White House first daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump introduced her father as “the president of the nations” during her Thursday night speech at the Republican National Convention, and delivered her remarks from the White House’s South Lawn.
‘I admit that my father’s communication style is not to everyone’s taste. And I know his tweets can feel a little unfiltered, ‘she said for a moment. ‘But the results speak for themselves.’
She spoke of the admiration she had seen from working Americans for her father, ‘to see these stoic machinists and steelworkers come to him with tears in their eyes and thank him for being the only person willing is to go to the mat for them. ‘
Ivanka Trump delivered the speech directly to her father at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night
Ivanka Trump’s speech served as an introduction for her father and she sought to soften his image by giving details about his reaction to Americans dying of COVID-19
Ivanka Trump can be seen on giant screens placed around the South Las in the White House Thursday night, where President Donald Trump accepted nomination
Ivanka Trump talks about how American workers approached her father with ‘tears in her eyes’ for the work he did for her
She called that a ‘new and profound experience for him, and for me’ despite Trump ‘building workers’ admiring and befriending countless jobs’, a reference to her father’s past of immovable property.
The first daughter, with a black Gabriela Hearst number, began her remarks about her move to Washington in 2017.
“We did not know exactly where we were going, but our children loved it from the beginning,” she said.
‘My son Joseph immediately built Grandpa a Lego replica of the White House,’ she continued. ‘The president still shows it on the mantle in the Oval Office and shows it to world leaders, just so they know he has the biggest grandchildren on earth. ‘
In Washington, Ivanka Trump said, she found that politicians would “silence their beliefs and skip the hard fights” in order to survive.
“I could not believe that so many politicians actually prefer to complain about a problem, instead of solving it,” she said. ‘I was shocked to see that people left big challenges behind, but they can blame the other side and campaign on the same issue in the next election. ‘
“But Donald Trump did not come to Washington to win praise from the belt elites,” she said.
Her father’s unpopularity among certain groups became a theme of her speech.
“For the first time in a long time, we have a president who has proclaimed the hypocrisy of Washington – and they hate him for it,” she said.
‘Father, people attack you because you are unconventional, but I love you because you are real, and I respect you for being effective,’ she added.
She also took time to soften her father’s image, playing travel guide for the public at key points of his administration.
Ivanka Trump described him as president ‘who fights for you from morning till midnight, when the cameras are off, the microphones are off, and the decisions really count.’
She spoke of standing by his side when he went to Dover Air Force Base to receive the remains of a fallen soldier.
Ivanka Trump (center left), along with Hope Hicks (right), will be seen walking the South Lawn on Thursday night before giving her address to the Republican National Convention
“And every time, it stole his decision to finally stop the endless foreign wars,” she said.
She talked about seeing her father’s more personal reaction to death by COVID-19.
“I have been to my father and seen the pain in his eyes when he receives updates on the lives stolen by this plague,” she said. ‘I’ve seen him make some of the toughest decisions of his life. ‘
She said, among you, closes the American border for Europeans.
Ivanka Trump also raised some of her pet projects, including the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, which she and the president promoted on their Monday trip to North Carolina, where the RNC would be held.
Ivanka Trump’s speech was the curtain for her father on the lawn of the White House, where 1,500 people were gathered in a not-so-socially distant way. Many did not wear masks.
Air horns of protesters outside the gates of the White House could be heard during the address of Ivanka Trump.
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