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Ivanka Trump Jokes That Being Trump's Daughter 'Is the Hardest Job in the World'


Many people have taken issue with the fact that First Daughter Ivanka Trump has benefitted from her family background, particularly after she publicly stated in February that she believes Americans “want to work for what they get” instead of being guaranteed jobs. But she seemed to take recent criticism in stride at a white-tie gathering on Saturday night, joking that “the hardest job in the world” is being Donald Trump’s daughter.

According to The Washington Post, Ivanka cracked this joke (and several others) after her dad asked her to represent him at the annual Gridiron dinner on Saturday night, which is attended by politicians and elite journalists in the country.

“The press seems to think it’s ironic that I, born of great privilege, think people want to work for what they are given,” she said. “As if being Donald Trump’s daughter isn’t the hardest job in the world.”

The comment was an obvious reference to the spar she recently got into with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s. It all started when Ivanka appeared on Fox News and discussed Ocasio-Cortez’s ambitious Green New Deal proposal. Ocasio-Cortez has said that the deal will guarantee jobs for all Americans, but Ivanka made it clear that she’s skeptical.

“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,” Ivanka said on Fox. “I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for what they get.”

Ocasio-Cortez quickly took issue with Ivanka’s point of view, particularly because Ivanka has been afforded some undeniable privileges as a member of theTrump family.

“As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in Twitter.

A debate subsequently unfolded on Twitter in the following days, but Ivanka didn’t seem phased by any of it when she spoke on Saturday. At one point, she said that because her father had asked her to show up at the last minute, she hadn’t been able to prepare more jokes.

“I figured the funniest thing I could do is read you excerpts from the Green New Deal,” she said, again referencing the AOC idea that got her in hot water to begin with.

Ivanka’s little comedy bit might not sit well with supporters of the proposal—but it’s safe to say controversy is nothing the First Daughter isn’t used to by now.



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Melania Trump's Stylist Wants You to Stop Reading Into Her Outfits


A First Lady’s wardrobe is often the subject of public scrutiny. That’s certainly been true of Melania Trump‘s fashion choices: Despite her insistence that the media and the President’s detractors assign meaning to her outfits where there is none, many of her looks have been criticized for their exorbitant price point and apparent mixed messaging. And with a white-out planned by Democratic lawmakers for the 2019 State of the Union, some wondered what the First Lady would wear to the event.

Trump and stylist Hervé Pierre landed on a black trench dress by Burberry for the President’s address to the nation. And in an interview with WWD, Pierre was quick to clarify that the public shouldn’t read into the choice of designer—or anything else she wears while residing in the White House.

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“As long as I find the right outfit, the designer is almost irrelevant,” the stylist told WWD. “The designer, well, is Burberry, but it could have been anybody else. It has nothing to do with England or Brexit. If I would have to think of all these things when I look at dresses and outfits, I would lose my mind.

“Afterward, social media will go on about Brexit or whatever,” Pierre continued. “They have to do their own version of this. On my side, believe me, I don’t think of it. Because I don’t have time to do that.”

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In the case of Trump’s State of the Union look, Pierre explained that the Burberry trench dress was a practical choice: “It’s very sharp and straight to the point. There is no room for fluff or something cute. I think she is a daring woman, but it has to be right. It is not a costume.” The stylist bought the dress for the First Lady in New York City, according to WWD. The Melton Wool Tailored Coat, from Riccardo Tisci’s debut collection from the brand, retails for $2,390.

Last year Trump wore a white Christian Dior pantsuit and Dolce & Gabbana blouse to the State of the Union. Some interpreted it as a reference to Hillary Clinton’s white inauguration pantsuit and the suffragette movement. Onlookers also noted that Dior is currently led by Maria Grazia Chiuri, a designer who has identified herself and her work as feminist.

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According to Pierre, though, these interpretations simply aren’t something he thinks about when he’s dressing the First Lady. Her outfits may ignite conversation, but they’re apparently not intended to communicate any larger message.



