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Ivanka Trump, Unironically: I Got My Moral Compass From My Dad This is an actual thing the first daughter said, out loud, in front of people.

 Like many of the most terrible people in history, Donald Trump should never have been allowed to reproduce. Nevertheless, he has famously ...

 Like many of the most terrible people in history, Donald Trump should never have been allowed to reproduce. Nevertheless, he has famously spawned numerous children, each of whom has inherited some of his specific traits. Don Jr. got his dad’s IQ. Eric got his head for numbers. Tiffany got use of his last name. Barron got tacit acknowledgement that they’re related. And what gift did he bestow upon Ivanka? The answer may surprise you:

At a mid-August fundraiser in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Ivanka Trump was asked to name the personality traits she inherited most from her parents. Without much of a pause, Trump told the crowd of roughly 120 high-end donors that her mother gave her an example of how to be a powerful, successful woman. And her father? He passed onto her his moral compass, she said, according to two event attendees.

Unsurprisingly, Ivanka was mocked in every corner of the internet for this answer, but to be fair to the president’s favorite child, she’s not wrong! Father and daughter do share a similar sense of right and wrong. Trump has:

Locked kids in cages;

Cozied up to dictators;

Attempted to obstruct justice;

Used the office of the presidency to enrich himself;

Cheated;

Lied (and lied and lied some more.

While Ivanka has:

Used the office of the presidency to enrich herself;

Seemingly broken the law;

Defended her father against charges of racism after he said objectively racist things;

Tried to distract people with shiny objects every time her father has done something terrible

Lied, lied, paused for a hair cut, and lied some more.

Sure, she still has a little way to go before the student becomes the master, but if anyone’s a chip off the ole block, it’s this one.

Trump just comes out and says it: I think dictatorships rock

It’s so nice when we can drop the pretense:

Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel du Palais during last month’s Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France, President Trump awaited a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. “Where’s my favorite dictator?” Mr. Trump called out in a voice loud enough to be heard by the small gathering of American and Egyptian officials. Several people who were in the room at the time said they heard the question.

The witnesses said they believed the president made the comment jokingly, but said his question was met by a stunned silence. It couldn’t be determined whether Mr. Sisi was present or heard the remark. The White House declined to comment. Egyptian officials couldn’t be reached for comment…. Mr. Sisi has drawn criticism for his authoritarian rule since taking power following a 2013 coup. Under Mr. Sisi, Egyptian authorities have been accused of detaining thousands of political opponents, of torturing and killing prisoners and of stymying political opposition, according to reports by the United Nations, U.S. State Department and nongovernmental groups.

Trump has a well-documented thing for dictators, praising the management style of Al Sisi and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the latter of whom has overseen the imprisonment of thousands of dissidents; President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, whose regime has killed more than 6,000 people; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had a U.S. resident killed; his favorite North Korean authoritarian; and, of course, his buddy Vladimir Putin, whose word he takes over that of U.S. intelligence agencies.

Report: Corporate America doesn’t buy Trump’s claim a China deal is coming soon

That may have something to do with the fact that he’s lied about a deal more than once in the past. Just a hunch:

If you follow the markets, there’s been recent reason for optimism about a U.S.-China trade deal. Some investors are buying it—literally—with recent gains in stocks attributed to positive signals from the U.S. and China after a volatile August. But there’s one group of market insiders not buying the talk: corporate executives. In other words, the people who run the companies whose publicly traded shares have been rebounding.

Top executives in the U.S. and around the world are not placing bets that the U.S.-China trade war will be resolved anytime soon. In fact, corporations say they expect to feel the pain of trade tensions over the next six months, according to the third-quarter CNBC Global CFO Council survey. The quarterly survey finds CFOs around the world increasingly are worried about U.S. trade policy as a business risk factor.

Area man asks the important questions

Just let it wash over you

Recently, [White House acting chief of staff] Mick Mulvaney told donors about his instructions to one White House policy adviser, who was scheduled to brief the president on budget cuts, government spending, and regulations. Mulvaney warned that no one gets through a presentation without being interrupted multiple times by the president.

This official did manage to deliver his full briefing, Mulvaney told the crowd. But instead of asking a follow-up question, Trump asked the White House aide who he would be in the world, if he could be anyone—himself or, say, Tiger Woods?

Was the follow up question “if you could have any super power what would it be?” Because that sure seems like where this is headed.

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