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Ivanka Trump Just Tweeted That She's 'En Route to the Hague' and How Did She Not See These Jokes Coming?
05 June 2019
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 03: Ivanka Trump during the visit by US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to Westminster Abbey on June 03, 2019 in London, England. President Trump's three-day state visit will include lunch with the Queen, and a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, as well as business meetings with the Prime Minister and the Duke of York, before travelling to Portsmouth to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
The tone-deafness of the Trump administration reached a new low on Wednesday after Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor, tweeted that she was "en route to The Hague!"
En route to The Hague! 🇺🇸🇳🇱 #GES2019— Ivanka Trump (@Ivanka Trump)1559712853.0
<p>The Dutch city is <a href="https://www.indy100.com/article/ivanka-trump-the-hague-twitter-netherlands-2019-global-entrepreneurship-summit-8945181">best known</a> for housing the International Criminal Court, in which trials are held for war criminals, crimes against humanity, and genocide.</p><p><div id="action_button_container"></div>
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</script></p><p>Considering the Trump family's coziness with murderous autocrats like Russia's Vladimir Putin & North Korea's Kim Jong Un, as well as the ongoing humanitarian abuses of immigrants in the United States, Twitter pounced without mercy.</p><p></p><div id="88415" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="JADJQ11574873438"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136191061167091712" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump Self awareness level = absolute zero.</div> — Luke Russell (@Luke Russell)<a href="https://twitter.com/LukeRussell1281/statuses/1136191061167091712">1559724033.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="ad12a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4I1RG41574873438"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136229212560510976" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Now you’re talking https://t.co/h6I1eI7ctr</div> — Molly Jong-Fast (@Molly Jong-Fast)<a href="https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/statuses/1136229212560510976">1559733129.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="10dda" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="LFEMWY1574873438"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136231360799158272" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Big gesture of Ivanka to turn herself in. https://t.co/ViUSmscyM2</div> — shallow hal's moving castle (@shallow hal's moving castle)<a href="https://twitter.com/tom_bond/statuses/1136231360799158272">1559733641.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="998fc" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="DU1M4E1574873439"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136167801448685568" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">We did it! https://t.co/rx6ZKGyVBD</div> — Guy Endore-Kaiser (@Guy Endore-Kaiser)<a href="https://twitter.com/GuyEndoreKaiser/statuses/1136167801448685568">1559718487.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="63496" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="776RNF1574873439"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136170970580803585" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">So say we all https://t.co/w69rMcvRtx</div> — Clara Jeffery (@Clara Jeffery)<a href="https://twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/statuses/1136170970580803585">1559719243.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>People understandably have questions, like if Ms. Trump will be joined by others who helped implement the "<a href="https://thesocialedgen.wpengine.com/news/jeff-sessions-nazi-germany-jews-leaving-country/">zero tolerance</a>" border policy.</p><p></p><div id="1c7e8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1M5W0P1574873439"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136157411411222528" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump what are the charges</div> — Lord VoldeTrump (@Lord VoldeTrump)<a href="https://twitter.com/macguffin7/statuses/1136157411411222528">1559716010.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="35529" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9GCKTZ1574873439"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136256917242818561" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump Are you testifying for being complicit in crimes against humanity?</div> — Sandi Bachom (@Sandi Bachom)<a href="https://twitter.com/sandibachom/statuses/1136256917242818561">1559739734.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is probably not the response Ms. Trump anticipated.</p><p></p><div id="a6675" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7QR9K91574873439"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136241019341672448" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump A place where you actually belong, you fauxministic, fraudulent, sweatshop owning shanda spawn of the… https://t.co/dYK1fib1Z7</div> — Lesley Abravanel🆘 (@Lesley Abravanel🆘)<a href="https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/statuses/1136241019341672448">1559735944.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><div id="99c7e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7LT41R1574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136162416981659649" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump Good. I hope the trial is swift and justice is served with you and the family behind bars.… https://t.co/IJNQx0V6E4</div> — OHL (@OHL)<a href="https://twitter.com/ohlichtblau/statuses/1136162416981659649">1559717203.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="e2b1c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2U1Y8A1574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136235898557915137" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump Hopefully they will arrest you since America has been unable to do so.</div> — J-Dude (@J-Dude)<a href="https://twitter.com/jdudemill/statuses/1136235898557915137">1559734723.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="98d15" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="G7MGQO1574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136239821003866114" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump I wouldn't expect you to be so cheerful about this, but you do you, princess.</div> — Kim Wexler's Ponytail (@Kim Wexler's Ponytail)<a href="https://twitter.com/MadisonKittay/statuses/1136239821003866114">1559735658.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><div id="c2e5e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="SBHMX41574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136171503744143361" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump Ask for the Slobodon Milosevic suite</div> — theBelgian (@theBelgian)<a href="https://twitter.com/jericho71/statuses/1136171503744143361">1559719370.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>Ms. Trump's stopover falls on the eve of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 that turned the tide of World War II.</p><p></p><div id="dc042" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="LXKF621574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136249605740478464" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@IvankaTrump what a phenomenal way to commemorate D-Day</div> — saeen (@saeen)<a href="https://twitter.com/saeen90_/statuses/1136249605740478464">1559737991.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>Some people think the tweet may have been sent from the future.</p><p><div data-conversation-spotlight=""></div></p><p></p><div id="f2311" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="SHOHL31574873440"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136190089418149893" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Tweets from a future timeline https://t.co/7yDwoXckdP</div> — John Maguire (@John Maguire)<a href="https://twitter.com/JMaguireCritic/statuses/1136190089418149893">1559723801.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><div id="10c7c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5T8FF81574873441"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1136236221561262080" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">This is one of those 'there's a tweet for everything' future situations, right? 🤞 https://t.co/J4DOXQFhd2</div> — Andrew Lawrence 🕷️ (@Andrew Lawrence 🕷️)<a href="https://twitter.com/andrwlaw/statuses/1136236221561262080">1559734800.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>Ha ha Hague.</p>
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