Mere hours after the disastrous launch of her #FindSomthingNew campaign, which aims to inspire the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs as a result of her father’s botched response to coronavirus to consider enrolling in community colleges and changing their entire careers, Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to plug… Goya beans?
A little backstory: The food company, which is the largest Hispanic-owned privately held business in the country, has been facing boycotts after CEO Robert Unanue praised Donald Trump in a Rose Garden event last week, saying the nation was “truly blessed” to have him as its leader.
Yesterday evening, the failed-handbag-designer-turned-White-House-advisor may have violated a federal ethics rule when she tweeted a picture of herself holding a can of Goya beans along with the caption, “If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.”
If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020
According to the United States Office of Government Ethics official guidelines, “Executive branch employees may not use their Government positions to suggest that the agency or any part of the executive branch endorses an organization (including a nonprofit organization), product, service, or person.”
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People certainly had a lot to say about the post…
Why is a senior White House official endorsing a food product?
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 15, 2020
When exactly has Ivanka Trump eaten Goya Food?? 🙄
— Jules Morgan (@glamelegance) July 15, 2020
This is a Hatch Act Violation. LOCK HER UP!
— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) July 15, 2020
This family will sell ANYTHING
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 15, 2020
I imagine Ivanka sent her maid out to get this can as a prop.
— JeremyNewberger (@jeremynewberger) July 15, 2020
I’m sure all the white supremacists who support your dad are grateful for the Spanish translation.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) July 15, 2020
You do know you just violated the law, don’t you? And that the statute of limitations just started running today? And the next president will be in office in less than a year? And that if it’s not your dad, real prosecutors will enforce the law and fine you?
5 CFR § 2635.702(c)— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 15, 2020
83% of American Hispanics disapprove of your father. The Goya CEO had to fawn all over him, saying how “blessed” we are to have such a great leader. It was a stupid business move and now their will be economic consequences. No more Goya for my household.
— CathyO (@cathyob1) July 15, 2020
Goya fuck yourself.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 15, 2020
Oh photoshop Twitter is about to wreck you
— Negrodamus 🧙🏾♂️ (@jumoffit) July 15, 2020
Sure enough, then came the memes…
— Nurse Nina (@NurseNinaPA) July 15, 2020
When you said to #FindSomethingNew, I really wasn’t expecting this. pic.twitter.com/KLr12c9Owc
— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) July 15, 2020
Who likes Hot Pockets more, @NunesAlt? I think she’s faking. pic.twitter.com/NjpNqUUjI2
— DevinNunesTHEDragQueen (@NunesDrag) July 15, 2020
#TrySomethingNew 😂 pic.twitter.com/DteNjSBrok
— JerriLynn (@Jerri_Lynn25) July 15, 2020
The Narcissist’s Unqualified Daughter pic.twitter.com/vqadYMTcpk
— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) July 15, 2020
Sick girl… pic.twitter.com/aeGGePWM5L
— 🌖Lady Karma🌒 (@LA_Karma1) July 15, 2020
— Shane Reid (@Shane_Reid79) July 15, 2020
“It’s our family go-to against Covid19.” pic.twitter.com/dx89IzepbZ
— LGBTQ+Resist 🏳️🌈 (@Dyke67ny) July 15, 2020
“Daddy’s favorite book” says Ivanka Trump. “He read it to me every night as a child. He’s not a racist. It’s just a book.” pic.twitter.com/DDH2rXc0Xq
— Parallel News 1 (@parallelnewsone) July 15, 2020
It’s got electrolytes pic.twitter.com/zBAre5l4yQ
— 👮🏻♂️ Pigs are treyf 🚫 (@JewishWorker) July 15, 2020
Nice! pic.twitter.com/sywrcPXXPm
— Piercey (@lazypoolboy) July 15, 2020
Ahhh, the absolutely shameless Ivanka Trump endless grift continues… pic.twitter.com/M9BJ1RYvbL
— Matt Johnson (@HotPockets4All) July 15, 2020
A spokeswoman for the first daughter was quick to defend the tweet, saying Ivanka was merely showing “personal support” for the brand and accusing the media of stoking “cancel culture.”
“Ivanka is proud of this strong, Hispanic-owned business with deep roots in the US and has every right to express her personal support,” White House spokeswoman Carolina Hurley said in a statement.
