter of the Don,
I live a Life in clover, unlike Butler's Erewhon,
I had a line of products which the Public didn’t buy
Daddy would tweet malevolence to stores short on supply
I seem to run his businesses,in fact I never do
The Trust he built is phony he makes all decisions, too,
I act as an adviser yet my knowledge is so scant
I’d like to advance womankind but Daddy says I can’t
And I don’t know why!
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@Larry Eisenberg: Nice. The man knows how to use classics.
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@Thomas Zaslavsky
Thank you, I'm glad you like it.
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@Larry Eisenberg
We love you, Larry.
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Sorry, no can do.
Ivanka is way too busy helping Jared on Gaza.
So much progress. So little publicity.
Let these remarkable icons of public service and probity rest in the privacy their deeds merit.
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Ivanka is nothing but a complicit criminal who belongs in jail.
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Not a word about the organized protests against her clothing line which caused some retailers to discontinue selling it?
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To Ivanka the Terrible:
We don't really care!
From,
All the Americans who are repelled by your moral bankruptcy.
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@Father Time
Oh, excellent!
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OK on the article. Kudos (?) to Ms. Trump for doing the right thing, regardless of her motivations.
But ... did you really have to include links to her products which might still be available online? Are you trying to help her sell her last remaining products?
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Real designers built their brand with original talent and hard work. IT had neither
It had to buckle. Her daddy's foul attitude didn't help either!
SAD!
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At least no American jobs will be lost!
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@Bob Not so. The article says 18 people will be laid off. Probably the state-side marketing and merchandising staff, not to mention job losses for all the middle-men in transportation, finance, et. al.
Here's hoping all the other Trump family businesses likewise end up shuttered... and soon.
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I have zero sympathy for the people who lose those jobs.
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Well played NYT. A tip of the hat to this clever little bit of shaming. It strikes just the right balance to perchance have an impact on its stated target.
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"There's also, of course, Ivanka. She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she's about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. She's done nothing to satisfy women. So, I guess, like father, like daughter."
- Michelle Wolf
Yep, that about says it all.
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we have a corrupt president,a complicit family, lackeys lining up. Please keep telling the truth about their villainy.
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Why would you think that Ivanka is capable of any independent action? What has she ever done to show that she has a mind of her own, or would ever go against her father? She clings to him like saran wrap, and consequently she has no integrity or character. This is shown by the fact that she knows how he treats women, particularly her mother, and has stayed silent about everything.
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Saran wrap, brilliant!
Maybe she could advocate for the education and empowerment of women around the world so that they can be like her and have the power to make their own decisions about work, reproduction, partners and family without the heavy hand of abusive, patriarchal, men and societies.
#metoo
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Ahh, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Another failed business for the family of bankrupt casinos, bailed out luxury condos, fake universities, and dying golf courses. Thankfully they have the American taxpayer to support them in their future interests.
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"But hiring Bill Shine as deputy White House communications chief? Really? Having spent years enabling the grotesque predations of the late Fox News chief Roger Ailes, Mr. Shine was so toxic that most reputable organizations wouldn’t have hired him to scrape dried gum off their sidewalks. Mr. Trump’s putting him in such a senior position speaks volumes about this administration’s views on women in the workplace. Ms. Trump should demand better." No one, I repeat, no one says the word "no" to a raving raging malignant narcissist EVER. They do not take that word lightly and usually tend to explode very quickly with verbal and sometimes physically intimidating/assaults. It shuts down and freezes everyone around them. They turn into frozen rabbits. They freak out, leak like crazy to the press to give us mere mortals a glimpse into the madness that is Trump's "misadministration" working right on cue, scandal after scandal, getting ever more wild by the week, now twice a week, deflect/distract/accuse/attack. Folks, take a step back and look at this situation as if you are the adult and Trump is the tantruming man-child who never grew up knowing what boundaries are, what limit setting and consequences are for and how they are applied, to respect others as well as yourself, be trustworthy, take pride in being a hard worker and an honest, trustworthy person. This is what we are dealing with, and the Cult45 members that refuse to see that their "emperor" has no clothes.
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If she really wanted to help the country, she would put her father in a nursing home and give us some peace.
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@Kara, what a wonderful idea! And so obvious in retrospect.
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@Kara reading your comment made me laugh for the first time today. Thanks for the amusing but much needed recommendation to Ivanka. I hope she takes it...
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If Trump goes to a nursing home, they'd better lock down that bingo bucket so it doesn't declare bankruptcy too!
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The dwindling $5 million from Ivanka's clothing business is a drop in the bucket compared to the $82 million that Ivanka and Jared raked in during Trump's first year in office.
And NO self-respecting "sensibly stylish mom" would be caught dead in Ivanka's 4 inch stilettos (that this editorial inexplicably includes a link to purchase?!)
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@common sense advocate
Don't criticize a grifter for being a grifter. When this is all over the Trump family will be in the grifter hall of fame and drinking champagne on their yachts. The rest of us will be paying off their debt for the rest of our lives. They are laughing at us and they always will be.
@Bobotheclown I hear you. I saw an estimate that just the farmers' $12 billion handout (that they didn't want or need before Trump's ridiculous tariff war) will cost average taxpayers $100 each.
Well surprise - don’t know if you’ve noticed - but if you discount the money Trump’s old man gave him, every business he or his family have personally tried to run has been a dismal failure.
Atlantic City -three bankruptcies
Trump “University” fined 25 million for fraud
Run down apartment buildings here in NYC sued for discrimination
Losing money golf courses... on and on and on
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Timothy L. O’Brian’s ‘TrumpNation’ spells it all out.
@Steven
Someone should make a complete list of Trumps failures and publish it everyday in every red state. I wonder why his failures seem off limits to the competition?
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@Steven, I don't know why, though there are failures a national/worldwide boycott on anything "Trump" has not been suggested or at least I haven't seen it. If our congress will not support the emoluments clause maybe the people should do what we can. We derail his and his family's ultimate payoff, which would amount to any advantage he would gain from his sellout of America. Let's start today!
i read that her brand will still exist as a white label -- true or not, i don't know. that said, she and her complicit husband have been keeping a low profile in public lately, hopefully because they have been shamed into uderstanding that the lies and theft that they have been adjacent to for decades might have gone undetected had they remained private, but the more public they are the more their rotten to the core activities will be exposed
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Sober assessment of the hypocrisy of Trump's nepotism and unresolved conflicts of interest. Ivanka has no credible role in the White House; being so smart, she ought to know better than to lend herself to her father's misogynous abuse without a forceful and public cry for justice. Whatever she does with her own business, which was tainted by special favors precisely because she was her father's daughter, is her choice; but staying in the White House is abhorrent. And she and Donald do know it. But shameless thus far, an awful example for women in general, as she tries to redeem herself in seeking remedy for her father's abuse of power. She must know her father's despicability has no remedy, his bullying (cowardice in disguise) a disgrace for the country and abroad. Doesn't she read, and see and hear what's going on, draw her own conclusions?
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Serial adulterer Trump gives preference to abstinence only education over more effective programs, so his policy is "Do as I say, don't do as I do." Serial adulterer Trump said avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was equal to fighting in Vietnam. The best thing Ivanka could do is to teach her father to be wise, considerate, and thoughtful but with his history, she probably doesn't want to touch him with a ten foot pole.
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@Linda; on the contrary. Like father, like daughter, except that being female she has to be more restrained.
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My only thought is that I will gobble up many of her clothes when they appear discounted 70% off list price at Burlington on 14th street ,store them for awhile, then of course sell them on Ebay when the Donald has become just a past nightmare we so well endured after the 2020 elections.
