Trump complains about Nordstrom dropping his daughter's clothing line

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.


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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.

Mr. Trump’s complaint also raised
questions about how he might handle
the moves of numerous other
companies as their relationships with
Trump brands change. The large
national discount retailers T. J. Maxx
and Marshalls, and Neiman Marcus, the
luxury department store, for example,
have recently moved away from their
ties to Ms. Trump’s products.
Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump’s press
secretary, said the president’s tweet
was not about business but about “an
attack on his daughter.”