President Trump’s oldest daughter, Ivanka, who has served as a senior adviser in his administration, gave introductory remarks ahead of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that celebrated his unapologetic fight for the people and even his tweets.
“Now more than ever, America needs four more years of a warrior in the White House,” she said.
Ivanka Trump talked about her father’s passion to achieve great deals and how that skill and ambition will help the nation recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn.
“I remember each time he was updated on the progress of the new trade deal with Mexico and Canada,” Ivanka Trump recalled, referring to the rewritten North American Free Trade Agreement. “He would say, ‘Don’t let down those dairy farmers I met in Wisconsin. I don’t want them to like this deal. I want them to love it.’”
Like other convention speakers, Ivanka Trump sought to humanize her father, who Democrats and other critics say has downplayed the coronavirus and shown little empathy for its tremendous human cost.
She also reflected on the tough decisions he has had to make in the Oval Office, including the move to cut off flights from Europe last spring when the virus began surging overseas.
“I’ve been with my father, and I’ve seen the pain in his eyes when he receives updates on the lives that have been stolen by this plague,” she said.
“I have witnessed him make some of the most difficult decisions of his life,” she said. “I sat with him in the Oval Office as he stopped traveled to Europe. I watched him take the strongest, most inclusive economy in a lifetime, the lowest unemployment in a half-century and the highest wage increase for working families in decades, and close it down to save American lives.”
The White House describes Ivanka Trump’s advisory role as one that is centered on education and the economic empowerment of women, job creation, and economic growth through workforce development and skills training.
Ivanka Trump said her father is motivated by the tough road ahead to return the nation to economic prosperity and to vanquish the coronavirus.
The president mobilized the country to produce thousands of ventilators and rapidly develop treatments and a forthcoming vaccine, she said.
“Donald Trump rejects the cynical notion that this country’s greatest achievements are behind us,” Ivanka Trump said. “He believes that nothing is beyond our reach. And that the best is yet to come.”
She also made reference to her father’s brash style of communicating, often through Twitter.
“My father has strong convictions, he knows what he believes, and he says what he thinks,” Ivanka Trump said. “Whether you agree with him or not, you always know where he stands. I recognize that my dad’s communication style is not to everyone’s taste. And I know that his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered, but the results — the results speak for themselves.”
