While Ivanka is dishing out weird centerpiece suggestions for the denizens of her family’s latest grift; i.e., the United States, 130 kids a day are dying in Yemen in the U.S./Trump backed war there led by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition.
The war is really a proxy fight between Saudi Arabia Sunnis and Iran Shias that is taking place in the poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen. The U.S., that is King Trump and prince Jared, backs the Sunnis because Shia Iran is bad bad bad.
While this political and religious telenovela is playing out, a famine of biblical proportions is imminent. Tens of thousands of women and children are expected to die as the Saudi family has naval, air, and land blockaded food and medical aid from arriving in vital Yemeni ports. Also, cholera is infecting 5000 Yemenis a day because the water infrastructure has been smithereened by Saudi planes, logistics supplied thank you by the U.S. military.
Unfortunately for the Yemenis, they are the wrong everything for any attention by the world or the tweeting and golfing machine who is our president. They are the wrong religion doubly. First they’re not evangelical Christians. Second they are the wrong type of Muslims; i.e., Shias of an Iranian bent. Also they are the wrong color—not white enough. Also they are the poorest of the poor.
A fatal combo—wrong religion, wrong color, wrong social economic class--for getting any attention from family Trump. They will be left to suffer as the poor always suffer. Duh, Puerto Rico. You’d think Ivanka would be all over this, standing up for children and families and all that, but she is busy busy now doing something strange with abalone shells and tinsel.