My father, ‘a tremendous champion’
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IVANKA Trump brushed aside groans and hisses yesterday over her father’s track record and defended his attitude toward women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser.
She pledged to push for “incremental, positive change” for women in the US and told a Berlin conference on women she’s still “rather unfamiliar” with her role as first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump.
The groans and hisses came as she described her father as “a tremendous champion of supporting families.”
Her one-day visit, at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, gave Merkel and other officials face-to-face access with the president’s influential daughter at a time when world leaders are still trying to discern where his policies will lead.
The two women were part of a high-powered panel discussion at the W20 Summit, a women-focused effort within the Group of 20 countries, entitled “Inspiring women: Scaling up women’s entrepreneurship.” They were joined by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and the Netherlands’ Queen Maxima, among others.
The 35-year-old Trump, who stepped away from running her fashion brand and from an executive role at the Trump Organization to become an unpaid White House adviser, said she is still finding her feet in her new role. “I’m listening, I’m learning, I’m defining the ways in which I think that I’ll be able to have impact” in empowering women in the US economy and beyond, she said.
She says she plans “to bring the advice, to bring the knowledge, back to the United States, back to both my father and the president — and hopefully that will bring about incremental, positive change. And that is my goal.”
Trump has been a vocal advocate for policies benefiting working women and vocational training. During Merkel’s visit to Washington in March, she organized a discussion with the German leader, her father, and American and German executives about how companies can better train workers.
Berlin moderator Miriam Meckel questioned Trump about her White House role. “As a part of the audience, especially the German audience, is not that familiar with the concept of the ‘first daughter’ I’d like to ask you: what is your role and who are you representing — your father as the president of the United States, the American people or your business?”
“Certainly not the latter. And I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me,” Trump replied. She added that “it has been a little under 100 days but it has just been a remarkable, incredible journey.”
Meckel intervened again after Trump described the president as “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive.”
Meckel said: “Some attitudes toward women your father has publicly displayed in former times might leave one questioning whether he’s such an empowerer for women.”
Trump said her experience and the fact “thousands” of women had worked with Donald Trump for decades in the private sector “are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man.”
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