Ivanka Trump's embrace of nature sparks cries of hypocrisy

<span>Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP</span>
Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Ivanka Trump shared a series of pictures on social media over the weekend of herself, husband Jared Kushner and their children availing themselves of the natural wonders of Wyoming.

“Love. Wonder. Wander. Repeat,” the president’s daughter and adviser captioned in one photo, in front of a painterly backdrop.

The response to the photos, on the other hand, was not quite as generous of spirit, as various social media users piled on with a mix of attacks on her father’s poor environmental record in office and other policies.

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Love. Wonder. Wander. Repeat.

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In another photo posted to Twitter, Ivanka showed a lovely hike through the mountains. “Where the wild things are…” she captioned it, referencing the book about a spoiled child who lives in a fantasy land.

Critics on Twitter and Instagram were quick to point out the hypocrisy at work, as just last week her father’s administration moved to weaken protections for endangered animals. Ivanka is, after all, a top White House adviser to the president.

Ivanka’s brothers, Donald Jr and Eric Trump, are well known for their love of killing exotic big game animals.

Her father has gone on record multiple times sharing his belief that climate change is a hoax, among numerous other damaging policies for the environment, such as rolling back the clean power plan, making cuts to water protections, leaving the Paris climate agreement and promoting fossil fuels.

The flowers on the mountain do look pretty, though.

The president himself, who just yesterday joked about spoiling the natural beauty of Greenland with one of his monstrous buildings, shared a photo of the lovely couple this morning, writing “Two incredible people. I can’t believe they’re not working (few work harder)!”

That post did not go well either.

Another picture Ivanka posted of her two young children in bed was seized upon by critics, many of who pointed out how lucky they were to be together, unlike many of the thousands of families separated by her father’s immigration policies.