Fox News has released a short clip of an interview with Ivanka Trump that will air on Sunday night, in which host Steve Hilton asked the president’s daughter to comment on the progressive Green New Deal resolution spearheaded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). Although details still need to be hammered out, the nonbinding proposal is working towards the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within the next 10 years while simultaneously creating millions of “good, high-wage jobs.”
Hilton specifically asked Ms. Trump what she would say to the people who see the guarantee of a job from progressive Democrats, and think, “Yeah, that’s what I want, it’s that simple.” Her response was mind-boggling in its lack of self-awareness.
“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last 4 years. People want to work for what they get,” Trump told Hilton. “So, I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job. They want the ability to live in a country where’s there’s the potential for upward mobility.”
Ivanka, of course, has clearly benefited greatly from nepotism and her last name and currently sits as a senior advisor to the president of the United States despite having zero experience in law or government.
The irony is rich, in other words, as people began to point out after the clip of Sunday’s interview began making its way around the internet.
Ivanka Trump graduated from college in 2004 and in 2005 she took at job at the Trump Organization as an executive vice president.
So how about not lecturing any damn body about what regular people want or how hard they work. https://t.co/dKfOJZ5nhN
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) February 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1100398145165500416
https://twitter.com/caitlinmoran/status/1100426295077412865
Ivanka Trump is of course the very first name that comes to mind when you try and think of prominent people who have ‘worked for what they got’ in life. https://t.co/AF3R54PwQy
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1100403896793645057
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1100440629052608513
Has Ivanka Trump ever had a job that her father did not give her? https://t.co/J3ST0eAix1
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) February 26, 2019
I don't need to hear what Ivanka Trump thinks about ANYTHING, particularly Women's Issues, the minimum wage or @AOC. I like to get opinions from educated, credible sources who put the necessary time in to understand what they are talking about. NEXT. https://t.co/YBIPGgbPJT
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) February 26, 2019
Ivanka Trump, whose entire life has been funded by her grandfather's ability to con:
"I don’t think most Americans want to be given something… People want to work for what they get. I think that this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want."
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 26, 2019
Ivanka Trump gets lucrative annual streams of income, rents and capital gains — $1 million here, $5 million there — from her biz, her husband's biz, and her father's biz that she largely gets for just sitting there. Her public disclosure form: https://t.co/9V53mqN6eS https://t.co/toTByQ3udc
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 26, 2019
And this excerpt from Trump’s 2009 memoir, The Trump Card is especially relevant in light of her recent remarks:
When life gives you lemonade, sell it to the staff.
Ivanka Trump on working for what you get, from “The Trump Card,” 2009: pic.twitter.com/E53xQESd40
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1100424414858903552
Ocasio-Cortez has yet to respond to Ivanka’s remarks, but people will be waiting with bated breath until she does.