The first daughter said she only wants to be judged on the policy issues she has decided to tackle herself, like gender equality in the workplace.

It seems to me there were some other policy meetings she sat in on as well. Do those not count? It seems we were forever hearing from Ivanka-friendly sources of all the times she tried to moderate Papa Garbage Fire—I presume we can safely discard all those?

All right, what great strides in gender equality, subsection the workforce, can we expect?

Anything? Or, after this too is met with a new Trump Justice Department directive that enforcement of gender equality laws and policies will be going onto the same scrap heap as the rest of American civil rights protections? What new outcome can we look forward to from this new policy front, other than an executive order stating that presidents are now able to enter any dressing rooms they see fit?

Ivanka Trump had two paths to choose when her father put his hand on the little book on inauguration day: She could be a presidential daughter, or she could be a member of a presidential administration.

She chose. And when the administration has achieved nothing but chaos and intentional malevolence, people are going to question her competence and motives along with those of everyone else. It's not as life-altering an experience as being barred from asylum in this country, being required to leave it, being banned from the military, or wondering if the health insurance that keeps you alive will still be there six or 12 or 18 months from now. But you can see how it would be stressful for those who considered such things unfair.