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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Voted on Trump's Asylum Reform From Her Hospital Bed


On Friday, immediately following surgery to remove two cancerous nodes from her left lung, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted against President Donald Trump’s proposed immigrant asylum restrictions from her hospital bed. Hers was the decisive vote in the 5-4 decision to strike down the proposal, NPR reported.

The proposal, NBC explained, would have automatically denied asylum to people who enter the United States from Mexico without going through official border crossings. Trump said the proposal was in direct response to the migrant caravan making its way toward the southern border.

Beyond being able to cast her vote, it appears the Notorious RBG is also on the up and up with her health. In November, the Supreme Court justice was hospitalized following a fall that left her with several broken ribs. According to a statement from the Supreme Court, doctors discovered her cancerous nodes while undergoing routine care for her injury. Following the surgery, doctors announced they were able to remove all of the cancer, and it appears it did not spread.

“According to the thoracic surgeon, Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, both nodules removed during surgery were found to be malignant on initial pathology evaluation,” a statement by her physicians read. “Post-surgery, there was no evidence of any remaining disease. Scans performed before surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Currently, no further treatment is planned. Justice Ginsburg is resting comfortably and is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days. Updates will be provided as they become available.”

As NPR noted, by Friday evening, the 85-year-old was sitting up in her hospital room’s chair calling friends and sounding “chipper.” She apparently even hopes to be back in the courtroom for the next argument session, which begins in early January—and that’s entirely possible, according to Dr. Douglas Mathisen, chairman of thoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, who told NPR that recovery from an operation like hers typically ranges from two to four days in the hospital. And because RBG seems to get a lifetime’s worth of work done in an hour, we’re confident we’ll see her back in her robe in January.

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Ivanka Trump's Curious Absence From the Midterm Campaign Trail


From the moment Ivanka Trump strode to the podium at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland to introduce her father, she’s held a special place in his plan and in American politics. Wearing a simple pink dress from her now-defunct fashion line, a congenial addition to the fiery lineup of Trump supporters calling for his opponent to be locked up, she delivered a promise: Donald Trump would come to the Oval Office with an intention to treat women with the respect and compassion they deserved.

The address got great reception. Ivanka’s stock went up, and she was widely perceived as someone who could tailor her father’s bluster into a message that younger women, moderates and independents could get behind.

And it seemed to work: her dad went on to defeat Hillary Clinton with considerable support from white female voters.

That was then. Now, just days remain in one of the most wildly contentious midterm elections in modern history. Women, as candidates and voters, have been squarely center stage. You’d expect Ivanka Trump—the figure who said her priority as the daughter of a would-be president (and later, his advisor) would be women—to be front and center. But, largely, she’s been absent from the scene.

While her father, brothers, and much of the political class keep up a breakneck campaign-trail pace, Ivanka seems to be sticking to her day job. A spokesperson for the 36-year-old didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but she, along with other women of the White House, will reportedly be hitting the trail for certain candidates in the big run-up to November 6—a day that could end up saying a lot about how Americans feel about not just the people on the ballot, but the president and his party.

You’d expect Ivanka—the figure who said her priority as the daughter of the president would be women—to be front and center. But, largely, she’s been absent.

It’s not that she hasn’t been seen at all. Over the summer, she took a break from her work promoting women’s equal pay and STEM education issues to attend a GOP fundraiser with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in Fresno, California. The event drew protesters who figured out where it was being held, despite reported attempts to keep the location quiet. But watchers of this midterm cycle’s campaign trail don’t think it would hurt to see more of her.

Amy Tarkanian, a former Nevada Republican Party chairwoman whose husband, Danny, is running for Congress, says she would love to see Trump publicly pitching GOP candidates: “Oh, I think she would be incredibly helpful,” she told Glamour in a phone conversation. “I think she’s the voice that most women never thought they had.”

