The
Hill BY BRANDON CARTER
Ivanka
Trump briefly
took her father’s seat at a G20 Summit session on Saturday, sitting
next to world leaders including British Prime Minister Theresa
May and Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
A
photo posted to Twitter by a Russian G-20 representative shows Ivanka
sitting at the table in place of President Trump.
And replaces Pres Trump at the #G20 table as he leaves for bilateral meetings pic.twitter.com/Hf1zfGQeIP
— Svetlana Lukash (@LanaLukash) July 8, 2017
The
tweet was deleted soon after posting, but was captured in a
screenshot.
Cabinet
officials usually replace the president at those sessions when a
stand-in is needed. But Ivanka Trump, an official adviser to the
president, took his place instead.
“Ivanka
was sitting in the back and then briefly joined the main table when
the president had to step out,” the White House said in response to
the photo. The topic at hand concerned one of Ivanka Trump's
projects, the World Bank finance initiative for women entrepreneurs.
Earlier
in the day, Trump committed the
U.S. to contributing $50 million to the new World Bank Group Facility
for Women Entrepreneurship. Trump praised his daughter for being a
“forceful advocate for women entrepreneurs.”
“I’m
very proud of my daughter Ivanka, always have been from day one, I
have to tell you that,” he said.
"If
she weren't my daughter it would be so much easier for her,” Trump
joked. “It might be the only bad thing going for her."
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