Ivanka disagrees with her father on 2 issues

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With many children have yet to be unified with their parents, Ivanka Trump broke her silence on family separations at the US-Mexico border, saying Thursday that the news "was a low point" during her time in the White House.

"That was a low point for me as well," she said Thursday, speaking at an Axios News Shaper conversation on workforce development at the Newseum. "I felt very strongly about that and I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children so I would agree with that sentiment. Immigration is incredibly complex as a topic. Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated."

Ivanka Trump continued Thursday, "I am the daughter of an immigrant, my mother grew up in communist Czech Republic, but we are a country of laws. She came to this country legally and we have to be very careful about incentivizing behavior that puts children at risk of being trafficked, at risk of entering this country with coyotes or making an incredibly dangerous journey alone. These are not easy issues, these are incredibly difficult issues and like the rest of the country, I experienced them actually in a very emotional way."
Ivanka Trump remained silent as the images, audio and stories from the border captured the nation's attention in June, the White House issuing a statement on her behalf. She met with her father to discuss the images of families being separated before he signed his executive order, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN at the time.

"She offered the President her support and she said she would talk to any member of Congress to help find a legislative solution to the issue," Gidley said.

After their meeting, the senior adviser called House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, both Republican lawmakers with whom she developed a close relationship during her push on the child tax credit.

Her private conversation with her father was first revealed by the President during a closed-door meeting with House Republicans.

"He mentioned Ivanka talked to him about that," New York's Republican Rep. Chris Collins told reporters after the meeting.

Collins continued: "His daughter had seen the images and said for a lot of reasons we should be dealing with this."

Ivanka Trump said Thursday she does not believe the press is the enemy of the American people, putting her at odds with a view repeatedly expressed by her father, President Donald Trump, and his White House, which declined to take a stand on the issue hours later.

Asked at an Axios event at the Newseum in Washington if she believes "the media is the enemy of the people," Ivanka Trump, a White House senior adviser, replied, "No, I do not."

"I've certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate, so I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they're sort of targeted," she continued. "But no, I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people."

Stephen Colbert unleashed a fiery torrent of criticism of Ivanka Trump on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Late Show.”

The comedian picked apart Trump’s Thursday interview at an Axios event, during which she said family separation at the border was “a low point” for her.

“But somehow I got through it by doing nothing,” said Colbert, imitating President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser.

He skewered Trump over her responses to questions about the media being “the enemy of the people” and her “high point” of her job.

Ivanka Trump's intention in the interview was clear: try to quell the firestorms her father starts. Elsewhere in the interview, she also disputed his characterization of the media as the "enemy of the people." But for words to have meaning and not just sound like what people want to hear, they need to be backed up by action. And on that point, Ivanka Trump fails the test, every time -- especially on family separation.
The first daughter has consistently played the role of "good cop" in the Trump administration, saying she supports issues like LGBTQ rights. However, she functions as yet another spectacle who diverts attention from the actions that President Trump takes to restrict the rights of vulnerable groups and attack the media.
If Ivanka Trump did care about migrant children separated from their parents, she could do more than call it a "low point" -- she could take action as a senior adviser to her father by publicly calling on him, or using her influence, to get him to uphold international law.
In June the United Nations told the US that taking migrant children from their parents is illegal. However, Ivanka Trump has done nothing to show her interest in upholding the law, and in fact, she continues to reiterate her father's talking points on the issue.
For example, Ivanka Trump, when discussing how much she cared about immigrant children separated from their parents said, "we are a country of laws." She then used her immigrant mother as an example of legal immigration. Her father also often talks about "following laws" in relation to the current family separation situation to reinforce the idea that it's the law to take children from their parents, including babies who are

[url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/ivanka-trump-immigration-family-separation/index.html]We autistics are not supposed to have social skills but these critics do not understand a basic one. If you constantly say a person is wrong or is doing things for malicoius intent your chance of influencing a person is a lot less then if you praise them when they do something you agree with.

That woman looks and sounds more like a Barbie doll every time I see her.

I was quite disappointed to hear her voice in the interview. Barbie voice for sure.

Melania Trump praised LeBron James for his charity work less than a day after her husband attacked the NBA superstar's intellect in a tweet Friday night.

The first lady's spokeswoman on Saturday said Trump is supportive of James' work with children.
"It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today," Stephanie Grisham said in a statement to CNN. "As you know, Mrs. Trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well-being, healthy living, and the importance of responsible online behavior with her Be Best initiative."

Grisham's statement comes just hours after President Donald Trump posted a scathing tweet questioning James' intellectual capacity. The President appeared to be responding to an interview James gave to CNN's Don Lemon, which aired Friday night, in which the NBA superstar said he wouldn't sit down across from the President if he were given the opportunity.

I also wasn't very impressed by the interview. She looks and sounds like she has Barbie Brain.