Trump’s daughter Ivanka strikes a nerve
She has been branded ‘complicit’ for letting President undo key pay equity rules
She is the powerful, glamorous first daughter, a woman even liberals hoped would be a moderating influence on her presidential father. Today, the reputation of divisive White House figure Ivanka Trump is under siege.
The impeccably presentable working mom has emerged as a lightning rod for many Americans disappointed with the Trump clan, but particularly among Democrats who had envisioned her as a voice of reason in Donald Trump’s rollercoaster administration.
She had vowed to influence her father on multiple subjects, from child care to climate change.
But she has been branded “complicit” for letting Trump undo key pay equity rules, cowardly for her failure to speak up forcefully on issues including her father’s misogyny, and accused of co-opting feminism by convincing women that Trump had their best interests at heart.
Most recently, a comedian hurled a gendered four-letter expletive at her for not adequately ■ addressing
Ivanka is aware of the criticism directed her way. “Some people have created unrealistic expectations of what they expect from me,” that her presence would carry enough weight with her father that he would “abandon his core values,” she told the Financial Times in September.
After Ivanka opened the Jerusalem embassy, another former first daughter, Chelsea Clinton, weighed in to say she had little sympathy for Ivanka Trump, her one-time friend. “She’s an adult. She can make the choices for herself,” said Clinton. immigration concerns. ■