Ivanka Trump speaks on the last day of the Republican National Convention Cleveland on Thursday.
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His 34-year-old daughter regaled the crowd with childhood stories about Legos and his favorite adages, rounding out the image of the sometimes hard-edged politician that’s emerged over the campaign.
Those twin themes are apparent in the way Trump has rewritten a Hillary Clinton campaign slogan — “I’m with her” — for his own purposes. “Contrary to what you might expect from someone who puts an emphasis on results, my dad’s comments referred often to the sentiments expressed by my teachers about how I acted in and out of the classroom, not even focused on the letter grades themselves”.
Trump pays his male campaign staffers 35 percent more money than female staffers. A few minutes later, she proved she wasn’t kidding by trotting out one of the latter party’s favorite talking points: that women are paid substantially less than men are.
“My father values talent”. “He is color blind and gender neutral”. Political beliefs aside, Tiffany loves her father, and the speech she wrote came from the heart.
She had previously admitted the weight of the moment is “intimidating” and “terrifying”.
He was the single-most qualified person to lead the economy, and would “call on the best and brightest, both sides of the aisle”, she said. “I wish he’d give me input”. Certain labor laws, considered arcane, will change if her father wins the White House, she promised. “So I’m trying to take that advice”.
In addition to holding an executive position at the Trump Organization, she also created her own fashion brand which includes shoes and jewelry.
And she noted his work ethic in the real estate community.
“She does the princess thing very well and she’s immensely close with my father”, he told CNN’s Sara Murray Thursday in Cleveland. It seems as though the Trumps are not seeking to elect a committed Republican president, but rather, an entire royal family. “He will fight for equal pay, for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him”.
“My pledge reads: ‘I’m with you – the American people, ‘” Trump said. That media-ready candy replaced the meager policy vegetables offered up by speakers earlier in the week — sideshows that were novel yet somehow predictable at Trump convention.
She also described him as a candidate who will fight for women.
Behind the scenes her impact is possibly more significant – serving as one of Trump’s key de facto advisers – telling her father to tone down his rhetoric and be more presidential.
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It will be a massively public unveiling for Tiffany Trump, who’s only done a couple of joint interviews with other family members up until now. “I know that would not pass muster but she she’s most impressive”.