Mister P
Everyone knows the no ball Senate won’t do anything about that family’s corruption or lawlessness.
They need to be tried for treason.
Cam
The reason we are in the current mess is because after Bush left office, the Democrats refused to prosecute any of the violations, insisting the country wanted to move on.
As a result, Dems lost Congress in the next election, and Republicans decided they could commit more and more egregious crimes with no penalty.
For the sake of the country all of these violations need to be prosecuted to the full extent when the current administration is out of power.
Kangol2
Exactly. Obama wanted to turn the corner and look ahead, in part because he thought he could work with the GOP, over and over, to the point of essentially begging them to support the Republican health care plan that GOPer Mitt Romney had instituted in Massachusetts, and all they did was kick him in the tuches over and over. Mitch McConnell even said he wanted to do everything he could to ensure Obama was a one-term president, and the GOP acted like fools for the entire 8 years of his presidency.
Meanwhile, the gross criminality of the anti-gay W Bush, which spanned the gamut from sitting on his hands as warnings came in about the worst terrorist attack in US history to no prosecutions for CIA torture and warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary renditions to zero resolution about the anthrax attacks to the criminal greed of the banks and Wall Streets to lying us into one of the disastrous debacles, the Iraq War, in recent US history to allowing an entire city, New Orleans, to suffer after a hurricane to crash the US and global economy all went unscathed. The GOP basically disappeared those 8 catastrophic years and the Democrats went right along with it. Just think about how long it took Obama to dig out of the economic and financial hole W Bush created!
What did that produce: a Republican president far worse, treasonous, mendacious, utterly without a soul or sense of dignity, a monstrous narcissistic psychopathic criminal who as I type is STILL not addressing a national and global pandemic, an economy that is barely sputtering, or any number of issues the US faces! Instead, he spent an entire press conference yesterday trying to blame China for all his problems and trying to smear Biden. Don the Con even had the gall to say on Monday that Obama and Biden hadn’t tested for Covid-19–that’s because it didn’t exist until 2019!
jennifer.white530
Goya sales are up 500% at retail.
Cam
How interesting all of the troll accounts all over Twitter are making claims like this, But funny enough since this just happened in the last few days, Goya wouldn’t have had time to put out any new sales figures, because stores wouldn’t have even had time to order new batches.
To summarize, if you’re going to make up a lie, try not to make it such a stupid one troll.
But the fact that you trolls are so desperately trying to claim that Goya’s sales haven’t been hurt, means you are pretty certain that they have been. Just like any other company that has associated themselves with Trump. Ask Papa John’s owner how supporting Trump worked out for him
rocknstan
I will spread the word about Goya.
Boycott those Goya beans.
Let the Goya establishment start something “new.”
jennifer.white530
I work for a major grocery store chain. We cannot keep up with demand.
Cam
You’re lying, a while ago you claimed to have a different job that suited the discussion for that thread. If you’re going to lie in desperation try not to make it about something you’ve lied about before.
Kangol2
Cam, maybe Jennifer has multiple personalities and cannot recall the stories she tells, like Sybil. Maybe one of those personalities lives in a right-wing enclave where lots of people buy Goya products (Hialeah)? Maybe Jennifer/Sybil is buying the products themselves and thinks its other people. You never know!
ThinkPlease
She works flat on her back pumping a tiny orange gherkin in the White House. She can’t keep it up at all, actually.
Observant
You need more training, comrade.
Hate to see you end up on Putin’s bad side.
Cam
@ThinkPlease
Read for filth! lol
ThinkPlease
I’m sure anybody anywhere will get right on prosecuting that at any time. Sure, Jan.
Invader7
Another Agolf Twitterler WHORE !!! They’ll do anything while brown nosing Herr Twitterler. May she choke on Goya beans.
jennifer.white530
Cam I understand things must be stressful for you living in downtown Portland since that city as gone to shit but I have never discussed where I work in the past!
mozzer
STFU RUSSIAN BOT
Cam
Sweetie, no matter WHAT screename you use, your obsession with me always bleeds through.
Sorry, I’m just not that into you.
ScottOnEarth
And why is no one doing anything? This pathetic administration is constantly violating ethics rules and NO ONE does anything.