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@Carlyle T. I can see Melania quickly moving into that fashion space. MELANKA - capitalizing on the remnants of the brand and the existing infrastructure
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It is easy for Mrs. Kushner to close her company because she will not have to worry about housing or feeding her children. Not so for other workers struggling in the dying New York fashion industry. Celebrity brands are built on the genius of underpaid designers and the underpaid production team that understands how to produce quality clothing. Too many of these talented, well educated people are paid at close to minimum wage, and more and more, on an "hourly" basis, sans benefits. Their positions are outsourced to "consulting" companies abroad. Once thriving midtown factories are boarded shut so that production can be done overseas as cheaply as possible, worker rights an afterthought. How might Mrs. Kushner address this problem, if she does at all? There has been little modernization in this industry. Smart minds don't have the money to introduce modern production methods. Mrs. Kushner was able to start and maintain her "label" because she already had the startup money to do so. She is able to walk away because she is rich. Not so for the average worker in the fashion industry who may be laid off tomorrow.
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My friend's daughter spent three years as an unpaid intern in the fashion world. It's the Republican way. No pay for 60 hours of work, but you are learning from the best. Yeah.
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Apparently, Ivanka's decision to shut down her brand to focus on her advisory duties wasn't entirely altruistic. Her line of clothing, cosmetics and the like was an abject failure. She didn't really need the money but that's beside the point. She was using her name and position, with the encouragement of Kellyanne Conway, to sell her fashion brand around the world.
Ivanka professed concern about paid maternity leave and quality day care for children but her eyes never left the prize of profits. Like her father, she abused the emoluments clause and traded her name and influence for personal enrichment.
A capitalist at heart, Ivanka wouldn't dream of suspending her line of clothing if it were doing well with global sales just to focus on her White House duties, whatever that means. Like her father, she's in it for the money. Like her step-mother, she really doesn't care about anything other than her own brand.
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@silver vibes - Ivanka stepping away from her business to focus on Washington is just like those politicians who resign to focus on spending time with their families.
Anything to avoid admitting that they were forced out due to their own failure.
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@silver vibes
I like to think we Canadians had a little something to do with it.
Many of us have been boycotting Hudson's Bay Company (one of our oldest department stores and indeed, Canada's oldest company, now owned by US interests) for a long time now and last week they (who also own Lord & Taylor and Saks) finally announced that they would no longer carry Ivanka.
Hoping this was the proverbial straw, to be followed by many others.
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@silver vibes
“A capitalist at heart....”
She’s not a capitalist. She’s a grifter. Just like her Daddy.
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Where this outcome is proper for Ivanka and in the end should have happened 18 months ago … it’s a very different matter for her father.
Ivanka is a very wealthy 36-year-old who will almost certainly have start-up funds in almost any quantity available to her after her service in Washington is over in order to launch some new entrepreneurial expression. What’s more, she hadn’t invested years and years building this brand. Her father, on the other hand, is 72 and unlikely to want to start something from scratch when he leaves the presidency – he’ll want to return to a life he spent decades building.
As to her relevance in her current capacity, you folks shouldn’t look gift horses in the mouth. If she has sufficient impact on her father’s policy decisions that she nudges those decisions even a little left regardless of his need to coddle a base unto November of 2020, then it’s all pluses. I never saw her as a specific programmatic champion.
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Despite Ms. Trump’s 17 months of “public service” we haven’t seen much, if any, of her influence. Unless she’s really the one that wants children taken from their parents and held in detention. Of course, it does look pretty odd to be the owner of a company that imports most of its products from China when her father is imposing tariffs on those products.
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@Richard Luettgen
Yes, it is a very different matter for her father. He continues illegally operating and benefiting from his businesses as our, make that your, president. Too bad the Republicans don't understand the Emoluments Clause. If they did, fiscal conservatives that they are, maybe we taxpayers wouldn't have to pay top dollar for golf cart rental every weekend at Mar-A-Lago. But conservatives have always had no idea of how to run an economy without lying about it (trickle-down, anyone?) so I guess we should never expect any honesty or intelligence from them. So while I heard a constant stream of Fox News invective about how Obama's twice-a-year trips home to Hawaii were bankrupting the treasury, there is not a whimper from the clownishly hypocritical conservatives about Emoluments Man fattening himself, unconstitutionally, illegally, wantonly, at taxpayer expense. As for Ivanka, she's a Trump, which means she's a pampered phony who looks out for no one but herself. I'm not holding out much hope for her conversion to the side of humanity. She's had 18 months, one failed business (five to go!) and no sign of empathy yet.
