Discussion: State Department Belatedly Deletes Tweet Promoting Ivanka Trump's Book

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It’s very tough. She can find some inspiration from the words of Mandela or Morrison though. You can’t keep a free woman down.

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Grifters gotta grift.

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These “mis-steps” don’t just happen. How likely would it be for any of us to have any of our work just automatically picked top by the State Department for highlighting some issue? Who specifically is doing this and why aren’t their internal controls? Guilty people need to be exposed and fired.

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O, this calls for a HEARING, we want to know why she is using government accts for her personal business

Is she passing on ‘top secret’ information

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The market research indicates that for books maximum sales impact is achieved in the first 24 hours, particularly if the author is a genetically illiterate entirely self-centered plastic surgery product with bleach blonde hair and no redeeming human qualities. Research is reliable because of the large sample size.

Edit: OK, OK people. I admit bleach blonde hair IS a human quality.

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We could all learn something from Ivanka’s struggle. Self-made woman, no doubt.

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Well, given all the time she has spent skiing, I’m pretty sure she’s not working. Oh, except to promote the book by repeatedly saying she’s not promoting it.

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Trump’s whole shtick is just one giant ad for his and his family’s golf club and other businesses. The mere mention of Mar-a-Lago improves its brand and increases its membership. He calls Putin, Erdogan and Duterte not for any legitimate foreign policy reason but to promote his business properties or potential businesses or gain business advantage in those countries. He has nothing to offer the American people by way of knowledge or experience.

He is the ultimate opposite of JFK’s famous inaugural speech quote “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”…except he is not just some guy asking what the nation can do for him, he is in a position of unparalleled griftness.

Now we know why he wanted to be president.

(Posted elsewhere, but more appropriate here)

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Zero.
Feature, not bug.
Those responsible have already been promoted.

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“Complicit”

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That, and a billion dollar “loan” from Daddy. Gotta account for inflation…

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Somehow, I don’t think the State Department “Office of Global Women’s Issues” Twitterfeed is exactly prime marketing territory for the Trumpies…

Now the HHS “Barefoot, Pregnant & Lovin’ It” one would have been a more target-rich environment…

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Hey Jason Chaffetz here something your racist *** need to investigate. Instead messing with a private citizen (black guy) which you had no problem with any other previous president: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chaffetz-limit-pension-obama

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I’m reminded of the South Park episode about Jared having aides…

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Agreed with everything about 1000% and if you posted it every day, which could happen every day because of the family’s grift, it wouldn’t be too many times.

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Department of State, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc.

Away from good governing we be drifting
Playing to our strength of maximum grifting

Trump ‘Drained the Swamp’ - and put the swamp’s contents in the White House.

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“ethically questionable moves”?

And the State Department and the Office of Government Ethics once again rush to close the barn door after the horse has bolted.

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Apparently, some State Dept. employees are really trying hard to keep their jobs. Just image what EPA and Dept. of Education staffers will try!

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