{"id":52685,"date":"2017-04-29T00:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T04:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52685"},"modified":"2017-05-06T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T12:13:52","slug":"us-first-daughter-ivanka-trumps-first-official-visit-to-germany-was-a-success-until-she-began-defending-her-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=52685","title":{"rendered":"US First Daughter Ivanka Trump’s First Official Visit to Germany Was a Success Until She Began Defending Her Father."},"content":{"rendered":"

by
\nEmily Jane Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of young boys on bicycles stopped in their tracks outside of a pizza shop as Ivanka Trump drove by in a tan S.U.V., in the middle of a flashing motorcade on her trip to Germany in her new role. <\/p>\n

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Ivanka Trump<\/p><\/div>\n

Throngs of police officers and Secret Service officers wove through the 2,711 concrete rectangles arranged in a grid outside of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Through each pillar, officers were hurrying the scores of smartphone-wielding revelers and members of the international press away as they buffered Trump to walk through.
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\nA handful of blond teenage girls shrieked when they caught a picture of her on their phones as she entered the memorial. <\/p>\n

All across the city she was being met with the kind of curiosity befitting a Kardashian.<\/p>\n

Whatever else can be said about Ivanka Trump, she is a strange sort of American celebrity. It was her first official trip abroad with her new, Hydra-headed roles as First Daughter and assistant to the president on behalf of her father\u2019s administration, and consummate D.C. power-couple-better-half.<\/p>\n

Then there was the deeper question of whether she was her father\u2019s loyal defender, or somehow, behind the scenes, a positive force, and whether she could be both.<\/p>\n

She\u2019d been invited to the event by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as precise a polar-opposite world leader to her father as can be imagined.<\/p>\n

During the campaign, Trump was harshly critical of her, and notoriously didn\u2019t shake her hand at an Oval Office photo op, though now Trump says he simply did not hear her request for a handshake. During that visit, Merkel and Ivanka held a meeting on how to advance female entrepreneurs, and Merkel clearly saw her as a possibly useful emissary.
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Ivanka told me after the panel that since her flight took off at six P.M. on Tuesday evening\u2014too early for her to fall asleep\u2014she ended up getting about three hours\u2019 rest. She was losing her voice, too, which momentarily made her second-guess whether it was worth the trip at all. \u201cIt is certainly sultry,\u201d she said of her voice, in a full husk.<\/p>\n

The most immediate hurdle for Trump once she landed Berlin (in a shiny gold pleated skirt and every butter-blonde strand of her hair in place) was holding her own next to women of world-class accomplishment, like Merkel, I.M.F. director Christine Lagarde, and the other delegates on stage with her Tuesday afternoon. She performed admirably, if a bit tensely, spouting off statistics about how women are disadvantaged when it comes to access to capital, paid less, treated differently, and discussed the ways in which to solve these problems.<\/p>\n

But where Ivanka Trump is involved, so, too, is her father. There was no way these panels wouldn\u2019t be used to prosecute the question of what policies and attitudes, exactly, the president\u2019s daughter is representing. There were hisses and groans as Ivanka said that her father had been supportive of women all the way through the Republican primary race and the general election. The reaction was so loud that the moderator had to pause the discussion. And when she offered her do-you-want-to-believe-me-or-your-own-eyes response that she had \u201cheard the criticism from the media that\u2019s been perpetuated,\u201d the crowd broke into laughter. (Twenty minutes earlier, the group had been reminded twice that they needed to stand when the Netherlands\u2019 Queen Maxima entered the room in order to give proper respect.)
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Meeting journalists privately afterward, she was asked about the crowd\u2019s reaction and whether or not she felt the moderator was tough on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m used to it,\u201d she said, much more comfortably than on stage. \u201cIt\u2019s fine.\u201d She then launched into a defense, which she had made more subtly minutes before, that people should be able to have dialogues with one another even if they have different viewpoints, and that everyone should feel comfortable candidly expressing themselves without being ostracized. It\u2019s as close to a cri de coeur as the president\u2019s daughter will deliver nowadays, and the sort of argument that her father, a believer in black-and-white winners and losers, would rail against.<\/p>\n

It also shows just how stuck Ivanka is in her own loop. She is only on this stage because of her father\u2014but defending her father, as Sean Spicer has found, is a difficult job. Still, she\u2019s not prepared to go off script, in any of her roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a voice and a seat at the table, you have to be strategic,\u201d she said on Tuesday. Her sultry voice sounded hoarse.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:Vanity Fair<\/em><\/p>\n

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by Emily Jane Fox A group of young boys on bicycles stopped in their tracks outside of a pizza shop as Ivanka Trump drove by in a tan S.U.V., in the middle of a flashing motorcade on her trip to Germany in her new role. Throngs of police officers and Secret Service officers wove through …<\/p>\n

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