First of all, what are the chances that Ivanka has ever handled a vacuum at any point during her life?

I’m going with slim to none, because it requires great dexterity to manage a silver spoon in the mouth and a Dyson at the same time.

Still, she’s well within her rights to voice her distaste at an exhibition taking place at Washington DC museum, Flashpoint Gallery, which opened on February 1 and runs until February 17, and is the work of Jennifer Rubell.

The exhibition features an Ivanka lookalike, with more from the Guardian:

The public is encouraged to “throw crumbs on to the carpet, watching as Ivanka elegantly vacuums up the mess, her smile never wavering”.

A large text description of the work hanging on the gallery wall describes Trump as “a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities – daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde”. It calls the act of throwing bread crumbs on to the carpet for her to vacuum “surprisingly pleasurable”.

Let them eat crumbs!

Ivanka kept her response succinct:

Except when it comes to the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, or mothers being separated from their children at the border, or the Access Hollywood tapes, or the women working in appalling conditions in the Chinese factories where her products are made, and…

The list goes on.

‘America’s Most Desperate Son Seeking His Father’s Love 2018‘ winner Don Jr also waded in:

Eric Trump threw caution to the wind, telling Fox News that Ivanka is a “powerful woman who has done more for women than probably anybody in Washington DC”.

OK, Eric, that’s quite enough out of you this week.

Rubell, the New York-based conceptual artist, is probably quite stoked with all the attention:

[She] said in an interview on the CulturalDC website that the experience is meant to draw observers and crumb-throwers into a complicit relationship.

“Here is what’s complicated: we enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It’s funny, it’s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more,” she said.

“Also, we know she’ll keep vacuuming whether we do it or not, so it’s not really our fault, right?”

Ivanka and complicit have gone hand in hand since the now infamous Saturday Night Live (or S&L, according to Don Jr) skit from 2017, starring Scarlett Johansson.

It’s a good place to finish:

[source:guardian]