Since joining her father’s administration, Ivanka Trump has struggled to find her niche in a White House decidedly more conservative than herself. Helping women around the globe may have seemed like a safe and somewhat apolitical haven.
During a five-day South American trip to promote women’s empowerment, Ivanka Trump was greeted like a head of state everywhere she went.
The No. 2 at the State Department, Deputy Secretary John Sullivan, said her “star power” and policy knowledge are a powerful combination. “She is a White House official who speaks with great authority on the president’s policies,” he said.But the 37-year-old, who has no previous experience in leading such a massive humanitarian program, has so far not managed to win over those who wonder whether her work is a vanityor a true commitment to helping disenfranchised women.
Her father frequently gives her a hand, sometimes introducing her on foreign trips as on equal standing with U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, raising eyebrows about her status and aspirations. Trump listened to stories from Paraguayan women, mostly speaking in the indigenous Guarani tongue, about their struggles in attempting to start businesses. She visited a coffee shop run by women who told her it welcomed members of the gay community. Trump smiled politely and said the shop was indeed a “special place.”
At a migrant camp for women and children, Ivanka Trump embraced several mothers who told harrowing tales of escape.Andry Rodriguez, a 12-year-old boy in a wheelchair, his legs as skinny as curtain rods, told Trump how he wanted to be a veterinarian and missed the dog he had to leave behind in Venezuela. His mother, Wendy Quevedo, said she pushed the wheelchair across Venezuela for a week to reach Cucuta. The account clearly moved Trump, who repeated it several times throughout the trip.
But critics say any holistic approach to women’s empowerment must also address the fundamental obstacles of health and reproductive systems.
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