Published 18:17 IST, October 21st 2020
Ivanka receives backlash for 'ignorant' comment on father, husband dancing amid pandemic
Donald Trump's daughter and his senior adviser, Ivanka Trump has been receiving backlash on Twitter for "tone deaf" comment on severity of COVID-19 pandemic.
US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser to POTUS, Ivanka Trump has been receiving backlash on Twitter for "tone deaf" comment on the severity of COVID-19 pandemic and talking about how her husband Jared Kushner did not join the POTUS to dance on YMCA. Since resuming his campaign rallies after COVID-19 diagnosis, Donald Trump has been showing off his dancing skills in various states. Recently, in Florida rally, the US President broke into a brief dance on The Village’s iconic song.
While the netizens were already divided over him happily performing in front of a maskless audience with no or less social distancing, soon another video emerged on social media that showed how Donald approach Jared for dance but the latter refused. This video was reported by Ivanka calling it a ‘party foul’ along with laughing emojis. She has already promoted her father’s videos on Twitter and has reiterated that she ‘loves it’ but internet users criticised the senior adviser to POTUS for ignoring the “deaths of hundreds and thousands” due to novel coronavirus infections.
‘Dancing on the grave’
From saying Donald Trump was dancing “on the grave” of lakhs of people who died from COVID-19 to posting the current count of cases in the United States, majority of the internet users were seen unimpressed by Ivanka stance on her father dancing at the campaign rally. One of the Twitter users even said that one in five COVID-19 cases in the world has been from the US and “not a single Republican spoke” about the severity of the pandemic. However, there were still a few Trump supporters who commented about Kushner and US President.
The Republican President is competing with Democratic rival Joe Biden to acquire US presidency in nearly two weeks. Trump tested positive for COVID-19 just days after he mocked Biden for wearing facemasks. Then, he got hospitalised at Walter Reed Medical Centre and made a grand return to the White House in four days after the treatment that included oxygen supplement and antibody cocktail cure for COVID-19. However, in his public addresses, Trump has not only said that he is 'immune' but also that he learnt 'a lot about COVID-19' by going to the "real school".
Updated 18:16 IST, October 21st 2020