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Demovictory9

(32,456 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:15 PM Jan 2020

Ivanka Trump Takes Spotlight at Davos, Ahead of Cabinet Members

Ivanka Trump Takes Spotlight at Davos, Ahead of Cabinet Members
Gatherings like the World Economic Forum give the president’s adviser and daughter a chance to meet the world’s power brokers, who have come to acknowledge her influence in the White House.


DAVOS, Switzerland — If the World Economic Forum gave President Trump a break from his political and legal troubles at home, for his eldest daughter it presented another opportunity to stride across the world stage.

Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser, was presented at this conference of global elites as a principal second only to her father, even as she traveled as part of a delegation that included all of the president’s most important economic advisers.

She shared top billing with Mr. Trump Wednesday morning at a breakfast for corporate executives, including the chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, which she co-hosted with the president and helped organize. There, she took precedence over four cabinet members and the president’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, who were also in attendance.

She also organized Mr. Trump’s dinner meeting Tuesday night with global chief executives, and participated in a bilateral meeting with the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan. She sat for an interview with the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, and she was the sole adviser Mr. Trump mentioned by name during his 30-minute speech on Tuesday.

“Under Ivanka’s leadership, our Pledge to America’s Workers has become a full-blown national movement,” Mr. Trump said, referring to an effort to get employers to expand worker retraining.

It was a ringing endorsement in front of a moneyed crowd for a program — a set of pledges that so far are more promised than realized — that Ms. Trump has been championing for the past year in lower-profile appearances across the country. After a difficult first year in Washington, during which Ms. Trump struggled to find her lane, the challenges faced by the American worker have given her what she describes as a passion project.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/europe/ivanka-trump-davos.html

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Ivanka Trump Takes Spotlight at Davos, Ahead of Cabinet Members (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2020 OP
How much did this cost us? Grasswire2 Jan 2020 #1
4 million and counting True Blue American Jan 2020 #3
The only way she took the spotlight is because of her daddy CatMor Jan 2020 #2
"born on third base but thinks she hit a home run" Demovictory9 Jan 2020 #4
Again, I wish they would all just laugh every time she opens her mouth. louis-t Jan 2020 #5
what was bdamomma Jan 2020 #6
What a nightmare Hekate Jan 2020 #7
I didn't realize Ohiogal Jan 2020 #8
Every time I hear that Ijunka is out and about grifting, I wonder about the children. If cornball 24 Jan 2020 #9
Nepotism Barbie sarcasmo Jan 2020 #10
it's over.. the US of A 'experiment in democracy' just crashed.... pangaia Jan 2020 #11
Babysitting Piasladic Jan 2020 #12
loin doll Kali Jan 2020 #16
Were they yelling, "show us your breasts!!" like the last time? PSPS Jan 2020 #13
Arghhhhhhh! smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #14
! Kali Jan 2020 #17
He's so subtle. Karadeniz Jan 2020 #15
Struggled to find her lane? Her father is a billionaire and president, she's never had to struggle. Claritie Pixie Jan 2020 #18

Grasswire2

(13,570 posts)
1. How much did this cost us?
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:21 PM
Jan 2020

Does she share a hotel room with Dad to cut taxpayer expenses? Does her hairdresser travel along? How many hotel rooms did they book for wardrobe?

Demovictory9

(32,456 posts)
4. "born on third base but thinks she hit a home run"
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:29 PM
Jan 2020

is that the phrase. Tonight's tweets from her will feature pics of her being the big wig.

cornball 24

(1,475 posts)
9. Every time I hear that Ijunka is out and about grifting, I wonder about the children. If
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:35 PM
Jan 2020

you have so damn much money, then WTH do you need to trapse around the world with the Grifter in Chief! Stay the hell home if you're such a good mommy! She disgusts me!

Piasladic

(1,160 posts)
12. Babysitting
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 06:44 PM
Jan 2020

tRump is unable to function on his own, and the paranoid, narcissistic asshole only trusts his loin doll. I hope soon it will become too obvious to hide.

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