Who would you, as president of the United States, send to South Korea amid the most heightened nuclear tensions since the Cuban Missile Crisis? An experienced diplomat or … your daughter, a woman with no training or expertise whatsoever in international relations.
"The decision to send her to South Korea did not sit well with some senior officials in the West Wing, two people familiar with the situation told CNN. The nuclear threat from North Korea and the tensions already boiling across the Korean Peninsula made any US delegation far more than ceremonial….
"[White House Chief of Staff Gen. John] Kelly was advised by those closest to him that it would be a losing battle to oppose Ivanka as the delegation's leader."
The most powerful nation in the world is now a goddamn laughingstock represented by a handful of bumbling, ill-informed amateurs no brighter than the dimwitted voters who put the primary bumbler in charge.