Ivanka’s Power Trip

Ivanka Trump touched down in Berlin Tuesday armed with an op-ed written by herself and World Bank president Jim Yong Kim in today’s Financial Times arguing “investment in women unleashes global economic gains.” The first daughter and presidential adviser was in the German capital to further address the empowerment of women at the Women20 Summit. Talking about “Scaling Up Women’s Entrepreneurship,” she joined a panel of big-time “influencers” the likes of whom included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, IMF chief Christine Lagarde, Canadian minister of foreign affairs Chrystia Freeland, Bank of America vice chairman Anne Finucane, BRCK’s Juliana Rotich and Trumpf president and chairwoman Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller. The ensuing 90 minutes of talk weren’t only smart, informed and thoughtful, but often personal and funny, the chancellor included. Dressed in a long, floral wrap dress in a black, gray and white print, Trump was by no means the most “femme” of the lot, Queen Máxima showing more leg in a white dress splashed with bright blooms. But when asked who considered themselves a feminist, Trump’s hand was one of the first to shoot up. Merkel and Queen Máxima were more reluctant, but when the queen later commented that “if wanting women to

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