Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton rebuked President Trump on Monday and said her mother never would have asked her to sit in for her at the G-20 if she had been elected president, after Trump let his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump sit in for him over the weekend.
“Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not,” Clinton responded on Twitter Monday morning.
Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 10, 2017
Trump defended his daughter and senior adviser for sitting in for him at a meeting at last week’s G-20 summit, in response to critics who said that move wasn’t appropriate.
“When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat. Very standard. Angela M agrees!” Trump wrote.
Trump administration officials said delegations from all countries routinely let others take the seat of their leader for brief moments, and Trump argued that the press would have had a much different reaction if Chelsea Clinton had been allowed to sit in for a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton.
“If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother,as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!” Trump added.
