Co-hosts of “The View” argued that White House adviser Ivanka Trump acted unethically and inappropriately by posting a photo of herself with a can of Goya Foods.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked, “Isn’t this, like a violation, an ethical violation, Sunny?”
“Yes. It is a violation of federal ethics, just plain, plain and simple. Right?” co-host Sunny Hostin replied.
The President also posted a photo of himself with Goya products on his desk in the Oval Office.
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Hostin added: “It is surprising that she, as an adviser to the president, is a position that she really should not occupy because she is the daughter of the president and is not qualified to occupy that position, which she does not know better.
He added that the first daughter was “so out of step” with the country and did not live up to people’s expectations that it would help “normalize” the Trump White House.
“She is a violator of rules, a violator of ethical rules,” Hostin said.
Co-host Meghan McCain called the photo “creepy.” “The image of Ivanka Trump holding it up is creepy, and I think it was a big flaw on her part because, first of all, who cooks Mexican food or Hispanic food or opens beans in a completely white outfit? Everyone, why is she alike to the movie ‘Get Out’? “McCain asked, referring to a movie that addresses the issue of racism.
Along with a photo of her with a can of Goya black beans, Ivanka Trump tweeted, “If it’s Goya, it has to be good.” The tweet came as an apparent sign of solidarity with the company after it faced a boycott over its CEO’s decision to express support for the president.
The first daughter’s tweet received a backlash online, including from Walter Shaub, Jr., who previously served as director of the U.S. Government Ethics Office.
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“Ivanka Trump’s publications violated an ethical executive branch regulation that prohibited employees from misusing their official positions to endorse commercial products,” he wrote in The Washington Post. “As a pictorial representation of the Trump administration’s war on government ethics, both photos are perfectly clear. They scream ‘the rules don’t apply to us,’ a core message from the Trump administration from the start.”
Trump defended himself and said Wednesday that he has “every right” to publicly express his support. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows also told reporters who accompanied the president to Atlanta on Wednesday that he doubted Ivanka Trump would have any repercussions.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
