Samantha Bee Criticizes Ivanka Trump's 'Women Who Work' Book: List Of Most Harsh Reviews Of First Daughter's Book
Television host Samantha Bee criticized first daughter Ivanka Trump’s new book titled “Women Who Work: Redefining the Rules for Success” on the Wednesday episode of her TBS show “Full Frontal.”
During her introductory monologue, the former "Daily Show" corresspondent shredded the assistant to the president and her new book.
"'Women Who Work' contains more fonts than original thoughts," Bee said. She also suggested starting a book club titled "Ladies Who Book" to discuss Ivanka’s new book. Bee's criticizm continued by saying Ivanka used too many sources - about 208, and that she had quoted “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 30 Times.”
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"True to her family’s brand and empire, Ivanka wrote this book largely by taking other people’s work and stamping her name on it," Bee said before specifying the first daughter misattributed a quote by little-known pastor Dave Willis, instead crediting the famous voice actor Dave Willis.
Bee then moved to criticizing the inspirational quotes Ivanka used in her book, starting with Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou quotes about racism and slavery. She also poked fun at her ideas about career women.
"It takes a special kind of whiteness to take a Maya Angelou line about racism, mangle it, and apply it to asking for a raise," Bee said.
Bee ended the review with her final thoughts on the book that said "If you were raised working poor like me, this book will inspire you—specifically, it will inspire you to challenge the next rich woman you see to a broken beer-bottle fight."
After its release May 2, Ivanka’s book was criticized and even got mixed reactions from the people she quoted in the book.
Here are some of the harshest reviews of “Women Who Work.”
The Huffington Post’s Emily Peck criticized Ivanka’s "inability" to recognize her own privileged upbringing as the means to her success.
Peck said: "Trump’s book... is a grab-bag of generic work-life advice for upper-middle-class white women who need to 'architect' (a verb that pops up a lot) their lives. But underneath that, and perhaps more remarkable, is Trump’s inability to truly recognize how her own privileged upbringing was key to her success."
Jennifer Senior, a writer for New York Magazine and the New York Times, describes the book as a "strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes" in her review of it. She also added: "In this way, the book is not really offensive so much as witlessly derivative, endlessly recapitulating the wisdom of other, canonical self-help and business books — by Stephen Covey, Simon Sinek, Shawn Achor, Adam Grant. (Profiting handsomely off the hard work of others appears to be a signature Trumpian trait.)"
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Fatima Goss Graves wrote in U.S. News and World Report about the "women Ivanka ignores" in her book by failing to address the barriers facing most women in the U.S. today. "No amount of personal drive and sunny approach will ease the life of a mother of two who is struggling to pay her rent and put food on the table," according to Goss Graves.
Michelle Goldberg of Slate said: "None of this is to say Ivanka hasn’t struggled over the last year and a half. 'During extremely high-capacity times, like during the campaign, I went into survival mode: I worked and I was with my family; I didn’t do much else,’ she writes. 'Honestly, I wasn’t treating myself to a massage or making much time for self-care.'"
"Nevertheless, she persisted. Now she may be the most powerful woman in the world, propping up the father who once publicly agreed with Howard Stern she was a “piece of ass.” There’s a lesson in here somewhere. It’s not an empowering one,” she added.
Business Insider U.K.’s Kate Taylor said: “The book, which the first daughter and White House adviser wrote while her father was running for president, reads like a mashup of countless essays and articles written in the past decade aimed at female entrepreneurs.”
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