Ivanka Trump Sat In for Her Father at the G-20 Leaders' Table

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg


By Craig Gordon
July 8, 2017, 7:21 AM EDT July 8, 2017, 8:01 AM EDT

Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, took his seat at a Group of 20 meeting table in Hamburg, sitting in for the president when he stepped away for one-on-one meetings with world leaders.

A photo on Twitter shows Ivanka Trump sitting at her father’s place, between Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Theresa May. One official who was watching the session said she has taken her father’s place at the table on at least two occasions today and did not speak.

A spokesman for Ivanka Trump said she had been sitting in the back of the room and then briefly joined the main table when the president stepped out. The president of the World Bank addressed the meeting, which was about African migration and health -- areas that would benefit from a facility that Ivanka Trump and the World Bank had announced shortly before the meeting, the spokesman said.

G-20 leaders are allowed to bring staff into the room for some of the meetings, and when other leaders stepped out during today’s session, their seats were briefly filled by others. Ivanka Trump serves as an unpaid adviser to her father, as an assistant to the president.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-08/ivanka-trump-sits-in-for-her-father-at-g-20-meeting-table

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[hopeforchange2008]

1. Sickening.

[underpants]

2. On the Sabbath?!?!!?

As pointed out in post #5 here
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029300681

[Hieronymus]

27. Orthodox Jew, my ass.

[spiderpig]

3. What????????

Romanovs. Tweety's right.

[turbinetree]

4. Alrighty the second Vanilla Queen, looking to see if she can get copy rights

this is just becoming more asinine everyday.

Reminds of this sh*t:

Much Wealth As Half The World’s Population


http://www.nationalmemo.com/much-wealth-half-worlds-population/

[dlk]

5. This is What a Bloodless Coup & the Demise of U. S. Leadership in the World Looks Like

The U. S. is being represented by a vacuous and completely unqualified child of the president at an important financial meeting of world leaders. We can thank Republicans and the conservative corporate media for acting on behalf of a few cranky billionaires, and their extremist agenda. China, Russia, and others are already stepping into the vacuum left by our abdication. The U. S. has become a laughingstock and losers in the eyes of the world.

[Moostache]

7. WTF??? Why do the rest of the leaders not stop the meetings and ask her to leave?

Unqualified is being charitable...this is disgusting.

Imagine the gnashing of teeth and beating of breast that would have ensued if literally ANYONE else did this shit.
Can't they (being the idiot Trump clan) SEE? Can they COUNT? How many other nations do ANYTHING like this at these conferences?

[Scarsdale]

8. She said she tries to "stay out"

of politics!! I may have an explanation of her constant presence at meetings' There may be a transceiver imbeded in those huge teeth, transmitting all the details to a recorder outside the room? In TV interviews, she comes across as not too bright, having to carefully consider each answer. Is she getting messages from someone? Maybe Vlad has the tRumps supplied with the latest spyware gadgets? Dear God, I think the total insanity of this entire administration is getting to me. Another day, another unexplainable tRump move. When will this END, so we can start the hard work of getting this country back to SANITY, with intelligent people in office?

[SharonClark]

9. I'm out of words about the continuous outrageous behavior of this family.

[Sunlei]

10. He takes to many potty breaks. Is something wrong? It's really disruptive to the entire group.

[Sunlei]

13. you may be just venting but that kind of anger isn't good for your health.

[dhill926]

12. just fucking kill me....

I hope we can recover from this abomination, but I'm beginning to have my doubts...

[bitterross]

14. Holy Shit. Can you imagine the outrage if Hillary did this with Chelsea?

The Republicans would be calling for Hillary's head (like that would be anything new). They'd be exploding across the TEEVEE news and internet, non-stop 24x7 about how it was wrong. And, it IS wrong. Wrong for Ivanka and it would be wrong for Chelsea too (not that Hillary is that stupid to do something like this). There should be some elected or appointed and approved official there. Not a freaking family member.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. I guess it's better than on his lap. nt

[joshdawg]

24. That is exactly what some would believe drumpf would do.

I wouldn't have put it past them if she did sit on his lap.
Ugh!

