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The 36-year-old Ivanka has fallen far from the days when she tried to stage her fathers inaugural to echo Camelot, perhaps with dynastic presidential dreams herself. She was infatuated with the Kennedys, Fox said.
She tried to present her brand as luminous, caring and classy a champion of women and children with a carefully curated image over the years on Instagram, in a blog and in books. Amid the dark hailstorm of her father, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, she sold herself as the sunny morning the one who would temper her fathers retrogressive and sometimes wretched moves.
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Even then, before all the horrors that would follow, it seemed like fan fiction. As a former top Trump administration official recently told me, Donald Trump is the meanest man Ive ever met.
Ivankas quest to have a brand that both complemented and contrasted with her father was quixotic. After her panic when he left her mother for Marla Maples Ivanka worried she wouldnt be able to keep the Trump name, and called him constantly she spent her life fashioning herself, Vertigo-style, into his ideal.
But, of course, no matter how hard Ivanka tried, Donald Trump thought she could be even more ideal. When she was a model, Fox writes, her father suggested to friends that breast implants might help her along. One friend recalled getting a frantic call from Maryanne Trump, Donalds sister, urging him to talk Donald out of letting her get plastic surgery that young,
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/opinion/sunday/ivanka-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,899 posts)Fake faces. Big boobs. Fake insides. Mechanical gestures.
Just wondering.
sandensea
(21,720 posts)Most Republicans are body fascists. The woman (or guy) has to look like a Hitler fantasy, in order to be "ideal."
What it is, I'm not exactly sure. Low self-esteem?
KPN
(15,679 posts)Volaris
(10,280 posts)As most of the Republican men that I've met are shaped quite a bit like newt Gingrich, and a paragon of physical virtue he aint.
Work out? Why, that would cut into scheduled precious Piss on Poor People Time, and that's just a bridge too far. Besides, since my wife is biblicaly obligated to sleep with me no matter how disgusting she finds me, why bother?
sandensea
(21,720 posts)Oppaloopa
(867 posts)Hekate
(91,035 posts)The Mad King has a type he likes, and has transmitted it to his spawn.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,841 posts)thegoose
(3,115 posts)Of all those children by her father reveals her to be a yawing black hole of immorality. Like the res of those creeps!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Isn't it lovely to be able to cuddle your beautiful baby? Womp-Womp!!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)that's a posed, professional photo. It might as well be in an advertisement for...whatever.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)And that is exactly what Trump will do - is doing - to our country. He is such damaged goods that every thing he touches gets contaminated with his own ego-cherishing, envy, greed, hate, and stupidity.
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)someone in another field. No strong independence for them or loyalty to their mother.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Many people have a parent who is like that, but very few grow up with that kind of wealth and public attention. I would imagine it's nearly impossible to break away from.
Having said that, all his adult children are deplorable. I wish THAT is what Hillary would have said at the debates.
KPN
(15,679 posts)people looked at the Romanovs.
KPN
(15,679 posts)eerie!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I wonder if he forbids them from spending time with her.
madaboutharry
(40,246 posts)There is nothing about her that is real. The obvious plastic surgery aside, it is all fake. The staged family photos taken by professional photographers in which her children are wearing starched clothing and are awash in perfect lighting, her finishing school posture, and her phony little girl voice and annoying mid-sentence smiles are all part of a scheme to be the next Jackie Kennedy. It turned out to be a sick misfire.
Ivanka is as empty and insecure as her father, evidenced by the fake persona she created.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Ive started doing it on DU when It was announced that Melania was going to the border to visit a detention center.
Theyre relying more and more on the Wag The Dog optics. I think someone finally realized that Hitlers rise was helped tremendously when he hired Leni Riefenstahl to make movies about him. The footage we see of his speeches and the adoring Germans giving him the Nazi salute as he rides through the streets standing in his car are her work. She was a consummate movie maker and her films have given us the image of the Hitler we know.
Trumps reliance on having been on his reality show hasnt quite proven to be enough. He makes sure to get important (to him) footage of himself in his rallies. Its probably the real reason he has them. His daughter and wife are used to do the Potemkin version.
