Wait until she tries to go back to Manhattan. From The Wichita Eagle:
Wichita State University and WSU Tech canceled Ivanka Trump’s scheduled virtual commencement speech without explanation Thursday in a late-night news release following a public outcry from faculty, students and alumni.
The joint university statement, which posted online late Thursday night, said the school’s plans have “refocused more centrally on students” and that Trump will be replaced by nursing graduate Rebecca Zinabu.
This is especially schadenfreude-y because Ivanka was invited to give the commencement address by the president of that university, who was appointed by Ivanka’s horrid father to the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. The board is co-chaired by Ivanka, despite Ivanka’s distinct lack of expertise on America or its workforce or policies or advisory roles or boards of any type, including regular old lumber.
Ivanka’s efforts on behalf of the board seem confined to robotically reciting speeches that sound as if they were written by a program that ingests the keynotes from every McKinsey & Co. conference and then vomits them out in random chunks.
She also meets with captains of industry who hope to ingratiate themselves with her awful father by enrolling existing training programs under the vaguely scammy advisory board banner for the purpose of allowing Trump Père to make preposterous claims like this:
“14 million people she’s gotten jobs for,” Trump said, referring to Ivanka. “Her goal when she started it two years ago was 500,000 jobs. She’s done over 14 million, so that’s really something.”
It IS really something, and that something is a lie: when Donald Trump said it, the number of jobs created by the entire U.S. economy during his administration was around 6 million. Ivanka told a more modest lie, claiming that the board had added 6.3 million jobs.
Credit for the DISinvitation goes to an associate professor at the university, Jennifer Ray, who wrote:
“Ivanka Trump, obviously, represents her father’s administration as one of his closest advisors. “To many Americans, that administration has come to signify the worst of our country, particularly in its recent actions toward those peacefully protesting against racist police brutality. This is not about politics and policy; some of the sharpest critiques of President Trump’s actions come from prominent members of his own party, from figures like former Defense Secretary James Mattis and President George W. Bush.”
Ivanka meeped about “cancel culture” and “viewpoint discrimination” and “academia” on Twitter, keeping alive her unbroken streak of declaiming pompously about nouns she’d clearly struggle to define. She also released the planned speech. An excerpt:
“You commence at a moment unlike any other. America and the world are battling a terrible pandemic. Our entire society is engaged in a national endeavor to defeat the virus, protect our fellow citizens, and open up America again to rebuild our economy and take care of the safety and well-being of our people.
“Right now I know the economic uncertainty is real, and it’s hard on many of you and your families. Your own blueprint for your future is likely changing due to the pandemic, but I am confident that even if your path is different form the one you imagined, ultimately it can be better than we could ever have planned.”
More vapid PowerPoint garbage. I’m sure the nurse will do much better speech on short notice and without servants and support staff. Congrats, WSU Tech Class of 2020!
Nicole
This was very satisfying.
My dear hope is that she and her brothers end up, every day of the rest of their lives, rueing the day their father decided to run for office.
Elizabelle
Without explanation. LOL.
A week from now is the scheduled West Point Graduation, for which their non-infected graduating class and staff are quarantining for. Now. Poor cadets. They deserve better.
Elizabelle
@Nicole: And stripped of their wealth, too.
The Moar You Know
@Nicole: They will.
Personally, I am looking forward to the part of the aftermath of the election when the rental wives of Don Jr. and Eric stop getting their checks from the GOP. I’m sure those two fine ladies already have lawyers paid up and ready to go.
If we can somehow get Jared in jail that will be the cherry on the cake of their defeat.
I would normally just shrug and say “well, they’ll get taken care of by some right wing think tank somewhere” but Trump has done such a scorched-earth job on America already that I’m not sure any organization can gamble on “employing” them.
cope
I read this earlier today. It gave me a SOL moment (“smile out loud” as nothing in the news makes me laugh out loud or to myself anymore).
I didn’t read her meeping but any decent human animal would have been gracious at the prospect of one of her intended audience getting extra recognition on a special day. I too look forward to the after-times when she and her siblings are rendered personas non grata except by the deplorables.
The Moar You Know
@Elizabelle: What wealth? They’ve been living on handouts their entire lives. I doubt their dad could foot the bill at a Denny’s if he had to.
The Trumps are fucking broke. Everything they “own” belongs to someone else.
Duane
The day has come when the Trump’s can’t show their face in public. Can’t walk down the street without fear. Publicly shunned. Go live in Russia if they’ll have you, traitors.
West of the Rockies
I suppose that like Jared, she can’t commit to racial equality and accountability for police officers.
RSA
Jesus. English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/why-is-it-called-commencement
FelonyGovt
This is delicious. If KANSAS is over her, her future prospects seem dim indeed. Bye bye New York (or DC) society for Princess Complicity.
