Ivanka Trump’s Awkward Appearance During Trump-Xi Meeting Draws Attention

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0:30Ben Meiselas:Ivanka Trump getting a rude awakening on the world stage, getting the karma. She deserves the grifter, Ivanka. Let me tell you what went down when Xi Jinping's visit humiliated her, both the state dinner as well as what went down in the White House earlier in the day. Then we'll talk about what happened when the Albanian leader spoke at the United Nations and brought up the Flamingo protest, the massive protest against Jared Kushner and Ivanka, Now in day 120 or day 121, protesting Jared Kushner and Ivanka trying to take over the Saison Islands, protected islands in Albania, and turn it into their Trump and Steen getaway.

1:12Ben Meiselas:Let's break it down and bring out the receipts like we do here at the Midas Touch Network. So Ivanka Trump was at the White House. She was wearing a blue Chinese designer dress for Xi Jinping. She brought her daughter Arabella with her. She coordinated the matching dress with Caroline Levitt. You can see right there. And let me show you what went down when Trump and Xi Jinping walked right past J.D. Vance and Ivanka without even saying hi. And you'll see they were like, what? Weren't you supposed to stop by over here? Look what went down. Play this clip.

2:13Ben Meiselas:And then you had J.D. Vance go over to Ivanka and say, oh, I guess we're not going to be at the table with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping tonight. I guess they're going to put us at the kiddie table. Actually, they were going to put you at the kiddie table. Here, play this clip.

3:11Ben Meiselas:I do want to show you this footage over here where you could see Ivanka with her daughter, Arabella during the earlier proceedings with the Trump Xi visit. You can see this for yourself. Play this clip.

3:30And then there were all these puff pieces that Ivanka planted that were being

3:40Ben Meiselas:written. Look, Ivanka Trump's daughter, Arabella, had a special three-word greeting for Xi during China's visit. Welcome to America. I mean, we all saw what happened. They just walked right past you guys. Also, look at the table from the state dinner right here. You have Trump and his closest friends at the state dinner sitting all together. You had Trump and the CEO of NVIDIA, the CEO of AMD, you had Elon Musk, you had Xi, Xi's wife, you had Melania, and you have Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. No Ivanka, no J.D. Vance at that table. I mean, doesn't that just tell you all about the oligarchy right there?

4:22Ben Meiselas:Then I want to go and talk about what happened at the United Nations, where Albania's Prime Minister, Eddie Rama, he just brings up the island that Ivanka and Jared Kushner are trying to take over the Saison Islands that are trying to turn into like this Trump and Steen getaway. It's caused 120 days or so of massive protests in Albania. Shout out to the Flamingo protests. And the protests are against this guy, Eddie Rama and Kushner and Ivanka for their oligarchical collusion and taking over this island. And remember, Ivanka's like, I discovered this island all by myself. I was on the yacht with the Rothschilds.

5:08Ben Meiselas:She says, she goes, I'm on a yacht with the Rothschilds. And I said, ahoy, ahoy. That's an island right there. I want it. I want it, daddy. I want my island, Rothschild. And then she goes, that her and Jared said, it had to be theirs. Despite it being a protected, beautiful, lush, incredible island that belongs to Albania and not them. But this is what Eddie Rama says. And this just has everybody just fuming right now. Eddie Rama says, have you heard about the Flamingo revolution? It is a fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast. What are you doing? An Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast?

5:52Ben Meiselas:No, no. The protest is simply because Jared Kushner and Ivanka are taking over an island that doesn't belong to them. That's what people are pissed about, that you're giving away your land to turn it into Trump and Steen too. That's what people are. Why are you making it into an Israeli invasion? And what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Why are you trying to inject that? The people are protesting most significantly, Ivanka, you, Eddie Rama, as well as Jared Kushner here play this clip. Albania experienced this directly. I'm sure you must have followed or just known the so-called Flamingo Revolution, a fabricated narrative of an Israeli invasion of the Albanian coast, An invasion that never occurred was manufactured, was personalized, and delivered through voices, pages, and channels citizens already trusted.

6:59One citizen received a story of national betrayal. Another received a story of religious provocation. Another received a conspiracy of foreign occupation. Different fabrications entered different emotional worlds, all serving the same strategic lie. The consequences were real. Citizens had their own reasons to protest, don't take me wrong. But suddenly, they started to protest also against a phantom enemy. anti-semitic tropes entered our public discourse for first time ever don't forget

7:46Ben Meiselas:and then eddie rama while he was there for the united nations got an egg thrown at him can i show you what that looked like as he had to dodge an egg here play this clip I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. Mafia. Mafia. Mafia. Mafia. Mafia. What criminal?

