Ivanka Trump Has Emerged to Express Some Thoughts on the Seriousness of the Presidency
She really feels bad for her father.
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âItâs the worldâs loneliest position, the enormity of the decisions youâre making on a daily basis, how transactional everyone is with you. So itâs a very lonely perch.â âIvanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, on the seriousness of being president
Funny stuff here, in an interview Ivanka Trump did with a podcast affiliated with a lifestyle brand called âSkinny Confidentialâ (problematic?) to discuss how she views the presidency and why she is allegedly staying out of politics during her fatherâs second term:
âItâs the worldâs loneliest position, the enormity of the decisions youâre making on a daily basis, how transactional everyone is with you,â she added. âSo itâs a very lonely perch.â
She made it clear she will have no formal role in the second Trump administration.Â
âI went through years of craziness,â she said of her first tenure in the White House.
That write-up is via the Daily Mail. More:
âI hate politics,â she confessed.Â
She noted that she âloves policyâ and pointed with pride to her work on the child tax credit during her time in the White House. Ivanka got the tax credit doubled as it went through the legislative process.
But, she said, she couldnât stand the âdarknessâ of the political world.
Ivanka Trumpâs role in her fatherâs first White House was a job called âFirst Daughter and Advisor to the President.â (Must have been tough to beat out all the other applicants.) She led something called the âOffice of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship,â which was created by the Trump administration and appears to no longer be active. Relatedly, she took a series of trips abroad to promote âwomenâs empowerment,â including one to Dubai during which she praised Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their work helping women become âfree to succeed.â Last year, Saudi Arabian authorities reportedly sentenced a woman to 11 years in prison (after they allegedly broke her leg) for crimes that included posting pictures of herself at the mall.
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In February 2019, Trump also launched something called the Womenâs Global Development and Prosperity Initiative; per a Washington Post column published in late 2020, the so-called W-GDP program âwas administered with the help of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).â A subsequent General Accountability Office report, citing inadequate recordkeeping, could not determine whether USAID had allocated related funding in a way that benefited women. Per the Post, efforts to make the W-GDP initiative permanent ended in December 2020 after Ivanka failed in an effort to circumvent negotiations with Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a previous supporter of the effort.
So, a bit of âMy job here is doneâ/âBut you didnât do anythingâ going on, as far as Ivankaâs time in public service.
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On the subject of the presidency itself, and the burdensome toll its responsibilities take on statesmen like her father, our position is: LOL. Recall that during his first tenure, the White House stopped sending around Donald Trumpâs daily schedule because so much of it consisted of undefined âexecutive time,â a term which his staff used as âshorthand for the hours Mr. Trump spends watching television and responding on Twitter to the coverage.â In 2018, a Fox News segment about surveillance startled Trump so much that he tweeted an attack on a bill his administration actually supported, an incident that took place just two days after he had accidentally announced his support for an immigration bill his administration opposed. At one point during the high-stakes early days of the COVID crisis, Trump held a 45-minute meeting with the actor Dean Cain because Cain was starring in a right-wing play about Trumpâs enemies at the FBI.
In any case, should you be interested, Ivanka Trumpâs 110-minute appearance on the Skinny Confidential Him & Her podcast has been dividedâevidently by some sort of generative-A.I. summary nightmare toolâinto 35 chapters with names like âNavigating Confidence and Motivation Amid Expectations,â âNavigating Personal Growth and Public Service,â âExploring Amino Acids and Workout Supplements,â âAchievements in Public Service and Personal Growth,â âNavigating Ethics and Transitioning from Business to Government,â âNavigating Public Service Challenges,â and âPassion for Skincare and Sun Protection.â And with that it might be time for us to ânavigateâ an entire bottle of whiskey in one sitting, ha ha, goodbye!