Evidently, those behind the anti-Trump Republican group known as The Lincoln Project are among the Americans who have had enough of the Trump family’s utter nonsense. In a new video ad — which was viewed almost half a million times on Twitter alone in about an hour — The Lincoln Project memorably mocked Ivanka Trump (the president’s daughter and adviser) for a staggeringly tone-deaf ad campaign that she helped roll out recently. In the ad campaign, which was the work of a White House panel on employment that she’s involved with, Americans are admonished to “find something new.”
In a week that has seen her hawk beans on social media, and unveil a jobs assistance program amid the pandemic with the moniker "Find Something New," Ivanka Trump once again finds herself in the middle of a heap of criticism. | Analysis by Kate Bennett https://t.co/kH1cTGCg3F
— CNN (@CNN) July 17, 2020
That’s a staggeringly ignorant piece of advice — it’s as if Ivanka and the rest of those behind the ad think that the problem is a lack of resolve to “find something new” on the part of Americans who are struggling. About 140,000 Americans have died due to the Coronavirus, and numbers are quickly rising each and every day. Tens of millions of Americans have filed for unemployment in recent weeks and months as Trump’s complete lack of an effective Coronavirus response has wrecked the economy. And this is the best that Ivanka could come up with.
"Ivanka has never had to find a job in her life. After graduating, she worked for her father. Then she set up a paternally-funded fashion line. Finally, she landed a job as senior White House advisor." Me on First Daughter's "find something new" job advice https://t.co/oEQJjL1tyu
— Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) July 16, 2020
In the new Lincoln Project ad, a narrator mockingly says:
‘With 135,000 Americans dead, and our economy on the edge of a new Great Depression, Ivanka Trump has some advice: find something new! Oh, of course! Why didn’t we think of that? It’s so simple! How about jewelry design? Have Daddy loan you a few million to get started. Or fashion — once you get millions in Chinese trademarks: cha-ching. You can even get a job in the White House. Just ask Daddy! The important thing is to find something new. I mean, who cares if you’re about to be evicted, or lose your health care, or can’t make ends meet. Find something new! Can’t feed your kids? Let them eat cake.’
Mehdi Hasan on Ivanka Trump: “She works in the White House today because her dad hired her for a job she is manifestly unqualified for. This is a woman whose husband and father’s catastrophic mishandling of this virus is the reason the economy is so bad.”https://t.co/nbNmHSKUtC
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2020
Memorably, the narrator concludes by commenting:
‘Ivanka is right about one thing. This November, we will find something new, and it won’t be her Daddy.’
Check out the ad below:
The billionaire's daughter is telling unemployed Americans to "find something new."
Thanks for the advice, Ivanka. pic.twitter.com/zphGmOJOgQ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 17, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below: