Twitter Reacts as Ivanka Trump Says She's Been Learning the Guitar During COVID-19 Pandemic

How has Ivanka Trump been spending her time at home during the novel coronavirus pandemic?

According to recent remarks, President Donald Trump's eldest daughter and senior adviser has been learning new skills, like playing the guitar.

"For a lot of us ... during this pandemic, we've reconnected to some of life's simple pleasures," Ivanka, 38, said during a campaign appearance on Monday near Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Board games, for example. We've dusted off all of ours, for sure."

"I took up playing guitar, because my husband was working very late nights," she continued. "I'd come home, after I'd put the kids to bed and after I went back online and finished my work, I'd be sitting there, and so I taught myself — or am teaching myself — how to play guitar."

In the question-and-answer session, Ivanka also touted what she called a "great American comeback," spurred, she argued, by the work of her father during his first term in office even as his administrations grapples with the damage from the ongoing pandemic.

“I think part of the reason you see the great American comeback starting to happen is because the foundation is so incredibly solid because of so much of the work that’s happened over the past three-and-a-half years,” Ivanka reportedly said.

While unemployment rates dropped in September, some parts of the country are still grappling with severe joblessness that coincided with the first reported U.S. cases of the coronavirus disease COVID-19, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures released this week.

Analysts say those numbers could point to a slowing recovery nationwide. And a recent study found that some eight million Americans have fallen into poverty due to the pandemic.

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Alex Wong/Getty Ivanka Trump tours a food distribution plant in Maryland in late May.

The virus, which data shows has infected more than 8 million people in the U.S. and killed more than 220,000, has become one of the defining issues of the presidential campaign: Democratic nominee Joe Biden has assailed Trump for his handling and contradictory messaging while Trump touts his early travel bans and work on ventilators and vaccines, arguing the blame ultimately rests with China.

Ivanka has been one of her father's most visible surrogates and not immune to the same pandemic criticism that has shadowed his campaign.

Twitter users immediately responded to her comments this week regarding her hobbies by calling her "tone deaf" and "out of touch."

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"So great for you," wrote one. " The rest of us have been taking care of our kids at home while we work and helping food banks distribute food. So glad you can relax and enjoy. You’re such an example."

"That’s cool, 24,000 New York City residents died," responded another.

Ivanka's Monday appearance in Michigan echoed remarks made early on in the pandemic, when she said she was learning to play guitar and studying Greek and Roman mythology during her free time away from the White House.

"It’s a unique time, but I’m trying to reframe all of it through through the lens of the joy of having this family connectivity even if it’s sometimes toxic, and you know, on weekends and now in the evenings where normally we would have had a work-related commitment or something else, a school function," she told Yahoo Finance in March. "That includes free online courses in Greek and Roman mythology, and learning to play guitar."

Ivanka hasn't spent all her time at home, though. In April, she and her family left Washington, D.C., despite a stay-at-home order against non-essential travel, to celebrate Passover at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.