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@Richard Luettgen: Like father, like daughter. The business Trump "spent decades building" was built by his father, who thereupon left it (along with a million-dollar loan) to The Donald- who thereupon brought it to the brink of bankruptcy on four separate occasions. The business continues to exist thanks to Trump's friends in Moscow and a few American investors who've been more impressed by the Trump name than by the wunderkind himself.
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Ironically, she would be more a effective advocate for women's rights and family leave if she resigned and lobbied as an outsider rather than working for her father. As an insider, she really is feckless and hobbled by having to tow the line, especially because of her domineering father and his management style.
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@Mark: Towing a line is very hard work. Ask any able-bodied seaman. (I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist. I don't really disagree with your comment, except that I would expect nothing from Ivanka no matter her official status.)
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@Mark - her progressive ambitions are also probably being hobbled by her not sincerely having any.
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@Mark
When it comes to the Trumps, there is no irony - just outright hypocrisy.
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Hard to imagine that "allow(ing) workers to take paid time off by borrowing against future Social Security benefits" would be considered good public policy - by anyone. So workers who want to spend time with their young children - a benefit granted to women in almost every other nation on earth - would destroy their own retirement accounts in order to do so????? What happens to these people, and our whole society, when 30-40 years later these people realize they don't have enough to retire on? Is there no other way to support families? If every other country in the world - except the richest nation on earth - can do find a way to support families with young children, why can't we? And what has Ms. Trump done to advance this cause except make empty promises???
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@catherine
You are so correct.
It's Catch-62, for sure.
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@catherine
"Hard to imagine that "allow(ing) workers to take paid time off by borrowing against future Social Security benefits" would be considered good public policy - by anyone"
When I saw that proposal, I couldn't believe that anyone with any sense could have proposed it. It's an absolutely absurd idea.
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Ms. Trump is a bit player in the drama that is her father's Presidency, and she knows it. She exists to give her father credibility with Republican women. With Ivanka, Donald Trump can "have it both ways." To moderate Republicans, she can project the persona of an independent businesswoman. To hard-right Republicans, she "knows her place" and defers to her husband and her father. Like everyone else in Trumpworld, Ivanka Trump is a creature of smoke-and-mirrors. Her fashion line was a hobby, not a job. She was never serious about it. It was all about marketing HER.
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@Jack Connolly
Which it why it is so right that her brand is the first to go down.
Remember people, we HAVE the power - we just have to use it.
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The women for whom the Ivamka Trump brand was intended didn't vote for Trump. Most of us would be too embarrassed to wear Ivanka and certainly don't want to line her fat pockets. It'll be a bit hard for a failed businesswoman to promote female entrepreneurship.
If she wants to help, she can get our ACA back, get her father to nominate Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court, get our reproductive rights bolsteted, support Planned Parenthood, and save our environment and endangered species. She should lobby for an increased federal minimum wage.
There is a lot of good she could do, but she doesn't do good. She's all talk and image as far as I can tell.
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@C K. Why would Ivanka want to "help" install a SCOTUS justice who could not be expected to rule in accordance with constitutional law? Such maneuvers only circumvent the legislative process and deny our citizens' rights to congressional representation.
It would take too long to rebut the others flaws in @CK's comments, but I will point out that it is always better to convey knowledge than uninformed criticism.
@C K
Most of the people who voted for Trump could NOT afford Ivanka Trump's creations. Only the 0.1% and the very rich and well to do in this country were able to purchase any of Ivanka Trump's clothing, shoes or handbags.
@C K
She's a blatant opportunist, just like Daddy.
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Um, it is long past the point when anyone could reasonably conceive of Ivanka as being a moderating influence on her father. Whatever she believes is a moot point. Donald Trump has a far right agenda and won’t be pulled away from it.
