Retired general humiliates Ivanka after she displays total ignorance of federal child health program

[kpete]

On Monday, Ret. Gen. Mark Hertling humiliated first daughter Ivanka Trump after she showed ignorance of federal child nutrition and fitness programs that her own father has short changed.

Ivanka Trump on late Sunday sent out a tweet saying that the United States needs to do a better job of promoting physical activity among American children or else risk raising a generation of unhealthy kids.

IVANKA:

“We need to promote healthy lifestyles for America’s youth,” the first daughter wrote. “In a recent survey, 9.5 million U.S. children reported that they did NOT once participate in any of over 100 sports or activities listed.”

Hertling, who served for 37 years in the U.S. Army before retiring in 2012, proceeded to school Ivanka about ways she could easily help promote child fitness just by having her father do his job and appoint people to important positions within his administration.

HERTLING:

“Ummm… there’s this thing called the President’s Council on Fitness, Sport, and Nutrition,” he wrote. “Been around 60 years. Used to have 25 appointees… I was one of them. Michelle Obama helped and generated momentum in this area. No one is on the Council now."

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[MontanaMama]

1. She is too stupid to

even understand the connection.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Ivanka continues to import goods from China even as her father calls China for unfair trade?

And calls for more fitness in children - even as her totally physically unfit said father proudly displays his diet of fast food and fitness being golf cart driving every Sunday.

The hypocrisy in this family is baked into their flesh.

[NastyRiffraff]

40. Of course, her clothing company will be EXEMPT from China's tariffs.

You read that right: Ivanka Trump’s clothing company will be spared from tariffs, thanks to her dad
(via Think Progress)

[stuffmatters]

49. I bet Trumps own ties &MAGA shit from China also magically exempted

[apkhgp]

50. She probably wanted to keep her name in the news

You know how these people that need to have glamor and glitz are.

[marble falls]

2. Ivanka needs to exercise her control over making uninformed opinions.

[Lonestarblue]

32. Ivanka just needs to go back to NYC.

And just shut up. As the famous quote goes, “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” And, Ivanka, please take your crooked husband back to NYC with you. No one wants to hear anything from or about either of you again, unless it’s about a criminal indictment.

[FakeNoose]

43. Nicely put

[calimary]

53. Indeed!

That’s all I want to hear about them: breaking news updates regarding indictments.

[Johonny]

3. She really doesn't care

It's all an act. The whole family are con artists.

[cilla4progress]

6. Absolutely.

People give them too much credit for coherence.

Incoherent monsters.

[iluvtennis]

27. ++++ Agree

[forgotmylogin]

44. Like Father, like Daughter

Trump does this all the time: comes up with a "great idea" and is too stupid and narcissistic to consider the GMTA principle: many great ideas have already been thought of. A little Googling (or historical research) is all it takes to prevent that mistake.

He thinks he coined the phrase “prime the pump,” which has in fact been used in economics since 1932, with the creation of President Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and, according to, Merriam Webster, has existed since the early 1800s.

Trump: It is O.K., because it won’t increase it for long. You may have two years where you’ll . . . you understand the expression “prime the pump”?

The Economist: Yes.

Trump: We have to prime the pump.

The Economist: It’s very Keynesian.

Trump: We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?

The Economist: Priming the pump?

Trump: Yeah, have you heard it?

The Economist: Yes.

Trump: Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just . . . I came up with it a couple of days ago, and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.

The Economist: It’s . . .

Trump: Yeah, what you have to do is you have to put something in before you can get something out.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/donald-trump-prime-the-pump

Many people here, mostly jokingly, said someone should consider submitting the exact text of the ACA to Trump, but label it "TrumpCare" so that he'd be quite proud of it and support it. In hindsight, that totally might have worked.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Having the last name of TRUMP.......

Does NOT make you smart. Ivanka!

What rock has she been living under the last 9 years?

[Achilleaze]

5. Yup. And remind your Daddy-Mama, Melania, that she sucks as a anti-bully advocate

She's keeping her collagen-enriched lips pretty damn tightly squinched while right-winger republican attack dogs go after the surviving teens of the Parkland gun freakout massacre of more of America's children. Whimp out. Or was she ever really sincere to begin with?

Ivanka and Melania: You can't claim to be a hero-champions for something or other and then dodge the action, the way your dainty-handed republican man - Comrade Casino - dodged the draft five frikken times in a row.

That's not called leadership, or courage or heroism. It's called FAIL.

[whathehell]

54. "Daddy-Mama"?...Huh?

I don't think so .

[smirkymonkey]

7. I don't know why she even bothers. Every time she opens her mouth, there is a 98% chance something

stupid or tone-deaf is going to come out.

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[trusty elf]

8. nice graphic!

[TNNurse]

12. I love this so much.

[trusty elf]

9. "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."

[hueymahl]

13. What's that graphic on Rump's collar?

Never seen that before.

[smirkymonkey]

15. I think it's supposed to represent "bone spurs".

[lastlib]

18. that was my first thought! Hilarious!!

[aggiesal]

26. It represents why he got 5 draft deferments. ...

but if you ask him now, he couldn't tell you which foot had the bone spurs.

[haele]

31. Don't think Popovich will approve. He hates the Drumpf and the current GOP.

And as the Spurs are very international in composition, most of the team hates them also.

Haele

[niyad]

36. we all know that "date" was NOT the four-letter word he meant, especially with that

slight pause before the word.

