Ivanka Trump slammed online after saying she doesn't know what 'complicit' means
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning tweeted a preview of an interview with Ivanka Trump. In the clip, the president's daughter responds to accusations that she's "complicit":
NEW: Critics accuse @IvankaTrump of being "complicit." She responds, tomorrow on @CBSThisMorning. PREVIEW: https://t.co/uuUKCN8OuApic.twitter.com/ux43afjsm4
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) April 4, 2017
"If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit. 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," she said.
Trump continued, "So I hope to make a positive impact. I don't know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father's administration is the success that I know it will be."
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Social media stirred after Trump admitted to not knowing what "complicit" means. Merriam-Webster noticed an increase in searches for the word, and tweeted out its definition:
📈'Complicit' is trending after Ivanka Trump told CBS "I don’t know what it means to be complicit." https://t.co/qE6UcB8pUz
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 4, 2017
The dictionary's account also noticed that searches for the word spiked in March:
📈'Complicit' also trended in March. We wrote about it then. https://t.co/HEqWBltPUc
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 4, 2017
Merriam-Webster wrote about "complicit" last month after a Saturday Night Live sketch used the word as the name of Ivanka Trump's fragrance:
The full CBS This Morning interview with Ivanka Trump airs on Wednesday.
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