[custom_adv] Ivanka Trump has become an ironic internet Carmen Sandiego. She's popped up in The Last Supper, at the Yalta Conference alongside Winston Churchill, in the opening credits of Friends, on the Abbey Road album cover, on Mount Rushmore. Sometimes, like when she's photobombing Dust Bowl migrants, she's flashing a big cheesy grin. Other times, like at President Lyndon B. Johnson's swearing in, she's more of a pensive onlooker. She is always amusing, always awkward—and always unwanted. [custom_adv] The people of Twitter have been Photoshopping Ivanka Trump into images of historical import since she attended the G20 summit in Japan last weekend as part of her father's delegation. The trend started after BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi tweeted a video showing Trump's attempts to network with world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Teresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. [custom_adv] In the clip, the first daughter looks less welcome than a geek at the cool-kid table, and less than 24 hours after it made the rounds, writer Erin Ryan kicked off the #UnwantedIvanka meme by asking the internet to place Trump into other scenes, like soccer player Megan Rapinoe's goal celebration and Beyoncé's Coachella performance. The internet, in turn, gleefully obliged.Since then, #UnwantedIvanka has spread across all of time and space, from Ancient Egypt to the moon landing to Elliot's bike basket in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. [custom_adv] Starting in March 2017, she left the Trump Organization and began serving in her father's presidential administration as an adviser alongside her husband. [custom_adv] She assumed this official, unpaid position after ethics concerns were raised about her having access to classified material while not being held to the same restrictions as a federal employee. [custom_adv] She was considered part of the president's inner circle even before becoming an official employee in his administration. She is also one of the wealthiest of her family, with an estimated net worth of $300 million. [custom_adv] She attended the Chapin School in Manhattan until she was 15, when she transferred to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. She characterized Choate's "boarding-school life" as being like a "prison", while her "friends in New York were having fun". [custom_adv] The people of Twitter have been Photoshopping Ivanka Trump into images of historical import since she attended the G20 summit in Japan last weekend as part of her father's delegation. The trend started after BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi tweeted a video showing Trump's attempts to network with world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Teresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. [custom_adv] Bizarre Photoshops of the first family are typically more internet game than political commentary. When President Obama's daughters attended their first state dinner in 2016, a photographer snapped a photo of Sasha chatting with Ryan Reynolds while Malia flashed her a thumbs up in the background. This too became a meme, but it didn't really mean anything besides … thumbs up. Ditto President George W. Bush struggling with a poncho at President Trump's inauguration. The people involved were political figures, but the meme only conveyed derpy dishevelment. #UnwantedIvanka doesn't work like that. [custom_adv] The people of Twitter have been Photoshopping Ivanka Trump into images of historical import since she attended the G20 summit in Japan last weekend as part of her father's delegation. The trend started after BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi tweeted a video showing Trump's attempts to network with world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Teresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. [custom_adv] In the clip, the first daughter looks less welcome than a geek at the cool-kid table, and less than 24 hours after it made the rounds, writer Erin Ryan kicked off the #UnwantedIvanka meme by asking the internet to place Trump into other scenes, like soccer player Megan Rapinoe's goal celebration and Beyoncé's Coachella performance. The internet, in turn, gleefully obliged.Since then, #UnwantedIvanka has spread across all of time and space, from Ancient Egypt to the moon landing to Elliot's bike basket in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. [custom_adv] If you try to find meaning in individual #UnwantedIvanka memes, you'll be disappointed. The joke is always "one of these things is not like the others." But there is something to be gleaned from the broader oeuvre of memes around Ivanka Trump. Just about every one the internet has come up with—Trump gazing longingly at Trudeau at the White House, Trump's expression while meeting the Pope, Trump coming to the Capitol to exchange an awkward hug with Senator Marco Rubio—could have been an #UnwantedIvanka meme. They all look sideways at her place on the world stage. [custom_adv] She assumed this official, unpaid position after ethics concerns were raised about her having access to classified material while not being held to the same restrictions as a federal employee. [custom_adv] After graduating from Choate, she attended Georgetown University for two years, then transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004. [custom_adv] She was considered part of the president's inner circle even before becoming an official employee in his administration. She is also one of the wealthiest of her family, with an estimated net worth of $300 million. [custom_adv] It was the latest attempt by Ivanka Trump to shed her former identity as a real estate heiress, fashion brand entrepreneur and socialite. Over the past week, at the G20 summit in Japan and in the visit to the Korean peninsula, she tried to position herself as a world-class diplomat who belongs at the table with the likes of Kim, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, French President Emmanuel Macron and other heads of state. [custom_adv] Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born October 30, 1981), is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, and reality television personality who is currently Advisor to the President of the United States.
