Depsite full-boil trade tensions, Ivanka and her dad still managed to secure 13 trademarks in China.
By Kathleen Parker
Of course, I’m jealous of Ivanka Trump — because any criticism of another woman has to be jealousy, according to the letters I shall receive. In the following order, I want her wardrobe, hair, makeup, private transportation and height (5-feet-11) — and all of her trademarks in China.
Confession accomplished, let’s move on to emoluments, as in the constitutional clause forbidding gifts, titles or what-have-you from foreign nations to officeholders or appointees within the executive and legislative branches of government.
President Trump’s elder daughter, Ivanka, who happens to be his close adviser on economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, among other things, also has secured 13 new trademarks in China — right about the same time her father discovered a fresh passion for China’s economic well-being.
That’s right, “Make China Great Again,” no American president has ever said. But recently, Trump apparently was knocked off his golf cart on the road to the ninth hole and had a revelation: He must save ZTE!
ZTE, as you may know, is a gargantuan Chinese telecommunications equipment and systems company that, heretofore, had been considered ground zero for crimes against the United States. It has sold products to Iran and North Korea in defiance of U.S. sanctions law.
You see the dots: tariff tensions with China, the off-again-on-again summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. It’s complicated, if you’re not in the art-of-the-deal business. If you are, this is all part of a Trumpian vision for which he began laying the groundwork in April 2017.
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