Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton said she has no interest in rekindling her friendship with GOP counterpart Ivanka Trump because she sees the White House adviser as “more than complicit” in her father’s “cruelty and incompetence.”
The 40-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used to be good friends with Ivanka Trump.
In 2015, they were seen embracing at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. And in 2015, Clinton praised Ivanka Trump’s temperament and said it reminds her of her father’s spirit.
“She’s always aware of everyone around her and ensuring that everyone is enjoying the moment,” Clinton said at the time.
“It’s an awareness that in some ways reminds me of my dad, and his ability to increase the joy of the room,” she continued. “There’s nothing skin-deep about Ivanka.”
But Clinton said she hasn’t spoken to her since the 2016 election.
“I’ve not spoken to her since 2016, and I have no interest in being friends with someone who’s not only complicit, but actively taking part in this administration’s, like, everyday collision of cruelty and incompetence,” she told Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” last week.
“It’s just really hard when there’s someone who’s actively embracing their candidate, whether it’s their father or not, who’s trafficking in racism, and sexism, and anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, and homophobia, and transphobia, and conspiracy theories, and lies and is so fundamentally corrupt,” Clinton continued.
Contrary to the unsubstantiated claims, Trump’s White House has been a vocal proponent of many of the minority groups mentioned and a particularly strong supporter of the Jewish state of Israel.
Trump has been among those sharply criticizing left-wing anti-Semites such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
Ivanka’s husband, White House adviser Jared Kushner, is Jewish, as is Chelsea’s husband, Marc Mezvinsky.
Clinton added that she doesn’t think Ivanka Trump and her father, President Donald Trump, are “the same by any standard.”
However, Ivanka is still “more than complicit as anyone who’s worked for him for so long,” she added. “And I don’t want to be friends with someone like that.”
She continued to go after the president when asked what her take-away was from the first presidential debate between President Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
“Donald Trump is still a racist, incompetent, cruel, miserable ghoul of a human being,” Clinton said.
