France says it did not mean to embarrass Ivanka Trump with mortifying G-20 video

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A short video released by France's presidential palace of Ivanka Trump awkwardly interacting with world leaders at the G-20 summit had a certain je ne sais quoi that made it go viral over the weekend, and France insists it had no intention of humiliating the U.S. president's daughter. "We didn't anticipate the reaction, and once again, we are not responsible for the use made of the clip," an official with the Élysée said in a statement.

The video, in which IMF chief Christine Lagarde appears mystified at Trump's interjection to a comment by British Prime Minister Theresa May, encapsulated for many the high profile, enigmatic, and arguably inappropriate role Trump played during President Trump's trip to the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, and to South and North Korea. There were substantive critiques about nepotism and the dangers of diplomatic amateurism, and there was some snark, as in the #UnwantedIvanka photos on Twitter in which Ivanka Trump is photoshopped into all sorts of famous events, real and fictional. Chris Hayes covered both on MSNBC Monday night.

The French government often releases short clips from summits, and this one "took place in the leaders' lounge right before the sessions on gender equality of which Ivanka was one of the keynote speakers," the Élysée official said, and it wasn't anything special except that it dropped into "a larger narrative in the U.S. about Ivanka's diplomatic role and that goes beyond us, of course."

https://theweek.com/speedreads/850588/france-says-did-not-mean-embarrass-ivanka-trump-mortifying-g20-video

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Is this the Borowitz Report?

[Eugene]

2. The Idiot Princess did all that without their help.

The key blunder was having her there in the first place. From that point, it was unavoidable.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. CONNERIE

L' foutaise

Bullshit

[Golden Raisin]

4. This assumes Ivanka was/is embarrassed and/or actually feels any shame.

She's the same sort of clueless, privileged, entitled, born-with-a-silver-spoon dolt as her disgusting father. The death stare Christine Lagarde offered was priceless.

[mitch96]

6. "The death stare Christine Lagarde offered was priceless."

Yup, Like WTF is she doing here? Garçon! si vous plait? enlever ce paracite

m

[gratuitous]

10. I don't think they have feelings in the conventional sense

But they do discern - very quickly - when they're being made fun of or when they think someone's making fun of them.

Here's Joe Pesci to demonstrate (except for the part where he backs off):

[msongs]

5. daddy's little...girl nt

[keithbvadu2]

7. Iskanka embarrasses and shames herself but she does not realize it.

Iskanka embarrasses and shames herself but she does not realize it.

[2naSalit]

8. ++++!!!

[Florida Bull]

9. Many Trump supporters probably like Ivanka acting like a head of state,

But, they would be furious if it were Chelsea Clinton in a Clinton Administration instead.

I saw the video clip, and Ivanka presumptuously interrupted with a different subject matter. She also wasn’t even dressed appropriately for the event. And, she gets to act like she is a President or Prime Minister?

Even the Secretary of State and Vice President were not in the conversation.

[keithbvadu2]

12. "We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatt

Trump family diplomacy

http://www.newsweek.com/indian-diplomat-compares-ivanka-trump-half-wit-saudi-prince-650206

"We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatter them.”
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Ivanka as our interim Secretary of State.

[spanone]

11. She embarrassed herself....self-awareness doesn't exist in the trump genome

[Demonaut]

13. blonds do have more fun

[jcgoldie]

14. I really don't care, do you?

Fuck her.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Of course they didn't...

[DFW]

16. It doesn't matter, really. Unless someone tells her....

Then she won't even know she had been embarrassed by the video. She thinks it qualifies her as the next Secretary of State.