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WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out on Wednesday at the Nordstrom department store chain for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s accessories and clothing line, once again raising ethical questions about the relationship between his presidency and his family’s sprawling business interests.

Mr. Trump has already broken with tradition by singling out companies for criticism, like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, automakers and news organizations, sometimes causing gyrations in their stock prices and prompting debates about whether corporations would tailor their conduct to suit a bellicose president. But in those cases, his ire targeted government contracts, departing American jobs or news coverage — not his own family’s personal fortunes.

Six days after Nordstrom announced that, based on sales, it would no longer carry Ms. Trump’s products — a decision that prompted some Trump supporters to call for a boycott of the stores — the president took to Twitter to complain that “Ivanka has been treated so unfairly” by the company. He first posted the message from his personal account, and then re-sent it from his official White House account.

Last week, T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores sent a note to employees — a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times — telling them to throw away signs for Ivanka Trump products.

“Effective immediately, please remove all Ivanka Trump merchandise from features and mix into” the racks where most products hang, the note read. “All Ivanka Trump signs should be discarded.”

The instruction was to eliminate special displays for the merchandise, “not to remove it from the sales floor,” said Doreen Thompson, a spokeswoman for the TJX Companies, the retailers’ parent corporation.

Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 9 2017 07:29pm)

ivanka the rip off artist lost the only thing selling her line of any other rip off designer, a clean name. cut that in even 60% and you're out. :( :cry: :baby:

Quote (Voyaging @ Feb 10 2017 03:28am)

knew

But really, the president uses his official platform, his official POTUS Twitter account, to sabotage an independent business and you're mad about what they did to Ivanka? :lol:

Quote (Thor123422 @ Feb 9 2017 07:37pm)

Trump is a billionaire. Why would somebody so rich bother worrying about such small business affairs? This is obviously not what Trump is doing, and he doesn't care about his family's money at all. He wouldn't do petty shit to pad his retirement account with a slightly higher bank balance.