(CNN) "Daddy, can I go with you?" That's the question President Trump says his 35-year-old daughter, Ivanka, posed to him before his trip this week to North Dakota, where he talked to a crowd about tax reform. "Yes," he says he told her, "you can." With that introduction, little Ivanka took the stage. Among the many confounding aspects of the Trump presidency has been the role of Ivanka, his elder, and clearly favored, daughter. (When's the last time you heard him talk about Tiffany, his daughter with ex-wife Marla Maples, never mind trot her out before a crowd of voters?) Ivanka and her husband are official White House advisors -- and two of the President's closest.Peggy Drexler: How much pull could we expect Ivanka Trump to have with a man who refers to himself as her "Daddy"?Drexler: By parading her in this way, Trump not only risks people not taking her, or women in general, seriously -- he does the same to himself.
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