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Blue_Adept

(6,384 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:18 PM May 2017

Ivanka Trump leads meeting at White House in father's absence

Source: Independent

Ivanka Trump led a roundtable about human trafficking with members of Congress at the White House, while her father Donald Trump delivered a commencement address to cadets graduating from the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.

The meeting, attended by several Democrats and Republicans – including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – seems to be another sign of Ms Trump’s quickly growing role in the administration.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ivanka-trump-meeting-white-house-leads-donald-away-commencement-speech-a7741731.html



Ah, the game of "can you only imagine if so and so had done this..."
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Ivanka Trump leads meeting at White House in father's absence (Original Post) Blue_Adept May 2017 OP
Nepotism Shell_Seas May 2017 #1
This is a wierd Monarchy... Txbluedog May 2017 #2
She smiled all the time while talking................. ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING. secondwind May 2017 #3
Ugh, she makes me ill! smirkymonkey May 2017 #8
I believe Russian mafia are the leaders neohippie May 2017 #4
To be fair tazkcmo May 2017 #5
While her "father" is doing this on his "business trip" to the middle east.................. turbinetree May 2017 #6
this is just so freaking wrong & it pisses me off! luvMIdog May 2017 #7
Ivanka and Jared Scarsdale May 2017 #9
First thoughts are: FUCKING WHAT!!!!!!! DK504 May 2017 #10
no crap, this is scary. rurallib May 2017 #11
Every darn day hibbing May 2017 #12
I am hoping the plane flies through the Bermuda Triangle..... Kleveland May 2017 #13
I'm sure all of the Congressmen with decades of experience hamsterjill May 2017 #14
Queen of the damned left-of-center2012 May 2017 #15
Queen of the playground ... Jopin Klobe May 2017 #19
I just hear squeaky shoes. mahina May 2017 #16
Did she focus on the profit margins, or tax avoidance of human trafficking? nt Xipe Totec May 2017 #17
Somebody get that ... Jopin Klobe May 2017 #18
Trump probably arranged having this meeting while he was away LiberalLovinLug May 2017 #20
NO FAIR!! angrychair May 2017 #21
Sorry, but........ SergeStorms May 2017 #22

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
4. I believe Russian mafia are the leaders
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:26 PM
May 2017

in the world for profiting from human trafficking

http://fortune.com/2014/09/14/biggest-organized-crime-groups-in-the-world/

Perhaps she should ask her father why he is so cozy with the russian mafia?

tazkcmo

(7,286 posts)
5. To be fair
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:26 PM
May 2017

She's probably has some bona fides in the human trafficking area what with her father being a customer and all.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
9. Ivanka and Jared
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:43 PM
May 2017

are on this trip with tRump. A horde of big business and financial dealers are along, too. Ivanka would have more credibility if she did something about the slave labor she uses in China to make her crappy rip offs from other designers. Those Steve Harvey style teeth are horrible. she needs a different dentist. The entire tRump family think they are special. They are - especially repulsive.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
10. First thoughts are: FUCKING WHAT!!!!!!!
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:44 PM
May 2017

This is too much. It's time we demand the nepotism rules be put into place.

hibbing

(10,076 posts)
12. Every darn day
Fri May 19, 2017, 01:54 PM
May 2017

Usually multiple times a day there are things that outrage me about the current resident of the White House. I stopped watching the "news" shows, but I can't give up my DU. This is disgusting.

Peace

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
13. I am hoping the plane flies through the Bermuda Triangle.....
Fri May 19, 2017, 02:04 PM
May 2017

And disappears....

Some may cry...

"There are many here among us, who think that life is just a joke....." Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
14. I'm sure all of the Congressmen with decades of experience
Fri May 19, 2017, 02:33 PM
May 2017

I'm sure that all of the Congressmen with countless decades of experience in government, really love being "led" by a young, inexperienced, and basically untested, privileged mini-Donald.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
16. I just hear squeaky shoes.
Fri May 19, 2017, 02:41 PM
May 2017


Not sexist, not ageist, she is just not remotely qualified to be anywhere near presiding over a meeting at the White House.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
20. Trump probably arranged having this meeting while he was away
Fri May 19, 2017, 03:11 PM
May 2017

And put Ivanka in charge of it because he's not that interested in the topic. it doesn't affect his personal wealth then it doesn't concern him. But it looks good optically so he has the meeting as long as he doesn't have be bored with sitting through it and pretending to be concerned. And of course Ivanka can sex up any meeting for great photo ops no matter what the issue.

She uses phrases like "this administration...." like she is a part of it. I guess she is, in all practicality, but the idea that this young woman with no experience at all in either political administration, nor even a regular working life, can sit in the Presidents chair and represent him while he is away overseas is nuts.

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
22. Sorry, but........
Fri May 19, 2017, 03:52 PM
May 2017

NO ONE ELECTED WHITE HOUSE BARBIE FOR ANYTHING! Who the hell does this dysfunctional family think they are? Trump's plans were to become a dictator, like Putin, then have a succession of Trump family members installed from that point on.

Well guess what, Donnie? FUCK OFF! Your dictator plan is circling the drain as we speak, and the rest of your family is being pulled down the drain as well. Your level of evil and narcissism creates it's own gravitational pull, and it's taking anyone who's ever had contact with you down the fucking drain. You're a dumbfuckian black hole, sucking everyone and everything in your path into your gravitational vortex.

FUCK THE TRUMPS! You make the name "Bush" look like a canonized family now, after your incredible level of douchebaggery.

Just when you think this white trash family couldn't possibly sink any lower..........

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