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Ivanka Ranked Just Behind Queen Elizabeth on List of World’s Most Powerful Women — And Twitter Is Furious
Ivanka Trump made Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2018 list at number 24, just one spot behind Queen Elizabeth II. First lady Melania Trump, however, was nowhere to be found in annual ranking.
The Forbes list further snubbed Melania Trump in its description of her husband’s daughter.
“The first daughter and advisor to President Trump has become the de facto First Lady as her step-mother Melania prefers to avoid the limelight,” Forbes wrote.
“Famously sitting in for her father at last summer’s G2 summit, in 2018 she shuttered her fashion business to focus on a public policy career,” Forbes continued. The publication states that “it’s unclear how impactful her role is,” but that Ivanka Trump is focusing on paid family leave, promoting women in science, creating a workforce apprenticeship program and tackling human trafficking.
“On the heels of claiming she didn’t know couldn’t use personal email for official business, she’s going to G2 2018 to discuss the future of work,” Forbes states.
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While Ivanka Trump topped Melania Trump for the second year in a row, she slipped five spots from last year. The first daughter deubted on Forbes’ list last year at number 19. The first lady did not make the cut last year either.
Forbes’ explanation for Ivanka Trump’s ranking this year was almost identical to last year’s: “Ivanka has become the de facto first lady as her step-mother Melania has opted to stay mostly out of the limelight.”
Ivanka Trump has been criticized as much as she has been praised for her work in the White House, which she entered with no prior government experience. The first daughter was heavily scrutinized for staying silent on her father President Donald Trump’s immigration policy that led to migrant family separations at the border. When Ivanka Trump attended the Summit of the America conference in Lima, Peru, in April that her father did not end up attending, she was accused on Twitter of acting like the U.S. secretary of state.
Twitter had some questions:
Whoever that prepared this list needs a reality check. Only two black women out of 100. Please tell me what Ivanka has done to be on the list? Forbes trying to tell us no powerful woman exist in Africa currently? Ory Okolloh, Folorunsho Alakija, Okonjo Iweala?#Racism https://t.co/VZuYdSNGPn
— Mazi Pita® ???????????????? (@Mazipita) December 5, 2018
Also.. I just want to know how much @IvankaTrump paid for that spot.. Let’s face it.. she doesn’t even know what she’s doing.. She just shows up and listens.. well she matters well enjoy it.. Because soon she will be the most power woman behind bars.. #PowerfulWomen pic.twitter.com/uokl19rNKg
— DJ Baker (@justDooDirty) December 5, 2018
Ivanka at #24, even though it states how impactful her role is isn’t clear? Then how exactly is she powerful?
— Gayme Lannister (@glamister) December 5, 2018
Why is Ivanka #24? Just WTF does she even do? You have her and not Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. She only negotiated 3 major trade deals for Canada:TPP, CETA, NAFTA 2.0. What did Ivanka do again?? #BeBest Forbes. ????
— Under the Radar (@retail_recruit) December 5, 2018
Ivanka Trump doesn't belong. What has she done? What kind of influence does she possess? ZERO.
— World Citizen (@HannieOkello) December 5, 2018
I can name 100 women who deserved to be on this list instead of Ivanka.
— Lexi Lue (@Lexi_Lue) December 5, 2018
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