Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Donald Trump over the weekend for bringing daughter Ivanka Trump to the G20 summit, noting that the move “hurts our diplomatic standing.”
“It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Saturday following this year’s summit in Japan. “It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on.”
She added that what the country needed was for President Trump to work the G20, saying that “bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s comments came after the office of the French president released a video showing Ivanka Trump joining a discussion with French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Theresa May and International Monetary Fund Chairwoman Christine Lagarde.
Democratic Representative Ted Lieu said in a tweet Sunday that he “would like to hear Ivanka Trump’s explanation about this video,” The Hill reports. “Oh wait, Senior White House Advisor @IvankaTrump blocked me. Can you forward the below video to her and ask for her response? Thanks. P.S. Can you also ask her why Jared Kushner still has a security clearance?”
Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism was immediately met with backlash from conservative commentator Piers Morgan, who said “could be worse… Ivanka could have been a bar-tender 18 months ago.”
The freshman representative did not hesitate to hit back, stressing that “that would make government better – not worse.”
“Imagine if more people in power spent years of their lives actually working for a living. We’d probably have healthcare and living wages by now,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.
The President’s daughter and White House adviser joined him last week on his trip to the summit in Japan, where she addressed a forum called the Special Event on Women’s Empowerment on efforts to elevate women in the workforce.
“Every nation, including the United States, can — and should — do more,” Ivanka Trump said before calling for female economic empowerment to be placed “at the very heart of the G-20 agenda.”
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