"Oh hi Ivanka": Finally, we know the least essential White House employee's real role

[DonViejo]

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 Ivanka’s presence.”

Some of us have been visibly annoyed by Ivanka’s 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 Obama’s family had cultivated a White House habit cutely nicknamed a “drive-by?”) It’s 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.”

I’ll 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 Manhattan’s Chapin School:

Hiding in a janitor’s 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. He’d 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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[cilla4progress]

1. Perverse and

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]

2. When I was a toddler, my father had his medical practice in the other side of our house.

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]

4. I'd bet it started innocent and worked it's way into *45 calculation

It's designed to humanize *45. It puts people off their guard and probably softens them.

As always, his children are props

[Roy Rolling]

18. That's it. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

5. There's a third possibility, one that I subscribe to

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]

9. Bingo

[dhol82]

13. I like that reason best

Still think that jarvanka are trump's enablers.

[gopiscrap]

3. I've been visibly annoyed with her presence

since the day she was born

[Angry Dragon]

6. It is a stage, it is a play, it is a game

[Skittles]

7. both his wife and daughter are creepy beyond belief

honestly, anyone who could suck up to that sick bastard for any reason would have to be creepy

[procon]

8. The Trumps really put the 'fun' back in 'dysfunctional' family. nt

[lunatica]

10. LOL!

[rainin]

11. He is selling sex!

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]

12. it's the secret to their marriage

She loved being in the closet when she was a kid, and Jared STILL loves being in the closet.

[tammywammy]

15. What do you mean, "Jared STILL loves being in the closet."

[Glimmer of Hope]

14. Is this the same roll she played on the Apprentice?

[Hulk]

16. Sick nest of vipers

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]

17. 45 is mentally ill and the family knows it

They know he needs to be monitored.

[jb5150]

19. Very creepy relationship ...

I wouldn't be surprised if he used to slip into her bedroom when she was a child and .....

[Honeycombe8]

21. "Oh, papa! This is where you were!"

[left-of-center2012]

22. Tell her bedtime stories?

[Honeycombe8]

20. "Am I Interrupting?"

[nolabear]

23. ...