Ivanka Trump Gets Her UNPAID Intern To Write About How To Survive Without Money (VIDEO)

A blogpost written last month by Ivanka Trump’s unpaid copy intern, Quincy Bulin, is setting Twitter on fire. The post is called How to Survive as an Unpaid Intern, and offers seasoned advice from Bulin and her fellow unpaid interns,

“With this being my third unpaid summer in New York City, I’ve learned a few tricks, as have the other interns at Ivanka Trump HQ.”

The blogpost is well-intentioned and sincere in itself, even though, as pointed out by media such as The Daily Dot, it misses the mark. New York City is one of the most expensive cities in the world. An unpaid internship in New York is a luxury reserved almost exclusively for those with families who can offer a place to stay, or help out with the rent.

Therefore it’s somewhat ironic to have Ivanka Trump, daughter of billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump, publish advice on how to survive as an unpaid intern. How could she possibly know anything about the financial strains of surviving an unpaid internship without family support herself? And why is she not paying her interns?

Yesterday it went from bad to worse. IvankaTrump.com tweeted out the post with the hashtag ‪#nomoneynoproblems, cementing the cluelessness of how tone-deaf a post like that appears in the first place, coming from a billionaire daughter.

Twitter users were quick to make fun of it, offering further survival advice like eating garbage and jumping turnstiles:

Others were insulted by her ignorance or felt alienated as working women:

https://twitter.com/eastcoastkto/status/766746795045167105

 

After all, IvankaTrump.com promotes itself as the

“ultimate destination for ‪#WomenWhoWork with content designed to inspire & empower women working, at all aspects of their lives.”

The tone-deafness is slightly disturbing in the presidential context. Whoever has been wondering how Donald Trump can possibly represent women, first generation Americans, minorities, and the poor from his privileged, often racist and misogynistic perspective, may want to turn the worry up a notch when seeing his daughter’s incapability of understanding how provocative her post may appear to interns who truly have to fend for themselves.

As for the intern, Quincy Bulin, who wrote the post, the media reaction may offer her some insight of how the larger context of her career as a copy writer will work, insights perhaps not offered at writing camp. Or maybe she didn’t pay enough attention.

The image is from her Facebook page, titled

“what we do at writing camp.”

”what we do at writing camp.”
”what we do at writing camp.” Picture from Facebook/Quincy Bulin.

Featured image from Twitter/Ivanka Trump.