Mr. Trump has received a few negative press for comments he’s made about women, both before and during his presidential campaign.
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Ivanka Trump may have lived her life in the spotlight thanks to her dad’s success as a businessman and tenure as host of The Celebrity Apprentice, but now she’s under even more pressure. Harlow took the opportunity to press the 33-year-old businesswoman about Donald Trump’s comments about fellow Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. During an August debate moderated by Kelly, Trump said the correspondent’s questions were “ridiculous” and “off-base”.
“It’s sort of regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum. Would anyone vote for that?” “Look, my dad is very blunt. He’s very direct. He is not gender specific in his criticism of people, and people that he doesn’t particularly like or people that he does like but thinks they’re wrong on a particular issue”, she said in an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “And I think he’s known for action”.
Ivanka Trump said her father Donald Trump would be an wonderful president for women’s issues. “I’m a female executive at his company at the highest level”.
With CNN pushing the sexist, misogynist narrative over Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka pushed back by saying he’d be “amazing for women in this country” if elected President. Sure, she recognizes that she’s gotten so far in her career because of her father’s name – Ivanka is very self-aware – but she also works incredibly hard ( legend has it, she was in Miami making a deal to buy the Doral Resort & Spa just a week after her daughter was born). “So, you know, the politics of our parents is not relevant to our friendship”.
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Perhaps recognizing the scrutiny and obligations that a Trump presidency would inflict on her and her family, Ivanka Trump hedged on a question about whether she is happy about his run for the presidency. She said she thought the Democratic debate was excellent and interesting to watch.
