45 and Spicer blew an opportunity, and made Ivanka look weak.

[Ilsa]

Big bully Daddy Donald coming to Ivanka's rescue over a business decision, not a personal attack, makes businesswoman Ivanka look like a little girl. He's weakened her stature. If my father had done that, I would have told him "I love you, but if you ever do that again, I'll have your nuts swinging on a platform on my desk."

What he should have said was, "Ivanka has made my campaign, her growing family, and now public service her priority over her business. It is understandable that Nordstrom needs to cancel their contract. We wish them good luck, and maybe she will do business with them again in the future."

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. She only has her "line" in the first place because her father is Donald Trump.

[KatyaR]

15. Exactly what I was thinking.

Why would his kids hang around him so much? Because they like the high life, and the only way they can have that is by staying in Daddy's shadow....

[metroins]

2. I bet she gets a bump in sales

He's acting like he's being targeted, which will get his supporters to rally around his brand to defend him.

It's classic marketing.

The left wasn't going to buy her stuff anyway, I bet there's a mass email going out this weekend about how people can buy directly from her website at a discount to support the Trumps.

Nordstrom and Neiman are higher dollar places, typically found if left leaning areas (cities). The right will now try out clothes they never would have before.

It's all about money with this guy.

[Freethinker65]

11. Unfortunately her stuff is pricier than Chik-fil-A

And those Republicans that can afford it, prefer other comparable brands (that is why the brand did so poorly at Nordstrom in the first place and ended up on the racks at clearance/overstock places like TJMaxx).

[metroins]

17. That makes sense. Nt

[Charles Bukowski]

3. Ivanka is the Jaden Smith of politics.

Besides, if she were actually strong, she would not have abandoned her liberal ideals to join daddy's Fourth Reich.

[Ilsa]

8. Yep, but strength in business is

frequently just an illusion or for illusory purposes. He could have been off-handedly complimentary of her by spinning the story.

[madokie]

4. Yup, spot on

[adigal]

5. Daddy had to protect his sexy little girl, "piece of ass"

The way he talks about her, the way he touches her, makes me physically squirm.

[yardwork]

6. The president shouldn't have said anything at all about his daughter's business deals.

It's a highly unethical conflict of interest for him to discuss it at all.

[Ilsa]

7. I agree, but we know he can't stay silent on

anything involving Ivanka. He's reactive, not contemplative.

[Grammy23]

10. I agree yardwork. 100%

He needed to keep his yap shut on this. But he just can't do it. And now he has put himself squarely in the middle of this. So here he is back causing issues about Ivanka's business and the problems of having a president blurring the lines between family business and his role as President. He would rather ask forgiveness than ask for permission.

On edit: Ooops. I forgot. He doesn't apologize nor admit error. So there's that.

[FSogol]

16. I have to diagree. He should run his mouth as much as possible about his businesses.

It'll make it that much easier to impeach the grifter.

[Tanuki]

9. Seriously, what kind of CEO has to have Daddy make a public ruckus

over losing a client? Leaving aside the abject stupidity and lack of ethics or any sense of propriety of a sitting president involving himself in something like this, it makes her look incapable of managing her own business.

[Ilsa]

14. You said it much better than I.

Maybe you, not me will get the call asking you to take Spicer's job!

[progressoid]

12. Bwaaahahaha. If he said that, we all would have known someone else wrote it.

[Ilsa]

13. Oh, yeah. They only do confrontational.

You think I'll get any calls asking me to take Spicer's job?