Ivanka Trump warms up to media
First daughter says she doesn’t consider press ‘enemy of the people’ Ivanka Trump says she has been the subject of reporting that was “not fully accurate.”
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump said Thursday that she does not view the news media as “the enemy of the people,” breaking with one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on the press.
The senior White House adviser spoke at an event hosted by Axios, where she also said she agreed that the separation of children from their parents at the border was a “low point” for the administration.
Asked if she agreed with the description of the press often invoked by her father, Ivanka Trump said “No, I don’t.”
Sharing her “personal perspective,” she said: “I’ve certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate. So . . . I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they sort of feel targeted. But no, I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people.”
The president has broadly la- belled the news media the “enemy of the people” and regularly accuses reporters of spreading “fake news” — his term for stories he dislikes.
His attacks drew a rebuke from the publisher of the New York Times this week, with A.G. Sulzberger saying he took Trump to task for “deeply trou- bling anti-press rhetoric” that is “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous” when the two met privately at the White House this month.