Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016, according to new book by Ric

[PunkinPi]

Source: WaPo

full title (didn't fit): Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016, according to new book by Rick Gates

As Donald Trump’s top campaign aides began a discussion in June 2016 about who the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should select as his running mate, the candidate piped up with an idea.

“I think it should be Ivanka. What about Ivanka as my VP?” Trump asked the assembled group, according to a new book by his former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates set to be published Oct. 13. “Ivanka should be vice president,” he added.

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Instead, he brought up the idea repeatedly over the following weeks, trying to sell his campaign staff on the idea, insisting she would be embraced by the Republican base, Gates writes.

Trump was so taken with the concept of his eldest daughter as his vice president — and so cool to other options, including his eventual selection, then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence — that his team polled the idea twice, according to Gates.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-ivanka-rick-gates-book/2020/09/28/ea2000a2-ff5c-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html

[murielm99]

1. Evita! Evita!

[lagomorph777]

16. They would be our first husband-wife co-presidenting team.

[sandensea]

21. Pa-da-chsh!

That's probably the "pee" tape Putin has on him, too.

[Srkdqltr]

2. Of course. Are we surprised?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Trump "suggested"? More like insisted.

Trump has used Ivanka to close deals that were falling apart. Not because of her brains and strategy. Not because of experience with contracts. Not because of her personality.

Because Trump invested a certain sum of money for her plastic surgery when she was a young teen. Fixed her teeth. Slimmed her nose. Sculpted her cheekbones. Enhanced her breasts. Made her into his Galatea.* Not just for pleasing his eyes personally. But to cynically use her as a tool when he alone could not persuade other parties to see things his way. Almost the way a spy enterprise uses beauty to get to adversaries.

Having Ivanka on the ticket would possibly have persuaded non-fervent Republicans to vote for Trump b/c in fact, they were voting for Ivanka the way you vote for Miss Universe, for the looks more than the talent.

* Galatea was the name of a statue given by its sculptor in a Greek myth. He carved the perfect woman out of the finest marble and fell in love with it. The gods took pity on him and turned the statue into a living woman.

[Aristus]

15. The sculptor's name, by the way, was Pygmalion.

[sandensea]

20. Or in this case, PIGmalion

[Aristus]

22. Definitely.

[Sherman A1]

4. Interesting

but hardly a surprise.

[thesquanderer]

5. Key point: This is from a PRO Trump book!

It also says he thought this idea was...

a prime example of the kind of unconventional thinking he believes made Trump an appealing candidate. While others might see the episode as a distasteful symbol of Trump’s nepotism, Gates said it shows Trump’s commitment to family, loyalty and ensuring those around him support his agenda and not their own — “the values and assets that Trump cared most about,” he said.

and there's also this...

While the Trump who emerges from Gates’s book has a short temper and a shorter attention span, Gates largely argues such traits are positives — attributes of an unorthodox politician, he says.

He came not to bury Trump, but to praise him...

[PunkinPi]

7. Please don't consider OP as encouragement to buy the book, just thought the nugget about Ivanka

should be shared.

[Bigredhunk]

6. Wow

WIth that access he could've REALLY dated her.

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. Keep it close, just like a mob family.

Because they are a mob family.

[left-of-center2012]

9. He wants her to replace Melania

[DENVERPOPS]

19. why not marry her, and kick Melanoma to the curb.......

Didn't some famous movie actor do that exact thing????????/

[dalton99a]

10. Get rid of the trash. GOTV

[BlueMTexpat]

11. Hardly a surprise!

But she might have been an improvement over Pence.

[niyad]

12. Given what we observe, and suspect, about that sick and twisted relationship, the mind reels.

[George II]

13. Hey Donnie, "VP" isn't short for VaPid!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

14. GTFOH!

[Hekate]

17. The mad king lives in a world of his own

[CaptYossarian]

18. He still thinks of it whenever Pence sits on his lap.