Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld

[demmiblue]

The “first daughter” spent years rigorously cultivating her image. But she wasn’t prepared for scrutiny.

You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me. Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump. “Oh!” the president said. “Ivanka!”

Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished. “I forgot you guys were meeting—I was just coming by!” she said. “Uh-oh!”

The first daughter (though not the only daughter), wearing a fitted black mockneck and black pants, her golden hair fastened in a low twist, glided across the Oval Office. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and it was apparently vital to inform Trump, at that very moment, that Siemens had pledged to expand its education and training opportunities to more workers as part of Ivanka’s workforce-development initiative. She also wanted to remind him that tomorrow would be the inaugural session of the program’s advisory board, and that Tim Cook would be joining the meeting.

“She loves doing it,” Trump said, presumably to me but while looking at Ivanka. “And she wants no credit. Just like me, she wants no credit.” They both started laughing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/04/ivanka-trump-job-white-house/586972/

[madaboutharry]

1. The Trumps are utterly shallow and repulsive.

Ivanka is a fraud. Everything about her is fake, including the way she speaks. She is playing a role. When you see her it is as if you aren't even looking at a real person.

[lagomorph777]

6. She is Barbie's evil twin.

[FM123]

2. Good article, Atlantic always has just terrific writing...

One part of the article made me chuckle:

On a small coffee table when I visited was a book called Playa Fire—about the Burning Man festival, as I’d later learn. Seeing it there revived many of the questions I’ve had about Ivanka and her inner life—questions that, after interviewing nearly 50 people who are close to her or know her, I still can’t answer.
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So I didn’t know how to explain this book on Burning Man, a gathering that seems to represent the opposite of everything I had come to know about Ivanka. When I told a longtime friend of Ivanka’s about the book, she laughed and said, “Really? Huh.”—unsure, too, of what to make of it. It could be that Ivanka’s secret self longs to escape her name and stop wearing sheath dresses and sway to EDM on hour three of an acid trip.

This passage reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode of "How to Serve Man" when we discover that it is a cook book, not a guide to helping and serving people. Burning Man might just be her "cookbook".

[CatMor]

3. About the only one I find more boring than Ivanka ..

is Melania.

[Me.]

4. Why Haven't Dems Already Pushed The Subpoena Button?

What are they waiting for when we, their constituents, have made it clear where we stand on this matter

[marble falls]

5. I don't wonder she "doesn't want any credit," she certainly hasn't earned any. But we all ...

know she's about the same level mega-egotist daddy is also.