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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2017 18:54:52 GMT
It's once again time for "How the Trumps Are Profiting Off the Presidency!" This time, we turn to Ivanka, whose businesses appeared to be taking a hit after numerous retailers stopped stocking her clothing and jewelry lines. However, despite the setback from major retailers, Ivanka's sales soared in February―thanks to Kellyanne Conway's questionably ethical endorsement. On February 9, Donald Trump complained that Nordstrom was treating Ivanka unfairly for dropping her line, claiming poor sales. Which is how business works, something you'd think self-described successful businessman Donald Trump would know. Anyway, Conway defended Ivanka on Fox & Friends, saying of her line "I'm going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody." According to retailer Lyst, sales of Ivanka's line went up 346% from January to February, going from the site's 550th most popular brand to the 11th, The Washington Post reports. Ivanka Trump brand president Abigail Klem said the beginning of February held "the best performing weeks in the history of the brand." Conway's endorsement was seen by many as a violation of ethics, as federal rules specifically prohibit the use of public office for personal gain "for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity." However, given that Ivanka has no official title in the White House, it's murky as to whether those rules apply to her. White House Deputy Counsel Stefan Passantino later said Conway "inadvertently" promoted Ivanka, a reminder that ethics rules only matter if you intend to break them.
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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2017 18:46:01 GMT
When a woman shows a celebrity picture to her plastic surgeon and says, "I want to look like her!" the face glowing on her phone might be Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johansson. And now, say some surgeons, the new star is Ivanka Trump. "In my practice, Ivanka is sort of the new style icon for plastic surgery," says Houston surgeon Franklin Rose, who says he's already performed extensive work on "several" women who wanted to look more like President Trump's elder daughter. So does one of his patients, Jenny Stewart, 37, who last summer underwent more than six hours of surgery by Rose to reshape her nose and augment her breasts. She got liposuction to harvest fat to lift her buttocks, and she got injectable fillers for her face. All of it cost about $30,000, a discount because Stewart agreed to do
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2017 18:50:27 GMT
Saturday Night Live, or SNL, has taken aim at different members of the Trump administration including showing White House strategist Steve Bannon as the Grim Reaper and having press secretary Sean Spicer played by a gum-chewing Melissa McCarthy. In the most recent episode, the show decided to take a dig at President Trump's daughter Ivanka in a spoof of a high-end perfume ad for a product called "Complicit."
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2017 18:48:39 GMT
More Chinese designers have been showing at New York Fashion Week in recent seasons, joining the many Asian American names in the Big Apple scene. Last month, Shanghai-based Taoray Wang, whose clients include Wall Street types, Chinese diplomats and business leaders, attracted special attention – this time by association with the Trump name. Not Donald, but Tiffany, who (despite her father’s sharp anti-China comments) wore a white double-breasted Taoray Wang coat to the president’s inauguration. She has been a fan of Wang’s brand for some time. With Tiffany and her mother Marla Maples, the president’s second wife, sitting front row at Wang’s show and also wearing the brand, the designer was inundated backstage with questions.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2017 18:38:09 GMT
A group of government watchdogs says the White House must give President Trump’s daughter Ivanka an official title or risk conflicts of interest with her business ventures. “[Ivanka Trump’s current role] creates a middle space that does not exist,” officials wrote in a Friday letter to White House counsel Don McGahn, according to The Associated Press. “On the one hand, her position will provide her with the privilege and opportunities for service that attach to being a White House employee,” the collection of two former White House lawyers and three ethics and transparency advocates added. “On the other hand, she remains the owner of a private business who is free from the ethics and conflicts rules that apply to all White House employees.”
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