The US president’s daughter blamed ‘cancel culture’ last week when her speech to a university was scrapped. In truth, she has been given a free pass for far too long
Poor Ivanka Trump. The president’s daughter has spent the past few years toiling away in a mysterious governmental role that nobody asked (or elected) her to take on – and yet she is criminally underappreciated by the underlings she serves.
On Friday, the heiress angrily tweeted that she was the victim of “cancel culture”, after a university in Kansas scrapped a virtual commencement speech she had prepared for graduating students. The students had not been thrilled about the choice of speaker, given Donald Trump’s widely criticised response to protests against police brutality and her involvement last Monday in that response: after demonstrators had been dispersed with tear gas, the first daughter pulled out a bible from her £1,200 Max Mara handbag so that her father could pose with it for a photo op by a church.
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