[spiderpig]

16. My first thought was of my mom's duplicate bridge games back in the 60s

Someone would sit in for you for a hand while you "powdered your nose".

Oh, but this is only the G20 Summit...

[erpowers]

17. Trying To Push Her For President

It seems to me that Donald Trump is trying to put Ivanka Kushner is position to be the first female President of the United States. The Republicans who thought they could control this family better look out. Some Republicans may be hoping for a Pence Presidency, but they may end up getting a Kushner Presidency.

I think Trump is trying to position Ivanka in a way in which he can say she has already proven she can be President. She is meeting world leaders and sitting in on meetings for him. She is also working for him in the White House. Whether it is because of scandal, or just due to her trying to run for President on her own they will push her for President.

Second, why is this man always complaining about the struggles of his family. He is always trying to claim that he or his family members have such a hard life. At the end of this article, he claimed that Ivanka's life would be so much easier if she were not his daughter. If she was not his daughter she would not be where she is or have what she has. Everything she has is because she is his daughter. She is not working in the White House, meeting with world leaders, or sitting in on summit meetings because she is the most qualified person. She is doing so because she is the daughter of the President of the United States. It hardly gets any easier than getting things based on you father.

[Sunlei]

19. He will do anything to hide he has to stay close to his dressing room restroom.

[turbinetree]

18. Talking Points Memo, has an excellent read on what this looks like, and smells like

Ivanka Trump Briefly Takes Her Father’s Seat At G20 Leaders’ Meeting


By Alice Ollstein Published JULY 8, 2017 9:58 AM
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On Saturday, a Russian official tweeted out a photo, that has since been deleted, of first daughter Ivanka Trump sitting in her father’s place at a meeting of world leaders at the G20 summit on the topic of African migration and health.

Ivanka, an unpaid but official White House adviser, briefly took President Donald Trump’s seat between Chinese President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Theresa May when Trump stepped out of the room.

A White House official told the Associated Press that Ivanka Trump had been sitting in the back of the room, and moved forward when the president of the World Bank began discussing topics related to a new women’s entrepreneurship fund she is working on.

“The official said that when other leaders stepped out, their seats were also briefly filled by others,” AP reported.

The stand-ins for other heads of state, however, were government ministers or senior officials, not a family member with no previous foreign policy experience. Several U.S. pundits condemned the move as “grotesque” and reminiscent of a “banana republic.”

Just a few weeks ago, in an interview on Fox News, Ivanka Trump said that she tries “to stay out of politics.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ivanka-g20-trump-seat


It really is time to take to the streets

[Glimmer of Hope]

21. This is outrageous.

[turbinetree]

22. WE are witnessing how a despot turns a democracy or a republic into a failed authoritarian state

and a spineless fascists republican congress doing nothing....................

I am so glad to say that he is not my president................

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. "Hey Ivanka..."

"I'm tired of listening to this stupid blah blah blah. I'm going back to my room for a lie-down with my phone. I'll read the cliff notes to the cliff note that others will fill me in on later. But I need someone I can trust to stay here and make sure they don't say anything nasty about me. If anyone makes any bad "fake" remark criticizing America's position....my position....I want you to take names for me. Now give me a little smooch....no? ok whatever, I'll see ya later"

[Cadfael]

23. Somebody needs to tell the big orange troll

That today is not "take your daughter to work" day.

[Bengus81]

25. Simple....Trump is not physically able to do what this job requires

His health issues are showing up now on a day to day basis when he has to be out in public.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. To be fair, it might not have been her idea.

My impression of the father-daughter dynamic in this situation is that Trump could have commanded/directed Ivanka to sit in his chair while he "did some business". Ivanka doesn't impress me as someone who regularly disobeys an order from her father.