Its really scary, because our voices and protests will be forgotten, just like any dissentors that resisted Hitler. Almost all we have of that point in history is carefully directed propaganda film and photographs of the head Nazis. Were left thinking every German allowed it to happen. Or more than that, every German did their patriotic duty to help it happen.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,110 posts)She flashed a hot dog vendor when she was in eighth grade.
That action is portrayed as one of the behaviors that actually make Ivanka interesting.
My question is - what makes a 13-year-old girl flash a stranger on the street? That sounds like very abnormal behavior to me.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Bengus81
(6,939 posts)Just more of the same thinking by people like Trumps that MONEY can buy you the right to do anything to anybody with no consequences.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)ICK. ICK. ICK. ICK. ICK.
Stinky The Clown
(67,841 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)oasis
(49,490 posts)lark
(23,199 posts)Such a totally disgusting, deplorable and abject failures as people family, every one of them.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Is a warning sign for sexual abuse.
It's fucked up any way you look at it.
What a strange, deeply disturbed family. They make the family from The Hills Have Eyes look like the Brady Bunch.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Trump touching her hip/waist in public.
His strong associations with convicted pedophiles and abusers of girls and women.
The way she has been noted to be "the world's best compartmentalizer" (in other words, has an uncanny ability to block out negative thoughts and memories). Hmm, how did she get so good at that?
KPN
(15,679 posts)Booyah!
keithbvadu2
(37,049 posts)Friendship hug for wife, sexually intimate hug for daughter
Body Language Expert Weighs In on Donald Trumps Awkward RNC Stage Hugs With Melania and Ivanka
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-awkwardly-hugs-melania-ivanka-expert-weighs-in-w430543
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KPN
(15,679 posts)I cant imagine ever touching my own daughter that way!
What is fing wrong with the people who voted for and continue to support him. There is something tragically flawed in their human spirit.
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Tiffany and Barron excepted
KPN
(15,679 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hope she and her husband end up in prison with her father and brothers.
KPN
(15,679 posts)hlthe2b
(102,560 posts)FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)... of never reading that book about the Trump family. I'll bet some DUers will pick it up though.
SunSeeker
(51,808 posts)Oppaloopa
(867 posts)SunSeeker
(51,808 posts)And huge, porn star sized breast implants. Just how daddy likes. Which is why he paid for it.
JI7
(89,289 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That is all the work of a surgeon. Nothing about her is natural.
SunSeeker
(51,808 posts)Boomerproud
(7,985 posts)That is all we ask.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)A monster factory. That pretty much sums it up for me
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)lark
(23,199 posts)That is all. She is shallow and vapid beyond belief, nothing more that daddys' toy.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)How far it went and for how long is completely unknown, unless Ivanka writes a tell-all, probably after the monster's death.
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)There are too many signs to ignore which point to some kind of abuse. The history of misogyny, the photos, and the sexual descriptions of his daughters point to a very deranged man who would have likely engaged in that kind of depravity.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)"Sex". No kidding. How repulsive.
Caliman73
(11,760 posts)Also, when Tiffany was a baby, or one year old, he was asked who she looked like and he said something along the lines that she was going to be very attractive because she had her mother's legs, and we'd have to wait and see if she developed her mother's (then he used his hands to indicate large breasts).
When my daughter was born and to this day I think that she is the most beautiful girl in the world, but I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, imagined or thought about how her legs, breasts, or other physical attributes were going to develop. I have, like any normal, non-pathological father, been focusing on her confidence, intelligence, and developing a well mannered but assertive and self assured young woman.
The man is just s disgusting sack of crap!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's so important to have a father who values his daughter as a human being and not as a piece of meat.
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)cilla4progress
(24,801 posts)supporters reading this. 👍👍👍👍
yonder
(9,686 posts)but second thought tells me "unless it's about themselves".
Vinca
(50,334 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)There, fixed it for her.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)Hekate
(91,035 posts)That is just delicious.