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Ivanka Trump Misattributed an Ancient Jewish Proverb to Emma Watson


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Who said it: an ancient Jewish religious leader or Emma Watson?

Ivanka Trump guessed wrong in a recent Instagram post, where the first daughter shared an image of the quote: “If not me, who? If not now, when?” She attributed the quote to Watson, when in fact—as Teen Vogue pointed out—the words come from Hillel the Elder, a famous Jewish religious leader who shared his wisdom during the first century BCE. (His original proverb went as follows: “If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”)

Some sharp-eyed Instagram users were quick to spot the error, commenting “Didn’t realize Emma became a rabbi” and “I didn’t know Hillel changed his name to Emma Watson.” New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum tweeted out a screenshot of the post, noting that Ivanka is Jewish—which makes her mistake even harder to believe.

Now, there’s a likely explanation for Ivanka’s mix-up. Watson didn’t invent the quote, but she did use it when she spoke at the United Nations in 2014 to announce her “HeforShe” campaign.

“In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly—if not me, who, if not now, when,” she said. “If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope those words might be helpful.” The actress and activist said the quote again at the end of her speech.

Back in July, an old tweet of Ivanka’s surfaced in which she misquoted Albert Einstein. The first daughter might need to work on her social media strategy—and pass the message along to her dad, while she’s at it.



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Ruin Your Day With this Video of Trump Talking About Ivanka Calling Him 'Daddy'


Here’s a tidbit about Donald and Ivanka Trump‘s relationship you definitely didn’t ask for: the president apparently likes it when the first daughter calls him “Daddy.”

Yep, you read that right. President Donald Trump was joined by Ivanka on Wednesday in North Dakota, where he was speaking about tax reform—and things got a little icky when he called his daughter up to the stage.

“Look at Ivanka. Come on up honey. She’s so good,” Trump told the crowd. “She wanted to make the trip, she said, ‘Dad can I go with you?’ She actually said, ‘Daddy’ can I go with you?’ I like that.”

BuzzFeed News reporter Dominic Holden tweeted a video of the cringeworthy moment:

We’re terribly sorry for ruining your night, but if we had to watch it, you do, too.



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Ivanka Trump Once Tweeted in Support of an Undocumented Immigrant—and It's Coming Back to Bite Her


Ivanka Trump once tweeted in support of an undocumented immigrant who worked her way up to a Wall Street job—and in the wake of the president’s controversial DACA decision, Twitter isn’t letting her forget it.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump called for an end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. It didn’t take long for Twitter users to dredge up a 2015 tweet from Ivanka Trump linking to a list of what she’d been up to over the past week—including reading a Bloomberg article about Julissa Arce, an undocumented immigrant who became a Goldman Sachs star.

“We love this story about an undocumented immigrant who worked her way up on Wall Street,” the first daughter wrote at the time.

In re-sharing the 2015 tweet, people have been calling out Ivanka—who has said she tries to “stay out of politics”—for not speaking up in defense of DACA.

Arce, who shared a stage with Ivanka at the 2015 Forbes Women’s Summit, condemned Ivanka’s support for her father in an essay for CNN published in September of 2016.

“[Ivanka] had an incredible opportunity to stand up to racism and hate when her father announced his candidacy, yet she has failed to disavow the hateful rhetoric that we have heard time and again,” Arce wrote. Last month, Arce tweeted that she “wouldn’t have been able to contribute to this country” if Trump were president before she gained citizenship.

As news spread Monday about Trump’s impending DACA announcement, immigrants who had been protected under the program—who are known as “Dreamers”—held a candlelight vigil outside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner‘s home. They carried signs with phrases such as “Ivanka and Jared, please protect Dreamers, keep DACA!”

Dreamers may have seen a glimmer of hope in Ivanka because she hasn’t always expressed the same anti-immigration sentiments as her father. In April, not long after Trump announced his travel ban, Ivanka said on NBC that the U.S. may need to let in more Syrian refugees. But when it comes to DACA, she hasn’t spoken up.

Arce addressed Ivanka’s silence in a Monday tweet, writing, “Before things got Political, @IvankaTrump loved my story. But now her silence says it all.”



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Ivanka Trump Supports Her Dad's Choice to Block Equal Pay Legislation


The Trump administration is doing away with an Obama-era initiative to close the gender wage gap—and Ivanka Trump is okay with it.

To hold employers accountable for promoting equal pay, former President Barack Obama created a rule requiring them to release salary data categorized by gender and race. It was set to go into effect in spring 2018—but now, thanks to the Trump administration, it never will.

Obama’s rule was “enormously burdensome,” Neomi Rao, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, told the Wall Street Journal. “We don’t believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination.” As a result, the Trump administration decided to block it.

Some wondered what Ivanka Trump, who serves as her father’s adviser, might have to say about this—given that she’s made wage equality one of her causes. On Equal Pay Day, she wrote on Facebook that “closing the gender pay gap is critical to the economic empowerment of American women,” and that she would “work towards this goal alongside my father.” And when she announced her global Women Entrepreneurs Fund, she cited combating the wage gap as one of her goals.

But Ivanka has been criticized for paying lip service to gender equality without doing much to further it. She’s stayed silent on her father’s decisions to cut funding for women’s healthcare and remove other Obama-era legislation to protect women in the workplace. In fact, she told the Washington Post that she tries not to give her dad her opinion at all. Her book, Women Who Work, claimed to help women get ahead in the workplace—but it was widely denounced as relevant only to a privileged few.

So it’s perhaps no surprise that Ivanka is standing by her father, as usual. “Ultimately, while I believe the intention was good and agree that pay transparency is important, the proposed policy would not yield the intended results,” she said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal. “We look forward to continuing to work with EEOC, OMB, Congress and all relevant stakeholders on robust policies aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap.”

The Anne Frank Center—among others on Twitter—have called her out for this statement, using it as further proof that she’s mostly talk and little action when it comes to gender equality.



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