On May 18, White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump recorded a commencement speech for 2020 graduates of Wichita State University Tech. But plans for the president’s to speak to the graduates remotely were droppedafter her father, President Donald Trump, drew widespread condemnation for his militarized response to the George Floyd protests.
But Ivanka Trump released the video on Twitter anyway. In a devastating response, the progressive political action committee the Meidas Touch skewered the performance by combining the speech with footage of police violence against nonviolent protestors.
The Meidas Touch was founded in April by attorney Ben Meiselas and his two brothers. Meiselas represented football star Colin Kaepernick’s lawsuit against the National Football League; Kaepernick asserted that the NFL blocked him from playing as a way of punishing him for protesting against racism by taking a knee before games. Continue reading.