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BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 02/25/18 08:10 AM EST
U.S. Olympian Gus Kenworthy tore into Ivanka Trump, questioning why she is attending the Winter Olympics.
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Ivanka Trump is in South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The first daughter, a senior adviser to President Trump, is leading the U.S. delegation to the ceremony on Sunday.
She said earlier this month her trip reaffirms her father's call for a "maximum pressure campaign" to denuclearize North Korea and to "reaffirm our bonds of friendship and partnership" with the South.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/375486-us-olympian-rips-ivanka-everybody-has-worked-so-hard-to-make-it-to
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)How this BS trip will do anything more than jack crap to influence ANY political policy on the Korean Peninsula...
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Can this be really happening. Politicizing the Olympic's closing ceremony?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)to the closing ceremonies. In 2014 the person leading the US Presidential delegation was the deputy Secretary of State.
See: https://www.teamusa.org/Road-to-Sochi-2014/Features/2013/December/17/Presidential-Delegations-To-The-2014-Olympic-Winter-Games-Announced
The athletes choose who leads them and this year they chose gold medal winner Jessie-Diggins.
See: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-spt-olympics-jessie-diggins-closing-ceremony-20180223-story.html
HipChick
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madaboutharry
(40,216 posts)I can't bear her. She is the most affected and clueless person in the public.
Donkees
(31,435 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)The only human expressions her face shows is a smile, or the lack of a smile.
There is a complete lack of any expression. I see no intelligence in her eyes. None of lifes experiences show on her face. It makes me wonder why she hides behind the perfect doll face. Is it the only way she can face the world? Its like shes terrified that something real will show in a slightly furrowed forehead or in sadness or anger showing?
It seems to be a predominant thing with the Trump women. If I didnt hold them accountable for their own actions I would blame him. But I do hold them accountable for the full measure of what they do OR dont do. I tend to do that with all adults.
rickford66
(5,524 posts)Posing with it I could accept. Wearing it is stolen honor.
Rhiannon12866
(205,731 posts)Stealing honors along with everything else.
TNNurse
(6,928 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts).....earned with hard work and dedication and sacrifice....
malthaussen
(17,209 posts)Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)Yonnie3
(17,452 posts)A well said deserved dis always gives me an uplift. What it points to doesn't.
Cha
(297,446 posts)she's doing there, too.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,016 posts)Surely, she too gold in those?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Yonnie3
(17,452 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:56 AM - Edit history (1)
If so, she is certainly worth what she is paid.
I feel a new addition to my "ought to be a law list" coming.
No person without credentials may publicly represent the USA government in any matter of import. I will need a reasonable set of credentialing requirements, starting with actual employment of the individual by the US.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)magicarpet
(14,157 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)
..... their political bonafides so once King Orange Shit-gibbon finishes his eight year reign, first Ivanka gets eight years for her term in the Oval Office, and then Jared gets his eight years, then Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, and Barron all follow in succession.
The Tr-dump Dynasty will be at minimum a 100 year reign. This is what theses clowns envision - what they feel they have earned and deserve - an endless political dynasty. But in reality it is a hidden scheme to pillage and blunder from the US Treasury as many riches as possible directly into the tr-dump off shore coffers and secret bank accounts.
Rhiannon12866
(205,731 posts)Ohiogal
(32,026 posts)Tanuki
(14,919 posts)The SupposedToBeBanned needed OT to get past the Germans. I hope they did drug tests on these guys.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)Thanks for posting - I woulda missed it. I am a Gus Kenworthy fan now, too.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Is Jarrod in even more trouble than we know? Does she ever shut that large mouth of hers? Just because her father thinks she is something special, that does not make it so. Irritating as HELL, like her brothers Beavis and Butthead. Maybe her gold medal is for attaining more Korean endorsements for her (stolen) brands that anyone else?
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Good catch...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Business as usual.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Even more than I did yesterday.
catbyte
(34,414 posts)kairos12
(12,863 posts)helmedon1974
(92 posts)She's just a spoiled rich kid taking advantage of her father's position...again.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)family corruption.
keithbvadu2
(36,853 posts)Like Pence not standing when our ally, SK, entered?
"reaffirm our bonds of friendship and partnership" with the South