Dear Commons Community,

This was a bad week for President Trump starting in Helsinki with a disastrous meeting with Russian President Putin and ending with the revelation that his former attorney, Michael Cohen,  taped some of their telephone conversations including one involving a payment to a former girlfriend.   However, on Thursday I thought with the announcement of a new workforce development initiative that there might be a positive blip for the President but it wasn’t to be.  He made the decision to have his daughter, Ivanka Trump be the point person for this new initiative. 

In response, the Democratic Party issued a scathing takedown of Ivanka Trump for gushing about the creation of American jobs while her own products are made exclusively overseas.

“While Ivanka Trump is busy writing op-eds calling on American companies to ‘create more jobs’ … workers in countries like Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India are busy, too — working in conditions below industry standards to manufacture clothing and shoes for the first daughter’s namesake brand,” said the statement issued Thursday by the Democratic National Committee.

The DNC statement, titled “Ivanka Trump Is A Hypocrite,” attacked the first daughter’s “faux feminism” and the reportedly poor working conditions and low wages at her overseas factories, which employ mostly women.

I hope the Trumps have a good weekend on the golf course.

Tony