Ivanka Trump can’t seem to do anything right in the eyes of the media.
On Friday, Vanity Fair accused Ivanka of superficially making a private donation to a church that helps kids at the border. This came after an unnamed evangelical leader told CBN News that Ivanka donated $50,000 to a church in Plano, Texas.. CBN reported the source as saying that Ivanka reached out to Prestonwood Baptist Church and made the donation “before the announcement of her father’s executive order.”
After Ivanka posted “tone-death photos on Instagram” holding her son and made up “Chinese proverbs on Twitter,” she needed positive PR, according to Vanity Fair writer Bess Levin. That’s why she wondered “how word of this secret donation made its way to the media” and suggested Ivanka’s private donation was leaked to the press – or not.
“[W]e would never suggest that someone in Javanka’s personal press shop was the source here,” Levin coyly promised.
At the same time, Levin argued that there is a “regular occurrence for reports portraying Ivanka in a light that doesn’t hurt shoe and handbag sales to surface around the time she’s being called out in the press.”
Because God forbid Ivanka actually does something positive without it being a strategically thought-out PR stunt. Maybe she really didn’t want people to know about the donation – but the pastor decided to leak it anyways.
According to Levin, Ivanka’s donation is “nice” but “not as nice as taking a vocal stand against an administration with a horrible attitude toward immigrants and refugees.”
However, Levin admitted, “it’s a start!” and concluded mockingly, “let’s join the president’s daughter in thanking the president for putting a stop to the policy his own attorney general enacted.”
Yes, Levin hinted that Ivanka cares more about how “images of traumatized children do not make for great P.R.” than the well-being of those children. So what should Ivanka do? She tries to help, she get bashed. She does nothing, she gets bashed. It’s a lose/lose situation – at least in the media.
