As her father’s legacy has shifted much further into the criminal realm, rather than the presidential, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka has been making some notable decisions in what appears to be an attempt to distance herself from her father who currently has a staggering 91 criminal indictment over his head, multiple lawsuits and investigations, and even a formal “rapist” label.
It’s certainly undeniable at this point that what was one daddy’s favorite no longer appears to be publicly supporting her father like she once did. But, one new op-ed pointed out that, after taking a deeper look into the former first daughter’s social media presence, it looks as though Ivanka is attempting to flesh out her own “alternate reality,” in which her controversial, scandal-plagued father was never even the President of the United States, to begin with.
Following a deep dive into Ivanka Trump’s Instagram feed, Slate’s Greg Olear wrote, “Given that she was a registered Democrat in 2016, Ivanka could have elected not to participate in her father’s campaign. Instead, she and her husband lent their full-throated support.”
“She introduced him when he formally announced his candidacy. She endorsed him. She made appearances on his behalf. She did radio ads for him. She gave the speech at the RNC just before his. She did not waiver in her support even after the Access Hollywood tape dropped.”
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Olear went on to drop a laundry list of scandals and incidents throughout Donald Trump’s presidency — ranging from the infamous Muslim ban to the Kavanaugh sexual assault scandal to the heinous blundering of the global COVID-19 pandemic — all of which Ivanka stood idly and silently by in support of her father, leaving the Slate reporter to question just how strong “the hold her bestial pops has on her.”
But Ivanka Trump’s Instagram page tries to paint a different story entirely — one in which the former first daughter attempts to completely reinvent herself and rewrite a history that didn’t see her support for her father’s disgusting action because, in her new alternate reality, they never even happened.
Ivanka Trump’s Instagram feed is really not much different than your average social media influencer these days, full of photos of herself at concerts, relaxing by the pool, and enjoying quality time with her children.
“The captions, when they appear, are well written, thoughtful, gracious, kind. There is nary of whiff of humblebragging. Gratitude oozes from every post, from every ‘story.’ This is someone living the good life, who feels sincerely blessed to be living that good life,” Olear writes. “The woman on this Instagram page loves her friends (what few of them appear, what few of them remain). She loves her children. She loves, supports, is proud of her husband.”
However, as Olear notes, “Ivanka’s Instagram feed is an alternate reality. It’s what her life would have been like if her loutish old man had never been president, had lost in 2016, had never gone into politics, had never sold himself to the Russian mob, had dropped dead of a massive coronary on the set of Home Alone 2. This is a rose-colored fantasy world she’s trying so hard to make real. If she didn’t care about the public perception of her, why would she bother?”
“The tragedy in all of this is that Ivanka speaking out against Donald would have mattered,” the blistering op-ed continues. “Ivanka speaking out would have had real power. Ivanka speaking out would have saved lives.”
Olear acknowledges the fact that Ivanka Trump would have paid an enormous price had she dared to publicly speak out against her “petty, vengeful” father during those times, but the price of her silence was far more expensive in the end.
Read Olear’s full op-ed with Slate here.
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