Wall Street Journal Slams Ivanka Trump For…Wearing Her Own Clothes

Brittany M. Hughes | December 27, 2017
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In a scathing new critique rivaled only by the media’s most previous attack on the First Family (published approximately 52 seconds prior), the Wall Street Journal ripped into First Daughter Ivanka Trump for…wearing her own clothes.

The news outlet boldly revealed that the fashion designer-turned-president’s daughter has had the audacity to wear not one, not two, but a stunning 46 pieces from her own clothing line during official appearances as one of Donald Trump’s presidential advisors.

Stop. The. Presses. From the article:

The Wall Street Journal reviewed Ms. Trump’s outfits in her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram postings about official appearances between March 29, when she became a White House adviser, and the end of October. Star Style, a celebrity-fashion website, identified the products. The analysis showed that Ivanka Trump dresses, shoes, bags or jewelry appeared in 46 of the 68 outfits reviewed, or 68%.

The discount-pearl-clutching WSJ complains Ivanka’s worn her dresses on stages, during appearances on Fox News and – gasp! – even her own Instagram photos.

“Every time she steps out sporting Ivanka Trump merchandise, Ms. Trump—wittingly or not—is a walking billboard for her brand, and an example of the conflicts that arise when government employees have both public and private professional interests,” the outlet chides. (It's unclear from the WSJ's report exactly when Ivanka Trump held a gun to consumers' heads and forced them to purchase her latest pumps against their own free will, of course, but that's neither here nor there.)

First of all, it’s worth questioning what you’d have to have done as a reporter to earn your editor’s ire such that he’d relegate you to some dusty back corner of the Wall Street Journal newsroom poring over every item of clothing or jewelry the president’s daughter has worn over the last year. Perhaps I’m off base here, but I’m assuming the task of spending hours googling Ivanka Trump’s choice of purses wasn’t handed to the guy voted “Most Likely to Win a Pulitzer Prize” at last year’s office party.

But perhaps even more sad than the career trajectory of the poor sap who had to dig through presidential fashion trends is the fact that once again, a formerly respectable media outlet such as the Wall Street Journal is publishing such pointless drivel in the first place. After all, it’s not like we’re mounting toward a nuclear showdown with North Korea or anything.

This is also the same media, mind you, that once praised Michelle Obama for wearing a $12,000 dress that cost more than the median global household income.

At this point, the Trumps, love them or hate them, simply cannot win for losing. If Ivanka Trump dares to wear clothes from her own clothing line, she’s a shameless opportunist. Had she forgone wearing her own clothes and instead paraded about in gazillion-dollar designer pieces from high-end designers from Italy, the media would have blasted her for being a diva that’s ridiculously out of touch with the average Target sweater-clad American. If she’d worn something from the latest Kohl’s catalogue, she’d be slammed as frumpy, or accused of brazenly pandering to the “little guy.”

It’s the same media that rips Trump up one side and down the other regardless of whether he’s throwing $750-a-plate dinners at Mar-a-lago or scarfing down a value meal at Mickey D’s. His daughter can’t win, and neither can he.

Except that wait – he already did. And that’s the media’s real problem, isn’t it?

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