Ivanka Trump Quotes 'Chinese Proverb,' but China Is Baffled. Did someone pull it out of her ass?

[TheBlackAdder]

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Someone tell me, "No, this isn't true!" Could Ivanka have posted more bullshit?

Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, celebrated her father’s landmark meeting with the leader of North Korea after decades of hostilities between the two countries by quoting what she called a Chinese proverb.

“Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it,” Ms. Trump posted Monday on Twitter hours before Mr. Trump’s face-to-face meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

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But Ms. Trump’s 91-character missive quickly became an object of ridicule by critics in the United States of Mr. Trump and his presidency. The saying, it turned out, was not Chinese. One website suggested it originated in the United States itself at the turn of the 20th century.

In China, as Ms. Trump’s tweet made the rounds, many people were baffled, with some calling it a “fake proverb.” But criticism was more muted, with many people appearing more interested in helpfully trying to guess which actual Chinese idiom she might have intended to use.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/world/asia/ivanka-trump-china-summit-korea.html

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[OldHippieChick]

1. I'm sure she hires the "best" people

much like her father. Guess they didn't research other than one website.

[KansasKali]

2. She eats at the best chinese restaurants

And always reads her fortune cookie.

[OldHippieChick]

4. Of course!

How could I have missed the obvious!

[donkeypoofed]

3. She's pretty but dumb as a post

She doesn't know what the word complicit means,and she allegedly grated from a good college !

And now she's apparently just making stuff up like her father.. geez

[mythology]

8. I find it hard to label her as pretty because she's so incredibly dumb

[moose65]

5. It's exhausting trying to keep up with these nimrods...

I mean, really. Don't they run these tweets by anyone before they post them? You would think that with all of the negative blowback from all these Trump family tweets, that someone, ANYONE, who advises them would insist on the tweets being vetted first. Are the Trumps that tone deaf? Never mind - I answered my own question!

[Achilleaze]

6. Confucius Say: "When republican speak, lies fall like snowflakes."

[Gothmog]

7. From one of the attorneys at the Brennan Center

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[0rganism]

9. rewrite: "those who say it should only be done very carefully by experts...

...should not interrupt those manufacturing PR by pretending to do it poorly."