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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:15 AM Feb 2018

US Olympian rips Ivanka: Everybody has 'worked so hard to make it' to the Olympics except for her

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 02/25/18 08:10 AM EST

U.S. Olympian Gus Kenworthy tore into Ivanka Trump, questioning why she is attending the Winter Olympics.

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Ivanka Trump is in South Korea to attend the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The first daughter, a senior adviser to President Trump, is leading the U.S. delegation to the ceremony on Sunday.

She said earlier this month her trip reaffirms her father's call for a "maximum pressure campaign" to denuclearize North Korea and to "reaffirm our bonds of friendship and partnership" with the South.

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US Olympian rips Ivanka: Everybody has 'worked so hard to make it' to the Olympics except for her (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Free "Girls" trip off the taxpayers.. HipChick Feb 2018 #1
I would really like her to express clearly Docreed2003 Feb 2018 #2
Leading the US delegation? She has nothing to do with the athletes! democratisphere Feb 2018 #3
She's not leading the athletes, she's leading the "Presidential delegation"... PoliticAverse Feb 2018 #5
She posed with a Olympic medal too?...I would be pissed if I knew how hard I'd worked to be there... HipChick Feb 2018 #4
Always the poseur. madaboutharry Feb 2018 #8
That's the plastic medal for plastic surgery facial expressions Donkees Feb 2018 #12
The Botox shots really work! lunatica Feb 2018 #31
Daddy was given a Purple Heart. Unearned honor. rickford66 Feb 2018 #15
That was my exact first thought, too. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #37
Someone could have choked her with that, she should be careful. TNNurse Feb 2018 #21
Is this photoshopped? OMG if it isn't....no one, especially her, deserves to wear a medal that was Pachamama Feb 2018 #28
Hey, she earned that medal just like Dad earned the Purple Heart. n/t malthaussen Feb 2018 #30
Years from now, her children will swear she won that. Solly Mack Feb 2018 #35
Some news in a sea of dismal news that brings a tiny bit of joy to me. Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #6
Mahalo Gus Kenworthy.. we wonder tf Cha Feb 2018 #7
I missed some events, I guess "Money Laundering Slalom?" "Grossly entitled Downhill"? NRaleighLiberal Feb 2018 #9
+1 - I laughed out loud sharedvalues Feb 2018 #13
Is Ivanka still "working" for free? Anybody know? Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #10
Yes. She and her husband dont get paid. lunatica Feb 2018 #32
Ivanka and Jared are building..... magicarpet Feb 2018 #34
Exactly. This is just the latest Trump moneymaking scheme. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #38
And Republicans complained non stop about Michelle's "frivolous" and "costly" overseas trips! Ohiogal Feb 2018 #11
His earlier tweet is hilarious! I am a Gus fan from now on! Tanuki Feb 2018 #14
Wow! GoCubsGo Feb 2018 #23
Oh, that is awesome! Lindsay Feb 2018 #33
No wedding rings? Scarsdale Feb 2018 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author maddiemom Feb 2018 #22
Yes, where is Czarina Ivanka's Gold? Pachamama Feb 2018 #29
Just another stop on the Trump Family Pan-Asian Grifting Tour smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #17
+1 dalton99a Feb 2018 #18
I love me some Gus Kenworthy. GoCubsGo Feb 2018 #19
Gus Kenworthy is a pretty awesome young man. This is his pinned tweet: catbyte Feb 2018 #20
She is vile. kairos12 Feb 2018 #24
How does her being there reaffirm anything? helmedon1974 Feb 2018 #25
Reaffirming her business interests...only countries she goes. Hard to keep up with all the Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #36
Like Pence not standing when our ally, SK, entered? keithbvadu2 Feb 2018 #26
Thank you Gus Kenworthy for using your voice to speak the truth Pachamama Feb 2018 #27

Docreed2003

(16,862 posts)
2. I would really like her to express clearly
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:20 AM
Feb 2018

How this BS trip will do anything more than jack crap to influence ANY political policy on the Korean Peninsula...

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. Leading the US delegation? She has nothing to do with the athletes!
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:23 AM
Feb 2018

Can this be really happening. Politicizing the Olympic's closing ceremony?

