Pour out a little Trump Vodka (if you can find any) for the departed, because another Trump family business has gone under. On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump — fashionista and “a ten” according to her dad — announced her clothing line is shutting down after twelve years in business, during which there have been multiple allegations of worker abuses and mysterious disappearances of investigators, as well as ongoing boycotts and flagging sales leading to multiple outlets (including Nordstrom, DSW, and Hudson Bay) dropping her brand, as well as Ivanka products showing up in discount stores relabeled with the brand name Adrienne Vittadini.
“I do not know when or if I will ever return to the [fashion] business, but I do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington,” she explained. We’re not sure what her work is exactly (Washington has so many “advisors”), but at least she’ll have more free time for suggesting tragic centerpieces and studying vape juice.
Anyway, Twitter had schadenfreude to spare about the business failure (or perhaps we were all just imagining it?).
— Vaguely Dissatisfied Zombie (@DearZombieDiary) July 24, 2018
A crushing blow to the 90% Off Final Clearance Rack at TJ Maxx https://t.co/Q5GopEvPI8
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) July 24, 2018
it’s objectively hilarious that the White House violated the emoluments clause like 500 times in the last 18 months trying to keep ivanka’s shitty brand afloat and it wasn’t enough. she was born one foot from homebase and somehow got tagged out lol
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) July 24, 2018
Ivanka Trump's fashion brand may be over but never forget her timeless fashion advice: Pair sleek, classic nepotism with blind adherence to a maniac and spritz with the vague, insulting guise of female empowerment.
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) July 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/PoliticalEmilia/status/1021922477742555136
https://twitter.com/JohnJohnsonson/status/1021924349249372161
i am so god damn tired of people celebrating ivanka's failure. give this woman some credit. she got millions from her crook dad to start whatever bullshit business she wanted and she managed to build a brand of rags that couldn't even sell at 90% markdowns. thats very impressive
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) July 24, 2018
This is really insulting. Ivanka put more time and energy than most people put into anything seeking out amazing, lesser-known designers to rip off.
— Jennifer Morrow (@jenniferemorrow) July 25, 2018
Ivanka Trump says she’s closing the business to focus on the work she is doing in Washington."
What work is she doing in Washington? Cheerleading? Babysitting?
Catch me up please.
— I vote blue 💙 (@Brasilmagic) July 24, 2018
There seems to be an emerging theme to some of these tweets:
To celebrate her first business failure, Donald brought Ivanka Trump to the border and let her choose her own family to separate.
— Alexander The Eh (@AlexanderThe_Eh) July 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/NellSco/status/1021952538352869376
Ivanka Trump is shutting down her fashion brand to spend more time not helping reunite families separated by her father.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) July 24, 2018
Her DC work requires her full attention I mean those immigrant kids aren’t going to just cage themselves pic.twitter.com/9fuifzoFSn
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 24, 2018
imagine being separated from your brand by this administration and then never getting to be reunited
i cannot think of anything worse https://t.co/SuB4xqtI5D— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 24, 2018
People weren’t mincing words.
https://twitter.com/laurenzagram/status/1021965231168401409
What a loss😂Ivanka Trump pic.twitter.com/6c7ycgpTYp
— Debra Kamin (@ubucky) July 24, 2018
Ivanka Trump is immediately shutting down her fashion line so a moment of silence please for all those Chinese jobs lost.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) July 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1021835355144708096
"It turns out no one wants to buy garbage clothes from a garbage person so I'm shutting down my clothing line to focus on the thing I'm really not good at which is politics." – @IvankaTrump
— Travon (@Travon) July 24, 2018
Ivanka will put her energy to making the Emperor's New Clothes.
— Tgage (@tgagemurphy) July 24, 2018
TIRED: The emperor has no clothes.
WIRED: The emperor’s daughter had to shut down her clothing line due to poor sales, and she is complicit in the emperor’s racist policies.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) July 25, 2018
Ivanka Trump will now be shutting down her entire tacky fashion line effective immediately.
I really don’t care, do you?
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 24, 2018
Harsh. But some people focused on the positives, at least.
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1021820733348106245
On the upside, no American jobs will be lost. https://t.co/VULFJAnVw9
— SP Eaton (@speaton) July 24, 2018