By JAMELLE BOUIE


What is Ivanka Trump doing in the White House?

... Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the first daughter has "been part of the team" on North Korea receiving briefings and sensitive information.

... Ivanka Trump is a senior adviser to the White House with an office, a staff, and a wide portfolio of issues, from education and veterans affairs to restructuring the federal bureaucracy and working with foreign leaders around the world. And her only qualification is that she’s the president’s daughter ...

... Ivanka ... has no experience in international diplomacy, nuclear proliferation, or the history of the Korean Peninsula. Likewise, she had no particular competency when she stood in for the president at a forum in Saudi Arabia on tackling expertise, or when she traveled to India to head the U.S delegation at a summit on global entrepreneurism.

Each of those would constitute a surprising and difficult assignment for someone whose resume consists of managing a small apparel line and appearing on The Apprentice ... "I'm going to be a daughter," she said in an interview just after the election. Now, the president’s oldest daughter receives sensitive intelligence information without a proper security clearance and does work that is typically the province of experienced officials ...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/ivanka-trump-makes-a-mockery-of-anti-nepotism-laws.html

Instead, you've assumed the castrati position in the Trump choir, doomed forever to sing the most challenging parts while never getting the spotlight. Sucks to be you, John.

if she keeps him from starting a war, she can be there. melania could give a fuck.

He's as bad as anyone working "for" Cheeto.

If she keeps daddy from going nuclear, literally, then that's a bonus. If she gets in the way of Kelly fully implementing the whte supremacist anti-immigrant policies (doubtful), then that would be another bonus.

Will be interesting if this pisses her and Cheeto off enough to fire him.