Last weekend, while her father President Trump was wandering around the stage looking longingly at the blossoming friendship between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman and Vladimir Putin, Ivanka Trump was pressing the flesh at this year’s G-20 summit in Argentina.

But it’s hard not to notice that the president’s favorite female has certainly been taken down a peg since last year’s G20, when Ivanka caused a lot of controversy by sitting in her father’s seat during one of the summit events. She also spoke at a woman’s summit which drew groans and boos.

Not so this year, where the First Daughter was largely silent and stuck mostly to smiling and waving, both things she’s extremely good at, as well as socializing with Bin Salman, another social pariah.

The ornamental quality of this year’s performance, especially as contrasted with last year’s, crystalized something I’ve long been wondering about Ivanka. She’s an adviser to the President who doesn’t advise him, a dignitary to the G20 with no dignity, a working woman with no job, a public official who doesn’t serve the public. And now that she no longer sells her sweatshop crafted namesake clothing, what is it that the president’s daughter is selling?

https://forward.com/opinion/415587/what-is-ivanka-trump-selling/