While her father and brothers have their own communication styles and have put them to use out on the trail, the First Daughter is “able to take a stand with grace and elegance, and still exude this enormous amount of power, also mixed in with femininity,” Tarkanian said. “I think a lot of people on either side of the aisle [seem] to view her as a voice of reason, which I think is extremely powerful in this environment where you’ve got [people going] far to the right, far to the left, and toxicity all wrapped into one giant ball.”

Although she thinks an Ivanka arena-style appearance has the potential to draw “thousands,” Tarkanian—who jokingly calls herself a “taxi mom” for all the time she spends chauffeuring her own kids around—isn’t willing to lay into the presidential scion for not being on the trail 24/7. If Ivanka Trump doesn’t go into full barnstorming mode, “I don’t think it’s ‘disappointing.’ I think people realize she’s a mom, she’s a wife, she’s a daughter. She’s in a role that I don’t believe [any] other first daughter’s ever had,” she says.

“[Trump’s] got so many roles. There’s no way—I mean, I’m a mom of four and a wife and a daughter, and I feel like I need an assistant with an assistant with an assistant. So I understand completely, and I think most women would who are in this role of the parent in a middle class family trying to get everyone from Point A to Point B.”

Whether the First Daughter’s presence would still draw ire from those who criticize her for being quiet about other high-profile administration fumbles is unclear. As both daughter and aide to her father—and one whose husband, Jared Kushner, is also a top White House advisor—she’s also been called out for not being vocal enough in opposing administration policies that would seem to run counter to her message of caring for women and children. High on that list: Opposing the separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Ivanka eventually described the separations as a “low point” and publicly said she opposed them (while still calling immigration a complex issue).

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The advisor to the president also got name-checked during the divisive confirmation of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: A-listers demanded she live up to her self-proclaimed feminism by pushing for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against the judge. (Kavanaugh denied the claims; after a briefly renewed FBI background check, he ultimately got confirmed in a close Senate vote.)

Elizabeth Renda, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, told Glamour via email that “whether she shows her face on the campaign trail or not, Americans won’t forget Ivanka Trump’s complicity in the Trump administration’s dangerous rhetoric and harmful policies, which consistently hurt working and middle-class families.”

But ultimately, says Sarah Chamberlain of the non-profit Republican Main Street Partnership, it’s up to the candidates to make their own sales to voters.It’s been great to have Ivanka bring some attention to officials’ work and “highlighting key policies and initiatives that we’ve championed,” Chamberlain said, but “our members are focusing on their own major accomplishments and wins.”

Celeste Katz is senior political reporter for Glamour. Send news tips, questions, and comments to celeste_katz@condenast.com.In a pivotal election year, Glamour is keeping track of the historic number of women running (and voting) in the midterm elections. For more on our latest midterm coverage, visit www.glamour.com/midterms.

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Michael Cohen Arranged Payments to Women at Donald Trump's Direction


Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump who once said he would take a bullet for the President, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a string of eight federal criminal counts.

On paper, the violations sounded grave, technical, and weedy: Tax evasion. Bank fraud. Breaking campaign finance laws. But what it really boils down to is the fact that Cohen’s confession means he worked specifically on behalf of “a candidate for federal office” to silence women.

It was the first time the lawyer “admitted to coordinating with the President on the hush-money deals with women” after months of public denial, implicating the nation’s leader in his crimes, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In short, Trump’s encounters with women may be the game changer in this presidency.

If you haven’t been following, here’s why this matters: Cohen and Team Trump have been pretty vocal about discrediting women. Former Playboy model Karen McDougal and porn actress Stormy Daniels have said they had sexual relationships with Trump; afterward, they were paid to keep quiet and, they claimed, at times threatened to stay that way.

Among the many times Cohen rejected the accounts include a statement in January, where he responded to a WSJ report that revealed the existence of the $130,000 payment to Daniels a month before the 2016 presidential election: “This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client. You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year; a narrative that has been consistently denied by all parties since at least 2011.” And in a lawsuit filed by Daniels to sue her former lawyer Keith Davidson for allegedly collaborating with Cohen to disclose her legal strategy, Cohen is named in an allegation that he held a meeting with First Lady Melania Trump to discredit Daniels.

