Ivanka Trump Tries Proverbs
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Ivanka Trump, daughter of the worst president in the world and proud user of some of his ‘best words’. Ivanka tried to use a generic ‘Chinese Proverb’ and subsequently nearly every Asian person on Twitter had some wisdom of their own to depart.
Ahead of her father arriving in Singapore for the historic meeting with Kim Jong-un, Ivanka tweeted what may have been some sound advice, according to a Chinese Proverb.
“Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 11, 2018
How lovely.
There was one problem though. This is almost certainly not a proverb of any sort. Chances are it was written by a Caucasian male to sell something in the 1960s. Social media, like a spider on a web, swarmed the mistake stating:
For the record, this is not a Chinese proverb but a piece of ‘mysterious East’ wisdom made up by Westerners (see next tweet). 1/ https://t.co/HqGnwCI4SP
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) June 12, 2018
There’s plenty of wisdom and insight in Asian philosophy, culture, religious systems, etc.
It would be nice if more people had actual knowledge and appreciation of it instead of relying on made up things like this. 3/
— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) June 12, 2018
Literally, three minutes of research would have shown that maybe this isn’t true. But we’re gonna guess ‘research’ isn’t really in the Trump vocabulary. The following tweets ripped the poor president’s daughter apart.
"Anything sounds more important with quotation marks and a generic Chinese person saying it." -Chinese Proverb https://t.co/R5oJVyJ63w
— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) June 12, 2018
"Those who Tweet Chinese Proverbs should check their sources." -George Washington
— John Junkins (@too_tall_john) June 12, 2018
Three minutes of googling suggests this is a fake Chinese Proverb. It seems in fact to be American from the turn of the 20th c.—which makes sense, since its spirit is can-do Americanism. But why are Trump WH aides giving our proverbs to China, increasing our proverb deficit? https://t.co/bqjbZhXlQr
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 11, 2018
This isn’t the first time she’s misquoted something, however. In July last year, she misquoted Albert Einstein, writing:
‘If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.’
He never said that. Ever.
Oh well. Who could blame her when her father cranks out such banging quotes like:
‘Grab her by the p***y.’
‘Sh**hole countries.’
‘I have the best words.’
The list goes on.