Former President Donald Trump recently claimed that when during his Presidential run, he wanted to appoint his daughter, Ivanka, as Trump America’s ambassador to the UN but she opted to instead to work on job creation and hired “millions of people” via The Guardian.
It has been noted that the Republican nominee for president in 2024 made the bizarre comments during a “fireside chat” on Friday night in Washington at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has led efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ identity and structural racism out of classrooms.
In a long, zigzagging, and at times incoherent conversation, Trump has bounced between topics including his parents’ marriage, Scotland, his reality TV show The Apprentice, Elon Musk (“a super genius guy”), his debates against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and his upcoming contest with rival Kamala Harris, whom he described as a “Marxist” and “defective person”.
The 78-year-old talked about the career of his daughter Ivanka, who was a senior adviser in the first Trump administration but has been largely absent from the campaign trail this time. She was “making so much money” from her fashion brand, he claimed, but then gave it up to join him in politics.
Trump recalled: “I said, you would be a great ambassador to the United Nations, United Nations secretary – there’d be nobody to compete with her. She may be my daughter but nobody could have competed with her, with her rat-rat-rat you know she’s got.
“She said, daddy, I don’t want to do that, I just want to help people get jobs. She would go around – not a glamorous job – but would go around to see Wal-Mart, to see Exxon, to see all these big companies to hire people and she had hired, like, millions of people during the course of her stay.”
The co-founder of Moms for Liberty, Tiffany Justice, sitting on stage with Trump, did not challenge his extraordinary suggestions that Ivanka had the experience to serve at the UN or that she was responsible for hiring millions of people.
Justice did repeatedly press an anti-trans agenda. Trump argued that transgender women should not be allowed to play in women’s sports and said access to gender-affirming health care should be restricted. He reiterated a false rightwing talking point that Olympic women’s boxing champion Imane Khelif is trans; Khelif was assigned female at birth.
