Ivanka Trump’s new book release is going swimmingly. In her Women Who Work self-help book, Ivanka Trump shares anecdotes of how to balance your work life with your being-a-woman life. Unfortunately, Ivanka Trump references a ton of impressive women in her book who want nothing more than to have their names removed from any connection to the Trump family dung heap of a crest. Primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall and Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani both responded with cutting criticism of the rich kid’s rich kid. Of course, one way to get around such criticism is to quote people who have passed on and therefore can no longer voice their distaste of Ivanka Trump and her blather. Annalisa Quinn reviewed Ivanka’s Women Who Work for NPR and one of the standouts from her review is this amazing bit of tone-deaf dunderheadedness.
Trump's lack of awareness, plus a habit of skimming from her sources, often results in spectacularly misapplied quotations — like one from Toni Morrison's Beloved about the brutal psychological scars of slavery. "Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another," is positioned in cute faux-handwritten capitals (and tagged #itwisewords) before a chapter on "working smarter." In it, she asks: "Are you a slave to your time or the master of it? Despite your best intentions, it's easy to be reactive and get caught up in returning calls, attending meetings, answering e-mails ..."
I look like Sam Waterson making a closing argument in Law and Order I’m shaking my head so much right now.