Ivanka Trump, elder daughter of Donald, has never struck me as an attractive woman. I'm heterosexual, I think Sophia Loren is a goddess manifestation, that Marilyn Monroe was the prettiest woman who ever lived, but Ivanka? She's five feet eleven inches tall, blonde, well put together, having gained looks from her mother rather than her cave troll father. What turns my stomach about Ivanka Trump is her commitment to accumulating money and gaining power.
There's nothing normal or wholesome about a person who grows up in an environment of wealth and shady dealmaking, daughter of a narcissistic father (who sees himself in her frosty beauty), a girl whose friend growing up was, and still is, Chelsea Clinton, herself the daughter of narcissistic parents.
Ivanka Trump married Jared Kushner, one of those Trump relations, who, like Donald Trump, Jr., exudes the air of a character out of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. Bland, handsome on the surface, a human being surrounding a black hole where the heart should be. Kushner, himself part of a very wealthy Jewish family, brokered the 110 billion dollar deal--in a phone call--with Lockheed Martin to further beef up the already beefed up Saudi military.
Ivanka's husband, then, is a facilitator for merchants of death. Saudi Arabia's depredations against the Yemeni people continue, with U.S. assistance. The Arab world's poorest nation deals now with a cholera epidemic caused by Saudi Arabia and the United States. Smashing infrastructure, like water supply systems, causes future disease. In America's "lamestream media," (the one truly accurate phrase Sarah Palin ever coined) there is no discussion of Yemen's plight or the essential role two presidential administrations have played in making that catastrophe so. Obama and Trump are both war criminals. Trump, currently, is in trouble with Congress, the Senate, the FBI, the intelligence community at large, with the "liberal" news media, for his behavior past and present with Russian officials and, possibly, Russian organized crime figures in the post-Cold War era.
Impeachment has become, in news media discourse, "the I Word." Will Trump last to the end of this year? Why is Vice President Pence being marginalized when it comes to receiving information from Trump's circle about the FBI's Michael Flynn investigation? Obviously, this means Trump doesn't trust Pence insofar as he doesn't want the VP to know too much if Pence should ever be subpoenaed.
Now, Jared Kushner, President Trump's advisor and fucker of Trump's favorite woman, Ivanka, is under FBI investigation for allegedly attempting last December to set up a private line of communication between the Trump post-election transition team and "the Kremlin," meaning those nasty Russians.
This fits with other Russian ties, such as Flynn's, one time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's, Secretary of State Tillerson's (a friend of Putin), and Trump's coziness with Russians, too.
What glares at me about all this is how Trump, despite and because of his corruption, seeks to improve relations between the U.S. and Russia, while Democrats and their voices in the news media, want that relationship to be adversarial, criticizing Russia for its meddling and militarism in Ukraine, Georgia, the Crimean Peninsula, Syria, while the U.S. itself makes war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya; arms Egypt, supports that country's dictator, arms Saudi Arabia, supports that repressive government, maintains a worldwide military presence that even includes troops based in Suriname, Belize, Bulgaria, Greenland, Hungary, India, Madagascar, Ukraine, Vietnam, Barbados (where Rihanna is from--it's important to prevent more gorgeous and sexy singers from coming to the United States to make it big). This is a very partial list of the extremely obnoxious omnipresence of the U.S. military worldwide. Greenland, for God's sake! What's that duty like?
Recall President Obama's lack of rapport with Putin. There was no interest then on either side in getting things to lighten up between the two governments. Now, this relationship is regularly defined in the news media as adversarial. Trump is "crazy" and "borderline treasonous" for wanting to "get in bed with Putin." Conversely, one could argue that the two nations with the biggest nuclear arsenals getting along might be helpful for the future existence of the human race.
I doubt that Trump thinks in such subtle ways. His mind is a sledgehammer. You can tell by the way he shakes hands (holding on past the point of comfort for the person receiving the handshake) that he couldn't possibly be any good at pleasuring a woman. Sensitive about his small hands, he seeks to make them seem strong with an unrelenting grip. He doesn't back down, he doesn't admit to committing wrongs or telling lies, he's a real man in his dead father's eyes, in other words, a real prick. His two adult sons are pricks, his son-in-law is a prick, his daughter Ivanka is a "tough businesswoman" and, according to her proud father, "the smartest person I know."
Okay, fine, he's proud of his daughter, he even placed her husband in his cabinet and gave Ivanka an office and a role in the White House (something not granted, yet, and maybe never, to Mrs. Trump who remains in Manhattan) in a gross act of nepotism barely commented on negatively in the mainstream press. The worst practices of the Roman Empire are common in the U.S. government, nobody gives a shit.
Pictures of the Kushners, Jared and Ivanka (she, a convert to Judaism, her husband's religion), show a photo perfect family, with their three children. Being Jews, they don't seem to have a problem with Donald Trump's placement of Steve Bannon in the White House. Bannon, former head of Breitbart, a slick right wing news organization characterized by smears and hate mongering, has published numerous anti-Semitic articles, including pro-Nazi viewpoints. Jared and Ivanka suck this up, whatever problem they may have with Bannon's presence in their lives. Money and power beat out concerns about integrity and defense of one's religion, which of course makes them hypocrites--which makes them average American public figures exercising power these days.
No, I don't find Ivanka Trump attractive. She's just a more refined version of her father, whose rottenness infected her before she ever had a chance to be someone decent.
Vic Neptune
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