[TNNurse]

10. They are unashamed of their ignorance.

They share it daily.

[Marcuse]

24. Family of Grifters.

[mountain grammy]

11. Well, she said something about it, all that's required in this shitshow.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Had she never heard of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative?

[gratuitous]

23. First thing I thought of, as well

I remember how bipartisan that effort was, and all the charitable bonhomie it generated on the conservative side. Or maybe that was one of those, whaddyacallem, opium dreams?

[SDJay]

48. I'm Guessing She Hadn't.

That would require having a fucking clue, which she doesn't.

Of course, what I remember is all of the rube snowflakes out there screaming about how Michelle Obama personally went from school to school and forced vegetables down the throats of kids. Then, she MADE THEM EXERCISE! ICK!

Didn't dumbshit Sarah Palin 'respond' to this by showing up at some school with cookies? Probably had meth in them.

Yeah, Kremlin Barbie - it's been a totally overlooked issue. If you're a moron.

[Xipe Totec]

16. Talk about hitting a gnat with a sledgehammer. nt

[cungar2000]

17. What do you expect form a "president" who says idiotic stuff like

‘‘All my friends who work out all the time, they’re going for knee replacements, hip replacements — they’re a disaster,’’

Donald "239 lb" Trump

[geardaddy]

19. Dope.

We all had to do that program in grade school. Didn't she have to do it? Or did Donny Two Scoops get her out of it?

[bigbrother05]

39. In posh, private schools they had consultants, not PE teachers

Who wants a Presidential Fitness certificate when daddy will buy you a "tennis" bracelet for finishing a 1k jog?

[CrispyQ]

21. I doubt she was humiliated. They have no shame. -nt

[Permanut]

22. That part of her brain is missing..

the part that would do humiliation. Same with guilt, shame, fear, intimidation. Feels none of those. Also missing is the module that does consideration, kindness, charity and fairness. Same with the whole family. The turd, as someone here said, doesn't fall far from the asshole.

[Bromwell]

25. I can't stand her

I might dislike her the most out of that brood. The orange baboon and the "dumb as rocks" 2 sons are so dumb that they can't even begin to hide how dumb they are. They are just straight up clowns. They might be a bit more genuine as in genuine clowns.

This daughter though....she has this air about her where I think she actually sees herself as being really smart and worse, successful due to her own hard work. She insults me every time she appears any where or says anything and double when its in an "official" capacity.

Can't. Stand. Her.

[ailsagirl]

28. She is a certifiable dimwit

[BoneyardDem]

29. ignorance of her own fathers policies, is one possible answer for her ignorance.

trying to re-frame the narrative and pretend they, the Trumps, are coming up with awesome ideas for policy, is a more likely reason for these types of comments from Ivanka

[LakeArenal]

30. OMG.... Expect dump to announce....

Ivanka as the new head of the Pesident’s Council on Fitness.

PS. Is dump’s council on fitness an oxymoron? Do I have it half right?

[SunSeeker]

33. I appreciate the retired generals speaking up, but it's time for the currently serving to speak up.

Our country is being sold down the river by a traitor. No time to sit on the sidelines.

[niyad]

34. hey, vannie girl, does working in your overseas sweatshops count as phsyical activity?

[UpInArms]

35. Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian would be better fit to serve

and that is just a sad thought

[LiberalLovinLug]

37. Who buys her crap?

Do women actually support her products, (or enough of them) for her to make a lucrative income from her lines? If so, then there should be some kind of organized boycott. I don't know why any woman would support the Trump family and their collective abuse of women

[LeftinOH]

38. Question: Why does her tweet mention the Aspen Institute?

Maybe I missed it.. but I'm not getting how or why the Aspen Institute has anything to do with this. ???

[JDC]

41. The Trumps literally have no idea what is going on

And how their own actions -in trying to "destroy the Obama legacy"- are preposterous, counterintuitive, and just plain 'ol stupid. Even stupid in their own minds. They just have no idea what they are destroying and dismantling. Again, literally no idea.

[malaise]

42. That is how you deal with

this fucking kakistocracy - expose their ignorant assholes.

[BlueJac]

45. K&R

[GoCubsGo]

46. I remember Michelle Obama being mocked endlessly by the Right for for her efforts, too.

Thank you, General Hertling, for acknowledging her work. Too bad your words are going to fall on the deaf ears of Trump and his flying monkey cult.

[Upthevibe]

47. I miss Michelle Obama

So very much....I was thinking about how she was villianized for trying to help folks! I can hear Limbaugh now..."How dare she try to help people!!!!" May he f'ing rot in a Hell just for him!

[questionseverything]

51. one of the things she promoted was gardening

our local headstart got money to build raised beds, seeds and fertilizer

I volunteered for a couple years and it was so fun to see inner city kids marvel at tomatoes, peppers and what not being ON the plant

they were amazed

geesh I miss those days when our big problems were wether she would show her arms

[Marcuse]

52. Meet The Council

https://www.hhs.gov/fitness/meet-the-council/index.html

[Cha]

55. Ivanka's so willfully stupid or otherwise..

she thinks a tweet will show she "cares" and that's as far as it goes. Evidently Not knowing anything about its history or how much Michelle Obama helped with it.

Michelle is the first person I thought of when I read Ivanka's tweet.

And, not knowing dadtrump has nobody on the Council? Unforgivable vacuous tweet.

Good on Gen. Mark Hertling!