Last night Ivanka Trump owned the libs by posting a photo of herself on Twitter with a can of black beans. Just a billionaire heiress in a white dress with gigot sleeves, planning her familys meals for the week, NBD.

Well, thats slightly less awkward than her father posing with an upside-down bible outside a locked church. At least nobody got teargassed for this living room photo-op. (If Ivanka Trump even knows how to work a can opener, then Im the Queen of England.)

On Thursday, Goya CEO Robert Unanue appeared in the Rose Garden to proclaim the country truly blessed to be led by an incredible builder like Donald Trump. Presumably Mr. Unanue was not referring to the tent cities constructed to imprison refugees and migrants, built by a president who continually describes immigrants as criminals, drug dealers, rapists.

Amid calls for a boycott of the prominent Hispanic-owned food company, the First Daughter, an official White House advisor, offered her unequivocal endorsement. But only in her capacity as a private citizen!

Only the media and the cancel culture movement would criticize Ivanka for showing her personal support for a company that has been unfairly mocked, boycotted and ridiculed for supporting this administration one that has consistently fought for and delivered for the Hispanic community, White House spokeswoman, Carolina Hurley, said. Ivanka is proud of this strong, Hispanic-owned business with deep roots in the U.S. and has every right to express her personal support.

Why is a government employee whose salary is paid using taxpayer money defending the First Daughters social media posts if they were made solely to express her personal support? Well, thats unclear. But according to Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics, the post represents a flagrant violation of ethics rules.

Theres a particularly unseemly aspect to this violation: it creates the appearance that the governments endorsement is for sale, he told ABC. Endorse the president and the administration will endorse your product.

Indeed, according to 5 CFR 2635.702(c), Anemployee shall not use or permit the use of his Government position or title or any authority associated with his public office to endorse any product, service or enterprise[.] While Ivankas Twitter bio claims to be her Personal Pg. Views are my own, it also lists her official position as Advisor to POTUS on job creation + economic empowerment, workforce development & entrepreneurship. Like her father, she rarely uses her personal account for anything other than White House and Trump campaign announcements.

Ivanka Trumps post of herself LARPing as Vanna White was immediately turned into a meme, with her cousins book, a burning cross, and various, ummm, marital aids photoshopped in place of the can.

Which is hilarious, of course, except that this is real life, and the White House is endorsing private companies who publicly support its agenda in the run up to the election.

As Democratic ethics lawyer Norm Eisen told ABC In the Trump administration, she will probably be rewarded. That bespeaks an ethical degradation for which the voters are about to punish the president severely.

No beans about it.

Like father, like daughter.

Ivanka Trumps social media posts about Goya beans provoke ethics backlash [ABC]

Elizabeth Dye (@5DollarFeminist) lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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Ivanka Trump Advises The President, Violates Ethics, And Still Finds Time To Cook Up A Tasty Can Of Beans For Her Family - Above the Law