Ivanka Trump lauds Saudi, UAE on women's rights reforms

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Ivanka Trump lauded a handful of Mideast countries, including close U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for embarking on “significant reforms” to advance women's rights.

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, delivers a keynote address at Global Women's Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020.

Her comments throughout the speech drew applause, particularly when she praised Saudi Arabia. Despite reforms there, women’s rights activists and other campaigners are imprisoned and facing trial on vague charges related to national security. Once the owner of an eponymous fashion line, Ivanka Trump has wielded her proximity to the president to promote policies affecting women and deliver speeches around the world about women's economic empowerment. She meets with world leaders as a key White House official. Some of her efforts even have some bipartisan support in Washington, standing in sharp contrast to the level of controversy and political division surrounding her father's presidency.

Trump made no mention, however, of legislative obstacles in the U.S. around paid family leave, which she and the U.S president support. Currently, just a few U.S. states offer paid leave. She said, though, more work needed to be done. She noted that across the region, women on average still have only half the legal rights of men.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia have worked to cultivate close ties with the Trump administration and were early supporters of the Women's Empowerment Fund, a World Bank initiative to help female entrepreneurs that Ivanka Trump strongly backs. During the first trip abroad of her father's presidency to Saudi Arabia, the two Gulf countries pledged $100 million to the fund.

 

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IvankaTrump is no better than daddy/hubby.

ivanka needs to live in the poor parts of America, then she's see how women of all color suffer with poverty.... but she's break a nail and it would be over!!!

about time

She won’t be able to get this accomplished as they are a lot different over there About their women

Well if IvankaTrump thinks Saudi Arabia & Middle East countries aren’t so “reformed”, & “for women’s rights,” maybe she should go live there. She can wear a burka, marry a man she has no say over through an arranged marriage, be forced to bare his kids, walking 4 paces behind...

How hypocritical it is for Ivanka Trump to be promoting “women’s rights” when her father has admitted treating women the way he has.

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If the Trump playing princess thinks SA and UAE have made 'significant reforms' re women's rights, she's more than welcome to move there and live under that system.

As bad as lauding praise on Avennati? Having the bum on your network shows? Your biass is showing ABC.

I dont care what women do there Maddow thinks she is a women We have people that dont know to stand or sit when they pee

Can someone explain these ridiculous outfits that the princess wears

Zero respect for her!

Clueless and complicit.

She's wasting tax payer money going arounf getting media attention and her fashion show . her stepmother loves her fashion shows also on the tax payer tab !

Yeah, I hear tell they're going to let female WWE wrasters wrestle with full body suits.

Pullease, butt kiss Barbie! He let them freaking drive and nothing else! Go home and make out with your dad

Saudi Arabia: where women activists are being tortured for advocating basic human rights.

This is like the 30th time you have posted this! What’s the matter? No one is paying any attention to it?

Great initiatives! We need more of such forums to widen our knowledge of one another’s cultural and traditional values. Mutual respect is a base for global peace and harmony. All the very best IvankaTrump

yeah the saudis have progressed on women's rights, now they're allowed to show ankles and attend gay and heretic beheadings

And once again, her qualification for her job is that someone has video of her Dad getting peed on by hookers.

Ivanka you have no idea.

I'm old enough to remember this👇 Or maybe plastic barbie IvankaTrump is not realDonaldTrump's🤔

Bone head Ivanka must gloss over the bonesaw murder of Khashoggi the bone spurs don’t fall from the trunk of the rotting tree

Trump taught his kids to make money and communicate with others, while others teach their kids that everyone wins even when they don't, and then cry when they don't get their way and throw a fit. The difference between work smart not hard to, cry enough and maybe you'll get it

Asking again please stop covering Irrelevantarbie.

Uhm, just not feeling it.

IvankaTrump

You let women drive ! Good for you! Now buy more military weapons .

Ivanka hedges her bets. As realDonaldTrump's presidency teeters on the brink the first daughter has signed an exclusive deal with the other big man on campus. God

She is so full of shit.

Why is there so much hate towards Ivanka for fighting for women’s rights? Do these people hate Trump that much that they can’t acknowledge a good thing? Wake up people—your hatred has blinded you to the truth.

The ABC journalist who wrote this article must be excited about it!

It's o.k. to murder a journalist as long as you profess to reform women's rights!

Why does she represent us in the world? WTF!!

.IvankaTrump has zero experience/qualifications to be there. No history of consulting with previous govts on foreign or domestic policy and never revered for her expertise. They coddle her to curry favor with daddy. And she's in WH because......

Good lord have Mercy

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IvankaTrump doesn’t know shit about women’s rights because she’s lived a 1% life shielding her from and hardship. Go away! You don’t speak for us!

How about REPORTING about her SWEATSHOPS

Anything Ivanka says about Saudi Arabia is tainted with ethical conflicts IMHO

Grifter kissing the hand of murderers.

Remember She created 17 million job s

Through modernized education cooperation and trade relations.😇

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ABC doesn't report on what Saudi Arabia is doing to the poor people of Yemen *Starving them to death* so you're just as misinformed and negligent as she is.

Oh look MELANIATRUMP It’s the real First Lady IvankaTrump 🤣🤣🤣

Isn't this the same thing the Clinton foundation did?

Crack pot

Having Ivanka trump talk about women’s rights at a MidEast Forum where its members discriminate against women is just a form of ass kissing for trump. Sending this bozo on a government plane to make a speech is a waste of taxpayer money.

Release the Kraken.

Yeh Na

'TOTAL GARBAGE' FROM 'MS. PRETENSE' WHO IS ONLY BOLSTERING HER OWN POCKETBOOKS... &, OF COURSE THOSE OF THE TRUMP FAMILY TOO.

Samantha Bee was correct. Feckless.

Vote. Fucking vote. Get this waste of breath OUT.

IvankaTrump Oh has Saudi Arabia let the women working for freedom and driving privileges out of jail yet? What exactly would thos significant reforms be? Another dishonest, amoral, pandering trump.

Her and her husband have their noses up the Saudis ass alot....

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Grosssss

You should be ashamed of not calling out the duplicity of this outing by Ivanka Trump. Stop legitimizing her.

Her trip, at taxpayer expense, was to line her greedy pockets. Why aren’t you doing your job & reporting on the exorbitant cost to taxpayers & the serious ethical violations? First Daughter is not a thing. Report her illegal acts!

So many bitter jealous feminists commenting here. Ivanka is smart, beautiful and works harder than any of you people. Thank you IvankaTrump for all that you do for women around the world. ❤️🇺🇸

She must need a few patents approved in Saudi Arabia & UAE. WTF does Little Miss Donald Mini-Me Junior know about women's rights or oppression outside her golden bubble? Nothing she hasn't paid someone to teach her. Take your IMPEACHED Daddy & get out of THE PEOPLE'S Governmnt

Fish face doesn’t have 🇺🇸 security clearance.👎🏼

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Disgusting. Zero shame. Making a mockery of oppressed women. She’s a damn fool.

Why do we give this spoiled entitled pos any attention? IvankaTrump No one wants to hear from her, she does not represent the everyday woman.

They’re both such progressive places. She would know!

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Delusional.

Right after the bastards bone saw a few more 🤮

Senior White House Adviser Ivanka Trump, the daughter of U.S. President Donald Trump, arrived in the United Arab Emirates. The U.S. president's daughter is in the UAE ahead of the Global Women's Forum, where she will give a keynote address. (AP)

Narcissistic sociopath runs in the family....

Well, yeah, only yesterday women in Saudia Arabia could drive to sit in the women's section of a restaurant. Ever been to a restaurant with a women's entrance in Saudi Arabia? I have. Sorry, Ivanka, you need to get out more to where real people live.

IvankaTrump little Barbie holds personal business at SaudiArabia as well as POTUS 45 emoluments act is not important in government, bullying is ok with Americans within and outside the White House,abusive presidential power

is she on the same drugs as daddy?

This is sick.

Saudi Arabia why we still support that country? September 11 terrorist attack this is the country where the high hackers came from.

Whatever!

This is a lie.

“Significant reforms” like advancing to the 1800s and letting women drive cars

The Saudis advancing women’s rights ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Kiss my ars..

That's a big deal that a women get accepted by Islam countries 🤣

I see her as the first Female President of America...& not too long from now....she has been introduced at Davos etc...all part of her growing into the job...

Saudi Arabia, really

Now do Afghanistan IvankaTrump

Good luck with that...

She's a disgusting woman and has done nothing to advance women's rights.

WTF?

Good job, Mideast, for embarking on not treating women as property or slaves.

Just another case of LieToJustify.

Not including reporters.

The gifters

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She's such a good person and role model...

they are doing great

Lies run in the trump cult.

She used to run sweatshops

Just a reminder.... you father is a conman.

Great Job 👍

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Are you effing kidding me with this crap?

No word on the women imprisoned and tortured in Saudi Arabia for the audacity to drive?

You mean like not being able to go anywhere without a male relative chaperone. Even shopping for groceries. Not able to get into a taxi without a male relative chaperone. And so on. You know nothing you vapid piece of self inspired shallow empty insult to women everywhere.

Somebody please tell that vacuous woman to have a seat! Ivanka sells shoes and handbags made in China at slave wages so she doesn’t give a isht about women in the Arab world. Does she think her speech will change centuries of male mistreatment of women?

Clueless.

Anchor baby says what

She should lead by example and move there.

“They are great because almost half of their population will soon have basic human rights...sort of”.

Because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is sucha bastion of civil rights for women. I hear they're even letting them drive now without the supervision of a man.

The same countries the Trump crime family gets money from in a consistent basis. But y’all wanna talk about Hunter Biden? GTFOH

PhotoOpBarbie

Ivanka2024

Meanwhile, her husband realDonaldTrump, is a serial sexual predator.

She has her head up her butt! OMG

How much💰 is Princess Ivanka making off of these countries?

Oh geez, how she has deluded herself—like father, like brothers...

Oh right. The Saudis take 13 year old brides.

She's a disgrace

This is bullshit.

Yes. Now they only beat women with a cable in the mall if they get caught uncovered from head to foot.

Anchor Baby Barbie working on a new line of designer Burkas.

She look like a toy! Empty vessel.

Why are you making this news

JFC

They are NOT OUR ALLIES! Your headline is misleading. Also, Eyevanka didn’t do shit except walk around in a long shiny dress doing video and photo ops. Why is she in government?

Why is she even talking?

Barf.....

Jamal Khashoggi

Why is Trump afraid of Bloomberg? What happen

Please stop giving irellevantbarbie media coverage. That is all.

Did someone tell NepotismBarbie about burkas yet?

Sparkle pony trying to make nice to the people that own her, her husband and daddy. TrumpCrimeFamily TrumpCrimeFamily

Liars

She probably thinks Lincoln, Nebraska is in the Arabian Desert!

Significant reforms for WOMEN? Is this serious? Did she really go do this? About women? WTF

No one care what ivanka wants. Men need sandwiches

How much cash did she score!

Try telling that to BoneSaw, he still have woman locked away getting rape

Why even cover this nonsense? Why give her a platform?

The only woman she’s advancing is herself.

Yep. Human rights. Women’s rights. Over there. Hmm 🤨 they are praising that women could smoke for the first time or something on saudi or whatever. Smoking is bad for health. Just saying la

IvankaTrump is as vapid as she is plastic.

Hopefully she becomes the first woman president, if only for the entertainment in the complete psychotic meltdown of the left. 😂

Pay go up in the sweat shops?

What the hell is she trying to portray with all the golden dresses in Saudi Arabia?

Did she run into any bone saws? JusticeForJamal NepotismBarbie unwantedivanka

That is a double joke.

Beware the thief who smiles.

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no less of a 'ho than Melania

She is so full of crap! IvankaTrump realDonaldTrump SenateGOP GOPDictatorParty2020 GOPLies trumpnepotism TrumpCrimeFamily TrumpCrimeFamilyForPrison GOPDictatorParty2020

This is ridiculous. What is she even doing? What is her position? What knowledge of foreign affairs does she bring to be speaking on this?

Hear it from Ivanka is much better

Blah blah blah

What about the women who work in IvankaTrump’s sweatshops? 🤔

As she walked around with her hair covered. She’s ridiculous

Princess ivanka should go for a stroll as a single, middle aged woman in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia killed an American journalist. It seems Ivanka and the Trump family don’t care.

She clearly reads the same books as her husband 😐

Human RIghts Watch hrw has a lot to say about Saudi Arabia. Guessing Ivapid has ignored most of it.

Please stop normalizing her.

For example, Jamal Khashoggi was a man, so it's not just women being killed.

I am here to tell you that I am the smartest woman in America and your Saudi girls will be pleased to hear it, Ivanka read from the prompter

Are we paying for this broad to go to foreign conferences and do photoshoots?

Looks after the woman’s right here first.....

The speech you make when you’re speaking to the family financial lenders!

Even the ones they are torturing and throwing in prison?

Try doing some to stop your Daddy abusive behavior toward women!

More pattens for self enrichment..?

Gag me with a spoon!

It’s a family business

And yet they locking women and men immigrants up but she wanna talk about rights 🤔 she just as dumb as her pops.🙄🙄🙄

GIVE ME A BREAK! WOMEN’S RIGHTS? YET, HER DADDY GRABBED WOMEN BY THE P••SY? FOLLOWING THE MONEY

Hot mess

Cathy, I think we are on the same page.....🙂

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I think she needs to stay there. Our world would be better without her.

Imagine if Michelle Obama or one of Obama’s daughters went to the Middle East & wore a loose hijab. Obama and his family would’ve been called terrorists for years to come. Talk about double standards.

What is her role in our government? What is her position? Why would anyone listen to her?

And...what ofSaudi attack on Twin Towers...Murder of Journalist? Hmmmm

Why? we have more issues in America

THE GANGSTER ENVOY !!!!

See words, say words, make daddy happy!

The best thing Ivanka can do to advance women's rights is move out of the WH.

Liar. Complicit.

Maybe the sheikh should let his own daughter out of jail.

Saudi? The same Saudi Arabia that brutally murdered a US journalist? Is she really this dense? Or is she on the take from the Saudi’s?

More wasted taxpayer money

Ivanka makes me ill, everytime I see her she does not belong there, people that take money from charity I have no use for!

Middle-East Diplomat Barbie comes with heels and canary yellow ensemble, on-sale this week at Walmart

I don’t care, do you?

Hard pass on the unqualified daughter of an unqualified president talking about anything.

Imagine all those new drivers licenses!

What an ugly dress.

Empty barrel making noise.

IvankaTrump DO YOU KNOW THEY CONSIDER WOMEN BENEATH THEM? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THISE COUNTRIES AND HOW LITTLE RIGHTS THE WOMEN HAVE? SO WHAT YIU TELL THEM DOESNT MATTER

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Kremlin Barbie is a grifter.

爸爸总统,女儿、女婿都是幕僚。美粉好像都不关心了。

How much did she receive for that speech. I bet it rivaled the payment for any speech worldwide and all time. Maybe a much needed loan for any myriad of businesses that need finances.

The stupidity of this woman is truly mind boggling.

Awesome!Way to go Ivanka.

Ivanka is positioning herself to become the chosen heir to the Trump Kingdom, and in case Don Jr. thinks its him, forget it Ivanka has always been his favourite!

Good job Ivanka ‼️🇺🇸

TRUMPS= BULLSHIT

And what has IvankaTrump done to advance our rights at home? Does she support the Equal Rights Amendment? Does she support our right to choose birth control? Does she support equal pay? Tired of what she does in countries that don't matter to the US life.

Bullshit..

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She should live there for awhile and report back.

Hmmm is disgraceful to glorify countries like Saudi Arabia,United Arab Emirates etc where no democratic elections has ever taken place and human rights abuses are a daily routine. Is a pity as the quest for money has blurred the minds of western politicians

Lock her up!

ROB News: 'Ivanka Trump pretended to be a feminist today, and in her capacity as president Trump's clueless daughter-wife lauded brutal autocracies that did nothing to advance the cause human rights.' There. I fixed it.

Nobody cares what this grifter has to say about anything. She is irrelevant!

Another corrupt Trump

She means they let women breath on their own, nothing else. We’re talking about two countries that are only a stone’s throw from the year 571 AD.

Are you freaking kidding me? And why hasn’t the US ERA amendment been implemented yet?

Ay yay yay

Yeah we all know Saudi Arabia is known for women's rights

Who cares

What a DF this woman is but she doesn’t live in the real world and never has-no clue.

Unless significant is measurable by common standards why lie about the change. Change is inevitable.

'Saudi women may now have the right to drive — but the Saudi women who fought, protested, and campaigned for that right have been stripped of all of their rights. They are detained, behind bars, incommunicado; the victims of vicious torture and abuse.'

Why are USA taxpayers for Ivanka to play princess? She's merely a Trump.

How is this news? Who cares!

How many times did she change clothes?

So..... what is her title again? And what is she responsible for doing? It almost seems she is doing what a first lady would do.

FLOTUS realDonaldTrump gtconway3d How about reforming your in home bully/husband Donald?

Its Corporate Socialist Barbie

Isn't this the kind of political correctness that had the democrats kicked out?🤔

So

this is offensively un-american; no one elected her or her husband to speak for us

I’d hit.

Ivanka reminds me of one of those weirdos in the Divergent movies.

I love Trump, but Ivanka is just not likeable. I hope she never runs for office. She will get squashed with her constant pandering!

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Who elected Ivanka? Why can’t she just go back to making money off child labor in China?

UAE. Champion of women's rights. Where even a crown princess is tracked by commandos and abducted if she tries to escape.

Well, they haven't assasinated any prominent women, recently. So there's that.

I’m sure there is a punch line here.

Ask the women in Saudi Arabia about their rights. Seriously?

😂 ivanka and her laudiness.

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Let's all ignore her.

What's she talking about hand bags or somethin

Doesn’t she sell shoes?

Ivanka is a national embarrassment. Woman here are not involved in that many schemes like her. Since she’s at BoneSaw’s Saudi did she bring up once about woman being rape behind the jail?

It would be nice if IvankaTrump could use her influence to get some women out of jail.

The original “Pencil Neck”

Someday women in Saudi Arabia will be able to grift as successfully as women in the United States!

Saudi Arabia lauded for women's rights? What planet is she on?

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