She won’t be engaging this riddle in her new book, “Women Who Work,” due out in early May, and I say
that not because I know what’s in it — I don’t — but because I know Ivanka, or at least I’ve been watching her closely for a while.
Ivanka Trump’s Bitter Scent -
The next time you hear about the sway that Ivanka Trump holds over her father
and what a powerful advocate for equal opportunity she is, I want you to remember these numbers:
That’s how many men are in, or poised to join, the president’s cabinet.
It’s an overstuffed flea market of threadbare aphorisms (“never ever settle,” “work to become, not to acquire,”
“keep your head up,” “there is enough success for everyone”) in fanciful typography and pinkish hues.
In campaigning full-force for her father, she and her brothers seemed at once to be repaying a debt — they’d profited so enormously from the Trump name —
and hopping aboard a ride to greater dividends still.
It’s for “the woman who could stop all this but won’t.” Ivanka looks lovingly into a mirror — and sees her father staring back.