Yes, there was a moment when Ivanka tried to fashion herself into a political player. But that ship has sailed, along with her fashion line.
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@NM
More like hit the cold and hard iceberg of reality me friend. Almost this entire administration has been/is populated with woefully inadequate neophytes (family included) that have no business being in government at all.
Let alone profiting (through disregarding the Emoluments clause of the Constitution or otherwise) from said position.
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@NM. Maybe the ivanka ship has sailed but Mueller hasn’t.
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Thee notion of having to borrow from one's Social Security in order to pay for family leave, and still calling it "family leave", is just another example of the Trump specialty: Casual, oblivious, royalist cruelty. Unless it is simply that Ivanka is so oblivious that she think that solves a problem rather than shifting it to a time in life when you can least afford it.
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She, and the rest of her corrupt ilk, are casual, cruel and ignorant. Underneath that phony veneer is a ruthless snake.
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@appleseed She has no understanding of how the real world works. Just like her tax credits for child care. Of absolutely no use to those who need help the most.
@appleseed
As Marie Antonette famously said 'let them eat cake'
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The sentiment that Ivanka is closing her business to prepare for a Presidential run may be far fetched. She is obviously closing the business down because sales have plummeted and the company has lost money! Due mostly to public outcry and the stores selling her product listening to this outcry and dropping the sale of her brand. If she's closed a successful business due to this...I think she's smart enough to know a Presidential run would not end positively. Public outcry would likely be overwhelming even though her father still has supporters. Slowly we have seen less and less of Manafort ...where is he??..Bannon ..Kellyanne Conway ..Ivanka ..Jared..her brothers etc....due to public outcry ! Surely when they have quiet moments these people must be saying to themselves...we had a good life and businesses...why did Dad have to get us involved in a Presidential run ? We had the good life ...we had it made ! Public outcry works ! When the majority speaks...their voices are heard !!
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You are really asking too much of a daughter. Trump has a wall around his head that is rarely penetrated, except by his enemies. Instead, Ivanka could build an agenda outside of public policy by working with women outside of government. Certainly, there must be women that would accept her support for say rural health clinics or equal pay for women. She is a business person, so she could focus on influencing corporate decisions that help women in the workplace.
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@Gordon
She's a "business person" so she won't support equal pay for women.
@Gordon
Actually, American voters asked nothing of her at all - she is not elected, she is not experienced, and she should be nowhere near the levers of power.
She is nothing but a walking conflict of interest to which I say, good riddance!
@Gordon
She's on the greatest stage in the world....Her output?
Nothing....
It's not the blonde hair...it's what's in the head.
Ivanka’s excuse that she wants to focus on her “work” in Washington is a face-saving measure. The company tanked, end of story. Anyone expecting her to make any meaningful difference or to educate her father is ignoring the fact that she is the child of a raving narcissist and has, accordingly, learned how not to push his buttons and to keep him up on the shaky pedestal he demands.
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@J. - I completely agree, her company tanked because her retail network threw her merchandise out. I think another cause was the bad PR because her manufacturing had to be done in China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc. The bad PR for the Trump brand wasn't worth sustaining.
I'm cynical about the very boring charade that is put on by father and daughter of her being a "senior White House adviser." I don't think she cares if anyone takes her seriously. I think she expects everyone to see her as the logical successor to her father. She expects to take the Trump name to a ballot box and inherit his presidency. They are a family that is savvy about media exposure, but unfortunately for all of us, they fake their "caring for others" while being thoroughly greedy with an implied entitlement and a pervasive chauvinism.
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@N. C. Bosch
The ultimate revenge on the Crooked One: Ivanka, America's first female president. It's Shakespearean with a 21st twist.
In her gratuitously-exuberant book, Ivanka credits herself with inventing women’s career clothing. She is as delusional and superficially self-promoting as her father. Her “women’s advocacy” is no more than branding.
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@Susan wow - you sound so happy that a woman has failed.
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Ivanka strikes me as a dilettante in her role as advisor to the president.
Her clothing line looked good from a distance but up close they were not high quality.
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