US President Donald Trump has attacked the Nordstrom store chain because it took the fashion collection of his daughter Ivanka from the ...
US President Donald Trump has attacked the Nordstrom store chain because it took the fashion collection of his daughter Ivanka from the assortment. "My daughter Ivanka was treated so unfair by Nordstrom," wrote Trump on Twitter. "She is such a wonderful person - she always makes me do the right things!"
Trump was immediately criticized for this, because the message was sent by Trumps's own Twitter profile, but then also spread from the official US President's account (@POTUS = President of the United States). This account has been available to Trump only since the beginning of the campaign, it was created under predecessor Barack Obama and is not intended for private purposes.
"This is an abuse of the public office to the private benefit," said Richard Painter, former Ethics Officer in the government of President George W. Bush, the Wall Street Journal. It is also a misuse of power, because the message is clear - Nordstrom is thus declared to the "Persona non grata" of the trump administration.
President Libovitz of the nonprofit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has been fighting corruption in the US, criticized the fact that there had never been a US president before, who obviously took advantage of his power of office to the advantage of his own family Policy.
Trumps spokesman Sean Spicer later defended the president in the briefing of the White House vehemently: Trump has every right to stand by his family. Nordstrom's decision was clearly a direct attack on the President's policy, in particular his decree of a breakaway for people from seven majority Muslim countries.
Nordstrom share reacts with significant profits
Spicer ignored several statements from the group, which had justified his decision with low sales figures from the Ivanka Trumps collection. Nordstrom had emphasized that the move was not politically motivated. Each year about ten percent of the range would be exchanged depending on the sales and in this case it would have just met the mark of Ivanka Trump.
In the financial markets too, the Trumps attack on Nordstrom was the theme of the week. The share of the department store chain reacted with considerable profits to the criticism and went ultimately with a plus of a good four per cent from the US trade. This caused quite a lot of talk time with retailers, because the previous trump attacks on stock exchange listed companies had put pressure on the stock market.
Nordstrom's decision to pull out the Ivanka Trump collection followed boycott calls against traders selling products from the Trump family. Behind the appeals on the Internet under the hashtag "GrabYourWallet" (grab your purse) is an initiative by opponents of the US president. The clothing chains TJ Maxx and Marshalls were also targeted.
According to a report from the New York Times, TJX, the parent company, dismissed the employees in the shops last week to remove the signposts for Ivanka Trump's articles. The products would still be sold, said a spokesman. The 35-year-old Trump daughter had launched a line of jewelery in 2007, and since 2011 clothes and shoes have also been sold under her label. The businesswoman had been criticized for Trumps' election campaign because of controversial PR campaigns for her products.
