Ivanka Trump sat down with CBS This Morning to tape her first interview since announcing her new role at the White House—unpaid assistant to her dad, the president.
The show released a brief and tantalizingly absurd preview this afternoon in which Trump, a woman who claims to stand for paid leave and equal pay, is asked to respond to critics and SNL skits that have deemed her "complicit" for her position in an administration that has terrorized immigrants, undermined essential maternal health care, demonized reproductive healthcare choices, and poisoned our air and water, to name a few, in only eight weeks.
But Ivanka can't! She can't respond! Because she doesn't know what "complicit" means.
"If being complicit is wanting to, is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact than I'm complicit," she says. (But, like, that's not what complicit means.) "I don't know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing."
Reeeeally?
But the point is there is no point because the world is flat and Ivanka proved it when she literally concluded by saying, "I don't know what it means to be complicit."
Thankfully, in these upside-down times, Merriam-Webster is here to help:
