A makeup-free Ivanka Trump has broadcast a video of hope from her home office during the coronavirus lockdown.
The daughter of the US president shared the video on her social media, saying that 'in these toughest of times America shows her spirit and strength'.
Referring to the decision of the coronavirus task force and president to extend the guidance on social distancing till April 30, she said that it will pose enormous challenges for us individually and collectively.
In the makeup-free video she says: 'For those lucky enough to be able to stay at home please, please do. Everyone of us plays a roll in slowing the spread. Social distancing saves lives.
In an interview with with Yahoo Finance, Ivanka Trump reported that in addition to doing her extremely ambiguous job from home, she’s been reading Greek epics and learning new instruments, a self-improvement regimen she assumes virtually all parents across the country are engaging in too. Taking the pandemic-inspired opportunity to “expand her mind,” the first daughter and limited-edition Marie Antoinette Barbie said she’s been using her newfound free time taking a course “in Greek and Roman mythology, [which means] rereading The Odyssey,” and “learn[ing] to play the guitar.” And not like one of you undisciplined slobs who ordered a ukulele off of Amazon and never took it out of the box—no, she’s actually putting serious time and effort into this. “Now I’m really working on it,” she told Yahoo’s Sibile Marcellus, “as I sit with my kids when they are sleeping or napping. That’s what I’m doing.” She added that she assumes her experience is similar to “pretty much every parent around the country.”
Elsewhere in Ivanka’s Tips for Life: COVID-19 Edition, the first daughter, whose net worth is roughly $375 million, added that she’s heard from “so many people” about how you can help a small business by “prepaying for a service that they know they’re going to avail themselves of sometime in the next six to 12 months” and thus threw a little money at her “local florist,” knowing that when this is all over she’ll undoubtedly get back to her weekly dinner parties that require individual arrangements in front of each place setting and God help the person who thinks they can bring freesias into her house and get away with it.
Weirdly, Ivanka’s interview didn’t go over, like, exceptionally well, with social media wondering aloud just WTF is wrong with her. “Ivanka (she’s just like us!!) plans on rereading The Odyssey and learning about mythology during the quarantine,” one person tweeted. “I actually had to watch the interview to make sure someone could could be so absolutely tone-deaf.”
Anyway, stay tuned for next week when Princess Purses gets her YouTube page up and running and starts offering tutorials re: how to maintain your Botox and fillers when your go-to plastic surgeon insists he can’t make house calls. Later in the month: How to broach the subject of having your nanny learn Russian since she doesn‘t have much else to do. Bonus content: How to ask your housekeeper to sleep in the backyard without making it awkward!
At home with her children like millions of others around the globe practicing social distancing in trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, she saw the viral video of homebound Italians singing from their apartment balconies to bring a bit of joy to their neighborhoods.
“It made me want to contribute by amplifying acts of compassion and connectivity while encouraging healthy physical distance,” she told us. Thus, her #TogetherApart campaign began, bringing “all of those ideas and unifying messages to one place to share with the digital world.”
It started in mid-March with a few posts, such as this one on Instagram: “Share your family friendly ideas below with #TogetherApart! We’re in this together! #SocialDistancingWorks.”
And almost instantly, it went global, with thousands using #TogetherApart, including megastars such as Madonna, Kim Kardashian, football’s Herschel Walker, chef Jose Andres, baseball’s Mariano Rivera, and the Boston Celtics’s Marcus Smart, as well as several government officials and Kimberly Guilfoyle, brother Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will serve as members of a second coronavirus task force focused on reopening the economy, according to a new report.
The Council to Reopen America, first announced by President Trump last week, will focus on getting Americans back to work amid the pandemic and is a smaller alternative to the coronavirus task force headed by Vice President Mike Pence, he said.
New chief of staff Mark Meadows will lead the council while White House senior advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will also serve as members, Fox reported on Monday.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have also been tapped, according to the report.
It’s unclear if the list of names is accurate or final, with Trump not expected to announce the council’s membership until Tuesday.
“We’re going to have the great business leaders, great doctors. We’re going to have a great group of people,” Trump told reporters at the White House coronavirus task force briefing on Friday.
“I want to get the country open as soon as possible. This country was meant to be open and vibrant and great, not where people are staying in,” he said.
Ivanka Trump traveled to New Jersey to celebrate the first night of Passover, ignoring her own advice that anyone who can stay home should stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reported.
The White House had no immediate comment on the first daughter’s movements, which flew in the face of federal recommendations against discretionary travel and a Washington, D.C., order that all residents stay at home except for essential activities.
The Times reported that Ivanka was joined by her husband, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, and their three children for the trip to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey. Kushner then returned to D.C., while Ivanka has remained at Bedminster.