Ivanka Trump

Senior Advisor to the President

Newspaper Pack

• “Ivanka Trump brand secures China trademarks on day US president met Xi Jinping.” -The Guardian

• “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner work in the White House without divesting themselves of business holdings or forgoing foreign transactions, thereby raising the possibility in the minds of foreign leaders that the two can be manipulated.” -WaPo

• “Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump have profited off their dad’s presidency.” -GQ

• “Trump pressured both Kelly and then White House counsel Don McGahn to make decisions on Ivanka’s clearance ‘so it did not appear as if he was tainting the process to favor his family.’ When Kelly and McGahn refused, Trump went ahead and approved his daughter’s clearance himself.” -GQ

• “Donald and Ivanka Trump were involved in inauguration’s inflated payments to family business, new suit says.” -ProPublica

• “Ivanka Trump cashed $4 million from her father’s D.C. hotel in 2018.” -Rolling Stone

• “Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties.” -WaPo

• “Ivanka Trump’s family skiing ‘funded by the taxpayer’… ‘Taxpayers can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore, but they can afford to pay for Trump’s kids to vacation,’ says critic.” -The Independent

• “Ivanka and Don Jr. Reportedly Avoided Felony Fraud Charges After Lawyer Donated to District Attorney.” -Mediaite

• “A labour activist working undercover investigating abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes has been detained by police and two others are missing, raising concerns the company’s ties to the US president’s family may have led to harsher treatment.” -The Guardian

Late Nite Pack

• “[Trump] turned, lowering his pants just enough for me to give him a couple of swaps… He turned around and said, in a slow, appraising voice, ‘I like you.’ He fixed the belt of his pants and added, ‘You remind me of my daughter.’” -Stormy Daniels

• #UnwantedIvanka

• “In a moment combining the aspiring authoritarianism and chaotic bumbling that has defined the Trump presidency, federal law enforcement officials forcibly removed a group of peaceful protesters from a park near the White House so President Trump could stand in front of a church and brandish a Bible...  The Times reports that Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser, ‘urged’ him to take the short walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church, where a small fire briefly burned during protests Sunday night.  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has given her [Ivanka] even more credit, telling some people that the whole thing was her idea. In either case, Ivanka later accompanied her dad to the church, carrying a Bible in her $1,540 handbag.” -New York Magazine

• “I bet when she watches Titanic she thinks she’s Rose. Sorry, girl. You’re Billy Zane.” -SNL commercial for “Complicit” perfume

• “Ivanka Trump’s child tax credit is a ploy to pass tax cuts for the rich… The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found that 80 percent of the tax breaks would go to people in the top 1 percent of earners. In other words, people like Ivanka Trump.” -CommonDreams.org

• “Ivanka Trump is an advisor to the president. What is her expertise?... Is Trump in a meeting like, ‘Ivanka, help us out. We have to decide whether or not to bomb Iran. You sold shitty jewelry unsuccessfully for ten years, what do you think?’” -Trevor Noah