Ivanka Trump blows it again
Even as Donald Trump has perfected the perverse art of saying one wrong thing and doing a different wrong thing in an effort to get the two wrongs to distract from each other, his daughter Ivanka Trump has consistently taken a more conventional faulty path. She seems to think that saying the right thing and not doing a damn thing is enough to get her, and her precious personal brand, off the hook. Wrong. And she’s blown it again.
Shortly before Hurricane Harvey made landfall, here’s what Ivanka Trump posted on Twitter for all to see: “For those in #HurricaneHarvey’s path, we are praying for you. Please check out http://hurricanes.gov for preparedness tips. Stay safe!” That’s all well and good in a vacuum, if this is all it were. But in the real world, we all know that Ivanka has outsized influence over her father, who is mentally fading and whose decision making is increasingly dependent on those around him whether he realizes it or not.
In the time since Ivanka posted her generic well wishes tweet about the hurricane, here’s what her father has tweeted as its aftermath has played out: “I will be going to Texas as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption. The focus must be life and safety. I will also be going to a wonderful state, Missouri, that I won by a lot in ’16. Dem C.M. is opposed to big tax cuts. Republican will win S! With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other. We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever made) renegotiation process with Mexico & Canada.Both being very difficult,may have to terminate?” And oh yeah, there are people dying in post-hurricane flooding: “We have an all out effort going, and going well!”
So what has Ivanka Trump done to get her dipstick of a father to at least act presidential during the post-Hurricane Harvey crisis? Nothing. She thinks saying the right thing, and then doing nothing about Donald Trump’s word and deeds is enough. It isn’t. She’s blown it yet again. If you find Palmer Report valuable, make a donation.