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
5. She's not leading the athletes, she's leading the "Presidential delegation"...
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:29 AM
Feb 2018

to the closing ceremonies. In 2014 the person leading the US Presidential delegation was the deputy Secretary of State.

See: https://www.teamusa.org/Road-to-Sochi-2014/Features/2013/December/17/Presidential-Delegations-To-The-2014-Olympic-Winter-Games-Announced

The athletes choose who leads them and this year they chose gold medal winner Jessie-Diggins.
See: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-spt-olympics-jessie-diggins-closing-ceremony-20180223-story.html

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
4. She posed with a Olympic medal too?...I would be pissed if I knew how hard I'd worked to be there...
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:26 AM
Feb 2018

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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
31. The Botox shots really work!
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018

The only human expressions her face shows is a smile, or the lack of a smile.

There is a complete lack of any expression. I see no intelligence in her eyes. None of life’s experiences show on her face. It makes me wonder why she hides behind the perfect doll face. Is it the only way she can face the world? It’s like she’s terrified that something real will show in a slightly furrowed forehead or in sadness or anger showing?

It seems to be a predominant thing with the Trump women. If I didn’t hold them accountable for their own actions I would blame him. But I do hold them accountable for the full measure of what they do OR don’t do. I tend to do that with all adults.

rickford66

(5,523 posts)
15. Daddy was given a Purple Heart. Unearned honor.
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:01 AM
Feb 2018

Posing with it I could accept. Wearing it is stolen honor.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
28. Is this photoshopped? OMG if it isn't....no one, especially her, deserves to wear a medal that was
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:14 AM
Feb 2018

.....earned with hard work and dedication and sacrifice....

Yonnie3

(17,443 posts)
6. Some news in a sea of dismal news that brings a tiny bit of joy to me.
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:29 AM
Feb 2018

A well said deserved dis always gives me an uplift. What it points to doesn't.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
9. I missed some events, I guess "Money Laundering Slalom?" "Grossly entitled Downhill"?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:40 AM
Feb 2018

Surely, she too gold in those?

Yonnie3

(17,443 posts)
10. Is Ivanka still "working" for free? Anybody know?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 09:41 AM
Feb 2018

Last edited Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:56 AM - Edit history (1)

If so, she is certainly worth what she is paid.

I feel a new addition to my "ought to be a law list" coming.

No person without credentials may publicly represent the USA government in any matter of import. I will need a reasonable set of credentialing requirements, starting with actual employment of the individual by the US.



magicarpet

(14,154 posts)
34. Ivanka and Jared are building.....
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 12:30 PM
Feb 2018

Last edited Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:43 PM - Edit history (1)

..... their political bonafides so once King Orange Shit-gibbon finishes his eight year reign, first Ivanka gets eight years for her term in the Oval Office, and then Jared gets his eight years, then Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, and Barron all follow in succession.

The Tr-dump Dynasty will be at minimum a 100 year reign. This is what theses clowns envision - what they feel they have earned and deserve - an endless political dynasty. But in reality it is a hidden scheme to pillage and blunder from the US Treasury as many riches as possible directly into the tr-dump off shore coffers and secret bank accounts.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
23. Wow!
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:18 AM
Feb 2018

The SupposedToBeBanned needed OT to get past the Germans. I hope they did drug tests on these guys.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
16. No wedding rings?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 10:04 AM
Feb 2018

Is Jarrod in even more trouble than we know? Does she ever shut that large mouth of hers? Just because her father thinks she is something special, that does not make it so. Irritating as HELL, like her brothers Beavis and Butthead. Maybe her gold medal is for attaining more Korean endorsements for her (stolen) brands that anyone else?

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helmedon1974

(92 posts)
25. How does her being there reaffirm anything?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:08 AM
Feb 2018

She's just a spoiled rich kid taking advantage of her father's position...again.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
36. Reaffirming her business interests...only countries she goes. Hard to keep up with all the
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 02:04 PM
Feb 2018

family corruption.

keithbvadu2

(36,819 posts)
26. Like Pence not standing when our ally, SK, entered?
Sun Feb 25, 2018, 11:12 AM
Feb 2018

Like Pence not standing when our ally, SK, entered?

"reaffirm our bonds of friendship and partnership" with the South

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