8:16Criminal. Criminal. Mafia. Yeah, he didn't do anything. He didn't do anything.

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9:57Ben Meiselas:And then people, of course, were talking about how Ivanka looks, of course, just like Natalie Harp, Donald Trump's human printer. All of the puff pieces Ivanka tried to put in the various right-wing outlets were all backfiring. And everybody was also just talking about just how bad this made the United States, how weak this made the United States look. I mean, you had Ivanka showing up there wearing like the blue Chinese designer outfit for Xi while Donald Trump is like, we're so grateful. We respect you so much, Xi. You're such, I just want to let you know how much great respect for you have.

10:38Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump creates a shrine for Xi Jinping. I mean, obviously, you know, by now earlier, Trump had our military get on their knees and roll out red carpets for Xi and basically almost like kiss Xi Jinping's feet. It was freaking crazy to watch, right? They had our Air Force personnel bring the red carpet, our army personnel get on their knees. And then Donald Trump goes to Xi, do you like this shrine? Look, I built you basically a shrine. This has been up for years. So what Trump says here, take a look for yourself. Let's play it. Who is that? I don't recognize. Go ahead. I'm just saying nice.

11:16Well, we have a lot of respect for you. We have these. We've had it up for a year. A lot of respect.

11:23Ben Meiselas:I mean, what a phony this guy is. This is the guy who in 2011 said, China owes us money. They don't respect us. Here, play this clip. China stole our technology. I know China very well. No friend of ours. So they stole our technology. We owe China over a trillion dollars. We should deduct something from China. China owes us money. You can't go in and steal technology like that. We have rights. They treat us like a bunch of dopes. They treat us like a bunch of patsies. They don't respect us. And they certainly don't respect our leaders who have parties for them at the White House and they just do nothing but rip us off.

12:08Ben Meiselas:That's what he said in 2011. Xi Jinping went into the White House this past week at the end of the week and he talked about the Thucydides trap. He said to Donald Trump's face in essence by invoking the Thucydides trap, what that means is that the US is a falling power, a descending power. China is the ascending power. That's what the Thucydides trap means. And Donald Trump's like, oh, okay, Thucydides trap, Thucydides trap. and then doing this lavish state dinner. And this is what Trump said, just so you remember in 2016, this is what Trump said about state dinners from people like Xi Jinping.

12:44Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. And I don't say it's going to happen and probably it won't, but there's nothing. I wouldn't go there, that I can tell you. If he came here, I'd accept him, but I wouldn't give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off or we give them these big state dinners. We give them state dinners like you've never seen. We shouldn't have dinners at all. We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table. And we should make better deals with China and others. And forget the state dinners. You forget the state dinners. That cost, by the way, a fortune.

13:24That cost a fortune. Do you remember when I saw a state dinner?

13:28Ben Meiselas:And it's a tent. And here, this one is also from the 2012 campaign when Donald Trump was attacking former President Obama. This is what Donald Trump said back then. You can see for yourself. Let's play it. Are they stupid? And I say, absolutely, they're stupid. So, you know, I don't blame them. It's like if you make a bad business deal, if you don't know what you're doing, you know, you have to blame yourself. I blame our leaders here. We have China Ripping this country off like nobody's ever seen before and we have the president of China come a few months ago to Washington And we give him a state dinner now when people are screwing you you don't give them state dinners.

14:12You don't do it So what happens is we send them home and then you heard my statement, right? I said, no, no, we're not giving dinners. What we do is we sit down in my office for a couple of hours. We either make a deal where you stop manipulating your currency or not. If we make a deal, you can have a state dinner if you want. If you don't make a deal, you take McDonald's and you go home. That's it. That's it.

14:38Ben Meiselas:And this is when Ivanka announced that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, were going to be building the Trumpenstein Island on the Cezanne. Here play this clip. I'm working on an incredible project with my husband in the Mediterranean. It's massive in scale. I think that's an understatement. Can you explain? It is. It is. There's no power on this island. You're building everything from scratch, correct? It's an unbelievable, beautiful, 1 ,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. We were on a friend's boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that's how we found it. We swam to the islands.

15:16We went on a hike barefoot all the way up to the top and we were just captivated.

15:22Ben Meiselas:Now, I'll also remind you that during the first term, remember Ivanka got all of those trademarks for her clothing line, fast track. Remember that? This was in 2020 was reported how the Chinese government granted a total of 41 trademarks for companies linked to Ivanka Trump by April of 2019. And the trademark she applied for after her father became president, got approved about 40 % faster than those she requested before Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election. Ridiculous right there. Let me show you what some of the protests look like over here in Albania as of yesterday. Let's play this clip.

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