Brushing aside groans and boos in Berlin, Ivanka defends father’s attitude to women

IVANKA TRUMP brushed aside groans and hisses on Tuesday over her father’s track record and defended his attitudes toward women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser.

Trump pledged to push for “incremental, positive change” for women in the US economy and told a Berlin conference on women that she’s still “rather unfamiliar” with her role as first daughter and adviser to US President Donald Trump.

The scattered groans and hisses came as she described her father as “a tremendous champion of supporting families.”

Her one-day visit, at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, gave Merkel and other officials face-to-face access with the President’s influential daughter at a time when world leaders are still trying to discern where his policies will lead.

Merkel and Trump were part of a high-powered panel discussion Tuesday at the W20 Summit, a women-focused effort within the Group of 20 countries, entitled “Inspiring women: Scaling up women’s entrepreneurship.”

The 35-year-old Ivanka, who stepped away from both running her fashion brand and from an executive role at the Trump Organisation to become an unpaid White House adviser, said she is still finding her feet in her new role at the White House.

“I’m listening, I’m learning, I’m defining the ways in which I think that I’ll be able to have impact” in empowering women in the American economy and beyond, she said.

She says she plans “to bring the advice, to bring the knowledge, back to the United States, back to both my father and the President and hopefully that will bring about incremental, positive change. And that is my goal.”