Benw
There once was a daughter of Trump
Who was really, really, really dumb
She had us shot with tear gas
So WSU dumped her dumb ass
Fuck you, Ivanka Trump
MattF
@The Moar You Know:
I imagine there will be armies of lawyers brandishing multiple NDAs and prefucktual agreements, all spending billable hours. A 21st century version of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.
Chyron HR
Have any of DA SQUAD praised Vanky for being “to the left of the Democrats” yet?
Ruckus
Betty
Always a thing of beauty, your use of the language.
@Duane:
Yep, they have long outlived their welcome, such as it was, small and uninvited. Now it’s just time for them to sink back into the woodwork and not make any noises, especially that of them chewing on it like the termites they are, all squeaky noise and chewing on the supporting timbers of the country.
Hey it’s a theme, get over it….
WaterGirl
@Benw: That’s good. Now can you do one with the bible hidden in her expensive purse?
The Moar You Know
@RSA: Jesus. I don’t know how I missed that. That would be embarrassing if she were capable of the emotion.
Amir Khalid
Would one expect anything different from The Pointy-Haired Boss’s daughter?
The Moar You Know
@WaterGirl: “A” Bible. And it really looks like they just picked up the first one anyone could find, because that version is absolutely not approved by the Christian Taliban.
Calouste
Well, she’s as thick as a plank, so I guess that’s her relevant experience with regards to boards.
West of the Rockies
I can’t imagine students entering the job market today want to hear her phony, privileged, vocal-fried observations on any damn thing.
Benw
What is it? A bible
Where does it come from? A purse
Fuck you and your dad
Kent
Pretty much every cent they have was gained by marketing the Trump name at home and abroad. It is going to be the most toxic name in business and politics come 2021.
Oh to be a fly in the wall in 2021 at the first post-Presidency business meeting in which the Trump spawn pitch their next big Trump business idea to investors someplace.
WaterGirl
Wowl
Please allow me to re-write that for you.
WaterGirl
@The Moar You Know: Is there nothing they can’t fuck up? Besides the determined effort to destruction of our democracy.
Feathers
@MattF: One of the Dems first acts has to be that an NDA can be quashed by a judge if it is found to impede the interests of justice.
Or, better yet, that a person under an NDA can make a sealed deposition in a case, asking for the NDA to be broken.
Also, that NDAs covering witnesses to illegal behavior can be considered obstruction of justice.
Basically, a moratorium on NDAs, or at least ones without reasonable end dates, needs to happen.
WaterGirl
@Benw: I think that was probably for me? May I suggest an edit?
Aleta
“Right now I know the economic uncertainty is real, and it’s hard on many of you and your families. We’ve heard you. Soon we’ll announce our state-of-the-art loan program and yearly fee Gold Card exclusively tailored to America’s graduates. And for nongraduating students, our new Greatness University for all who don’t want to return to plague-ridden dorms and classrooms. After enrolling you’ll even be seeing me around online, as acting virtual President !” (Rainbow background)
Matt McIrvin
In other news: Boy, conservatives are REALLY MAD that liberals condemned their anti-social-distancing/anti-mask protests but went out themselves to protest cop brutality.
Doesn’t seem to have affected median public opinion much though.
Emma from FL
@FelonyGovt: She never really had NY society either. Those upper crust generations of money folks despise the Trumps with a passion. They’re all about social and cultural involvement in the megamillions. Trump’s cheapskate arse is not welcome.
Benw
@WaterGirl: edit accepted! ;)
MattF
Nepotism Barbie speaks to the people.
raven
I just went to help a neighbor with a small project and there are groups of kids with signs headed downtown. The right wingers are furious and pushing the “anitfa is going to burn down Athens” so I hope these kids stay safe. With the virus, my shitty balance and short fuse Imma have to sit this one out.
rikyrah
HumboldtBlue
“We played your game and you dropped bombs on us.”
different-church-lady
You must be so goddamned proud, Zuckerberg.
Yutsano
@Emma from FL: He’s a crude lowlife from Queens. His family was raised with no class and no actual sense of how to act among the actual rich. The Roosevelts and the Stuyvesants aren’t going to bother with such trash. Not even as possible entertainment.
different-church-lady
@RSA: Whom among us has not commenced at unique times?
rikyrah
@Emma from FL:
They never allowed their kids to marry Dolt45’s spawn.
Jared wasn’t ‘ A’ list elite .
And the women the sons married?
Nope 😠
Tiffany had to go overseas to get a rich boyfriend.
Wag
Even with all the servants she can’t get her speech written correctly.
