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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 06:21 PM Apr 2017

German opinion editor on Ivanka representing US: She is his voice, but somehow she has a nicer face.

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"We have family clan experiences in autocracies,” Seibel told Politico. “Ivanka Trump isn’t elected, she is a daughter. She didn’t say anything in the elections when he was saying nasty things about women and migrants. She is his voice, but somehow she has a nicer face.

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On Tuesday, Ivanka was in Berlin to represent the United States in a panel at the W20 Summit, an international convention dedicated to the “economic empowerment of women.” The moderator of Ivanka’s W20 panel pulled no punches, asking her right away to clarify her White House role.

“Whom are you representing?” the moderator continued, as the audience burst out in laughter. “Your father as the president of the United States, the American people, or your business?”

Ivanka replied by saying “certainly not the latter.”

“I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well as it is quite new to me,” she continued. “As an entrepreneur and an individual prior to this in the private sector, I cared very much about empowering women in the workplace. And the opportunity to have an elevated platform, to be able to sit here on this stage — and thank you chancellor for your very gracious invitation — I am humbled to be here with so many formidable leaders, to engage in dialogue, to learn, to bring the advice, the knowledge back to the United States, back to both my father, and the president, and hopefully that will bring about incremental positive change, and that is my goal.”



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German opinion editor on Ivanka representing US: She is his voice, but somehow she has a nicer face. (Original Post) Amaryllis Apr 2017 OP
which makes her even more dangerous and actually a little creepy.... samnsara Apr 2017 #1
That's what I keep saying Bettie Apr 2017 #9
Her nicer face is little more than a shiny object. Solly Mack Apr 2017 #2
She can speak in complete sentences...unlike some of her relatives. Amaryllis Apr 2017 #3
... Solly Mack Apr 2017 #4
OKay, point taken...I take it back! Hadn't seen that post. Although she does speak in complete Amaryllis Apr 2017 #5
She does...she never really says anything though. Solly Mack Apr 2017 #6
She reminds me of the TV series Humans chia Apr 2017 #7
she is as plastic as Melania Skittles Apr 2017 #8
so... how has she actually empowered women? IcyPeas Apr 2017 #10

samnsara

(17,599 posts)
1. which makes her even more dangerous and actually a little creepy....
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 06:22 PM
Apr 2017

....in a Children of the Corn kinda way.

Bettie

(16,049 posts)
9. That's what I keep saying
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 08:59 PM
Apr 2017

and people (in person type people) keep saying, "No, she's smart and decent".

No. She. Isn't.

She's a grifter just like her father. We can never forget that.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
4. ...
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 06:27 PM
Apr 2017
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8977083

“Well, I don’t like the intonation of that, which, you know, assumes that, I think, you know, I don’t like the word accomplice, because, you know, in this context, I don’t know that that’s productive,” she said.

Yeah. Complete.

Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
5. OKay, point taken...I take it back! Hadn't seen that post. Although she does speak in complete
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 06:37 PM
Apr 2017

sentences more than he who shall not be named.

IcyPeas

(21,829 posts)
10. so... how has she actually empowered women?
Tue Apr 25, 2017, 09:05 PM
Apr 2017

are there any facts to back that up?

this quote from her book will always be there:


Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.
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