Trump has denied affairs with the women, who were not named in Tuesday’s complaint, with Cohen being the front-facing enforcer of this denial for months.

Also not named: Trump himself—but Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, left no question as to which “candidate for federal office” his client meant: “Michael Cohen took this step today so that his family can move on to the next chapter. This is Michael fulfilling his promise made on July 2nd to put his family and country first and tell the truth about Donald Trump,” Davis tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

“Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election,” Davis continued. “If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”

Cohen wasn’t the only former member of Team Trump in court Tuesday: A jury also convicted the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort on eight of 18 felony charges covering a variety of financial crimes.

Trump, who rallied fans in West Virginia after the competing court dramas, told reporters he considered Manafort to be a “good man” and railed against a “witch hunt.” The president addressed Cohen’s case in a Wednesday interview on Fox and Friends, claiming he knew nothing of the hush payments at the time.

Trump’s attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, insisted there was “no allegation of any wrongdoing against the President in the charges.” This is the same Giuliani who, in June, attempted to discredit Daniels with comments that many believed to be misogynistic.

“I respect all human beings. I even have to respect criminals,” he said. “But I’m sorry, I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career women or a women of substance or a woman who has great respect for herself as a women and as a person and isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation.”

There’s clearly a long record of Trump having, to put it mildly, a complicated relationship with women, from his serial marriages to the names he calls them.

But if Trump is found to have run afoul of the rules in an attempt to hush up women whose stories could have hurt his campaign, legal analysts say it won’t be repeated trips down the aisle or Twitter insults that end up being the president’s real problem.





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Here's the Latest Explanation for Melania Trump's Infamous 'I Really Don't Care, Do U?' Jacket


Melania Trump is described as a “mysterious First Lady” weathering a chaotic White House in an in-depth New York Times profile published on Friday. The piece examines her role in the administration and references the “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” jacket that created a lot of controversy during her visit to the border in June—which, according to a source in the story, she wore as a statement toward anyone “outside and inside the White House” critical of her decision to visit a shelter for migrant children.

If you remember, Trump was photographed stepping out of her car at the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland before boarding a jet to the Texas Upbring New Hope Children’s Shelter. The images captured her green jacket, made by Zara, emblazoned with the words, “I really don’t care, do u?” Many instantly took issue with the First Lady’s choice of fashion, calling it tone-deaf and insensitive in the context of her visit to a children’s shelter during the family separation crisis.

Already, there have been myriad excuses made for the jacket: Donald Trump said his wife was addressing the news media, while Melania’s camp wrote in an email to White House pool reporters, “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message.” This new explanation from the Times‘ anonymous source suggests that the jacket was a calculated move aimed at detractors who took issue with the First Lady visiting the children’s shelter—a move that would seem to conflict with her husband’s hard-line stances on immigration.

Per the article, “a person close to Mrs. Trump said the jacket was actually directed at anyone—both outside and inside the White House—who wanted to criticize her decision to visit the children in light of the administration’s aggressive immigration policies.”

Despite the reframing of the situation, the East Wing insisted to the New York Times that the jacket “had no underlying message.”

“No one tells the first lady what to do,” Trump’s communications director Stephanie Grisham says in the piece. “Our office has nothing to do with what clothing choices she makes, and this situation was no different.”

Melania has made headlines for occasionally seeming to contradict the President—most recently, she released a statement applauding basketball player Lebron James’ charitable work after her husband bashed him on Twitter. However, many people have accused her of being disengaged, since she rarely appears in public. She’s also faced backlash for her frequent silence amid the administration’s more controversial moments and for her “Be Best” campaign against cyberbullying, which has been called ironic, given the President’s tendency to lambast people online. (It’s also had some trouble taking off).

That’s about it on the jacket front, but the Times‘ profile makes for a good read—click on over to it here.

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