Martin
@FelonyGovt: FWIW, university faculty are not really of a place. It’s a global hiring market, and faculty see themselves as bringing the culture to a place, not really adopting the existing culture.
I mean, that’s sort of the point of universities to begin with – to exist outside of the local culture – which is why they’re always derided as liberal, because exposure to other people and other cultures is definitely part of the goal.
The Moar You Know
@MattF: When people’s eyes in no way match their facial expressions, that’s some uncanny valley territory there. Her face is saying “I’m reasonable and I care” but her eyes are saying “This is a waste of my precious time and I want you all dead.”
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
shitforbrains is the ultimate fuck up. It’s his nature, it’s all he knows and the only thing he’s ever been good at – fucking up everything he gets anywhere near. He’s a specialist in fucking up. If you want to be a fuck up, he’s your role model. Look at his supporters if this gives you any doubt. His family, his business, the country, whoever and whatever he comes in contact with is fucked, quite possibly/likely beyond any redemption.
The Moar You Know
@different-church-lady: That family is fucking lucky they weren’t all murdered. And yeah, you can lay this incident, like so many others, at Mark’s feet.
prostratedragon
The future is something for Dirk Diggler to look forward to.
LuciaMia
Come inauguration day 2021, set your egg-timers for Melania’s suing-for-divorce announcement.
WaterGirl
@Benw: thank you!
HumboldtBlue
Dads, bruh…
scav
@The Moar You Know: It does sound like of thise evil little towns in movies where with the twist that the terrorisizing madmen with the chain saws are the locals, lead by the ministers and the doctors. Stick a fork in Forks is entirely too tempting a title for any anti-travel literature against whatever bumph their tourist board puts out. Or, F*ck Forks for the even pithier (if slightly squeemish) option,
debbie
Ivanka is the cancel culture. She has no redeeming value of any kind, and there is no reason why she should be given the opportunity to speak to a group of young people she cannot in any way relate to.
debbie
@Emma from FL:
There’s a reason Trump got 9.7% of the vote in 2016 in Manhattan. If only the rest of the world had noticed!
Nicole
We attended a rally/march this morning- the March for Stolen Lives and Looted Dreams, the flyer for this one said- at Frederick Douglass Circle, here in Harlem. Several thousand people, by the time the march started (which we didn’t go on- though I know the risk of outdoor transmission is low, NYC has been through so much, and I’m really anxious about catching Covid-19 now, when we’re on the other side of the mountain, so we stayed near the back of the crowds, where there was more open space).
I remember the RNC here in 2004, and all of the protests and marches, and while I participated in a lot of them, I also remember feeling despair, because I knew no one was listening or paying attention- the GOP didn’t give a shit what anyone other than their donors thought about their policies. This time, when we’re over a week into protests, and they are still going strong, and are all over the world- I’m letting myself be a little hopeful that reforms will actually occur. Cops can threaten and attack and bully, but ultimately, there’s a lot more of us than there are of them.
artem1s
JFC on a sidecar.
GUILFORD, Maine – President Donald Trump traveled to Maine Friday to tour a facility that makes medical swabs used for coronavirus testing, but the swabs manufactured in the background during his visit will ultimately be thrown in the trash, the company said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/05/trump-maine-puritan-throw-away-coronavirus-swabs/3153622001/
Another Scott
@different-church-lady:
AlJazeera:
It’s an opinion piece about Kenya and CA, but the same thing is happening here.
Zuckerberg knows very well what people are doing on his platform, and he’s being paid handsomely for it.
It’s working as designed.
Grrr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Duane
@artem1s: Just as Ruckus said, he fucks up EVERYTHING! He could fuck up another person’s wet dream.
Kent
And those 9.7% were probably mostly just asshole bond traders, landlords, and cops.
Dahlia
@LuciaMia: Maybe a stopwatch would be more useful for that.
Stephanie
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1269289284529504256?s=21
low-tech cyclist
Wow, what a shocker.
Oops, let me correct that: what a Shocker. There, got that uppercase this time.
I refer, of course, to Dr. Jennifer Ray, who made Corruption Barbie’s commencement appearance problematic. I’m certain that we’ll be able to say the same about new graduate Rebecca Zinabu, once she gives her speech.
(Just in case nobody gets it, the Wichita State teams are the Shockers. Nobody in my family went there – the Kansas branch of the family was strictly KU – but you learn these things.)
Snarki, child of Loki
“Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely.”
I heard from someone. Sounds plausible.
Just One More Canuck
@The Moar You Know:
Nothing that complex – more like “My cat’s breath smells like cat food”
Bill Arnold
So tempting. Oh so tempting.
Aleta
@Stephanie: she just gets more horrible. like a simulcrum on drugs.