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SATURDAY, SEP 9, 2017 01:00 PM EDT
Interrupting Big Daddy's meetings is neither an accident nor a harmless tic. It's been Ivanka's job for decades
ERIN KEANE
Congratulations to everyone with a found something in common with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, WTF? square on their 2017, Amirite? Bingo card. During a debt ceiling and disaster relief meeting Wednesday between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders, first lady-daughter Ivanka Trump pulled one of her patented Oval Office pop-ins and, according to CNN, Republican leaders were visibly annoyed by Ivankas presence.
Some of us have been visibly annoyed by Ivankas presence for the last 18 months or more, but thanks, guys, for catching up.
By now we are all used to what CNN calls the Ivanka Drive-By. (Let that sink in for a minute, will you? Can you imagine the collective spasms the Fox News dog-whistle brigade would have had if any member of Obamas family had cultivated a White House habit cutely nicknamed a drive-by?) Its her irritating and highly calculated practice of interrupting meetings, including high-profile media interviews, just to say hi to Big Daddy. Fans of the cult classic film The Room must feel a twinge of recognition at these distracting pop-ins, with Trump blathering on, making about as much sense as Tommy Wiseau ranting on his rooftop, before turning the mood on a dime with a casual, Oh hi Ivanka.
Ill give Maggie Haberman $5 to throw a plastic spoon at Ivanka next time she pulls this move.
CNN connects the contemporary Oval Office Drive-By with a habit Ivanka first cultivated back when she was 10 years old and a student at Manhattans Chapin School:
Hiding in a janitors closet during recess, she would dial her dad, who would put her on speakerphone with whomever happened to be in his office.
It was colleagues, it was titans of industry, it was heads of countries. Hed always tell everyone in the room how great a daughter I was and say cute things and ask me about a test I took, Trump told CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger in an interview.
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http://www.salon.com/2017/09/09/oh-hi-ivanka-finally-we-know-the-least-essential-white-house-employees-real-role/
cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)enmeshed.
All the trumpian Valley of the Dolls / Stepford women seem to me to be patently obvious bling intended to distract and attract.
Cue: Princess Ivanka to barge in to try to baffle and win-over legislators meeting with daddy.
no_hypocrisy
(46,080 posts)Only a door separated his office from our living quarters.
I was taught as soon as I could walk NEVER to come into the office unless one of my parents took me with them.
If I got the concept, it isn't that hard.
Either she's an idiot (it's possible) or it's a set-up arranged between her and her father to stop work and BS.
JDC
(10,125 posts)It's designed to humanize *45. It puts people off their guard and probably softens them.
As always, his children are props
Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Ivanka was monitoring the meeting from the next room and knew 'Daddy' was getting into trouble. There was no prearranged deal; she stepped in to try and pull his bacon from the fire.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Still think that jarvanka are trump's enablers.
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)since the day she was born
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)honestly, anyone who could suck up to that sick bastard for any reason would have to be creepy
procon
(15,805 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)He is a master of manipulation. Want to sell a car? Put a sexy woman on top of it. She is being used as a tool for him to gain the upper hand. I suspect she loves the power she's wielding as much as he does.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)She loved being in the closet when she was a kid, and Jared STILL loves being in the closet.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)The whole KKKlan is Baby Boo Boo buffoons, and the duck dynasty reality show lemmings are all aflutter over this disgusting , embarrassing and criminal parasite breed.
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)They know he needs to be monitored.
jb5150
(1,178 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if he used to slip into her bedroom when she was a child and .....