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A short video released by France's presidential palace of Ivanka Trump awkwardly interacting with world leaders at the G-20 summit had a certain je ne sais quoi that made it go viral over the weekend, and France insists it had no intention of humiliating the U.S. president's daughter. "We didn't anticipate the reaction, and once again, we are not responsible for the use made of the clip," an official with the Élysée said in a statement.
The video, in which IMF chief Christine Lagarde appears mystified at Trump's interjection to a comment by British Prime Minister Theresa May, encapsulated for many the high profile, enigmatic, and arguably inappropriate role Trump played during President Trump's trip to the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, and to South and North Korea. There were substantive critiques about nepotism and the dangers of diplomatic amateurism, and there was some snark, as in the #UnwantedIvanka photos on Twitter in which Ivanka Trump is photoshopped into all sorts of famous events, real and fictional. Chris Hayes covered both on MSNBC Monday night.
The French government often releases short clips from summits, and this one "took place in the leaders' lounge right before the sessions on gender equality of which Ivanka was one of the keynote speakers," the Élysée official said, and it wasn't anything special except that it dropped into "a larger narrative in the U.S. about Ivanka's diplomatic role and that goes beyond us, of course."
https://theweek.com/speedreads/850588/france-says-did-not-mean-embarrass-ivanka-trump-mortifying-g20-video
Mme. Defarge
(8,034 posts)Eugene
(61,900 posts)The key blunder was having her there in the first place. From that point, it was unavoidable.
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)L' foutaise
Bullshit
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)She's the same sort of clueless, privileged, entitled, born-with-a-silver-spoon dolt as her disgusting father. The death stare Christine Lagarde offered was priceless.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Yup, Like WTF is she doing here? Garçon! si vous plait? enlever ce paracite
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But they do discern - very quickly - when they're being made fun of or when they think someone's making fun of them.
Here's Joe Pesci to demonstrate (except for the part where he backs off):
msongs
(67,420 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Iskanka embarrasses and shames herself but she does not realize it.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Florida Bull
(103 posts)But, they would be furious if it were Chelsea Clinton in a Clinton Administration instead.
I saw the video clip, and Ivanka presumptuously interrupted with a different subject matter. She also wasnt even dressed appropriately for the event. And, she gets to act like she is a President or Prime Minister?
Even the Secretary of State and Vice President were not in the conversation.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Trump family diplomacy
http://www.newsweek.com/indian-diplomat-compares-ivanka-trump-half-wit-saudi-prince-650206
"We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatter them.
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Ivanka as our interim Secretary of State.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Demonaut
(8,919 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Fuck her.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)DFW
(54,407 posts)Then she won't even know she had been embarrassed by the video. She thinks it qualifies her as the next Secretary of State.