唐納德·特朗普入主白宮已有一年，其商業化的做派所引發的道德挑戰也成為了世人矚目的焦點。但是在到訪海湖莊園和顯貴們預定華盛頓特朗普國際酒店之余，伊萬卡·特朗普在Twitter和Instagram上所發的照片卻為這位“公私不分”的公務員帶來了意想不到的后果。

究其原因，伊萬卡·特朗普身穿的大多都是其個人品牌的產品。當她身著自家公司的鞋品和服飾在新聞中亮相時，這位總統助理的凈財富便會水漲船高，這背后也有媒體的一份功勞。

《華爾街日報》和名人時尚網站Star Style所開展的調查顯示，從去年3月她開始擔任白宮顧問至11月期間，伊萬卡在其社交媒體賬號發布的官方活動出鏡照中，有68%的場合都穿著自家品牌的服飾、鞋品或其他產品。雖然這位第一女兒已委托其妹夫喬什·庫施勒（Josh Kushner）和妯娌妮可·梅爾（Nicole Meyer）打理公司的日常業務，但她仍是公司的受益人之一。因此，她的服飾選擇自然也就成了頗具爭議的話題。

《華爾街日報》概括了刊登伊萬卡照片的各大網站如何通過使用代理營銷鏈接，利用其服飾來賺錢。首先，伊萬卡會身著某件服飾現身公共場合拍照。然后，某些刊物，例如《每日郵報》，將發布這些照片，而且在注釋中提供引導讀者購買同款服飾的鏈接。這些鏈接被稱為代理鏈接。根據這一安排，電商零售公司通常會將一定比例的銷售額讓渡給出版商。（信息披露：Time, Inc.與其他眾多出版商一樣，通過使用其產品評論的代理鏈接來創造營收。請點擊此處查看TIME代理鏈接政策。）

專家們表示，這種利益沖突是可以避免的。為了完全消除這種不當現象，伊萬卡可以穿著其他品牌的服飾，或出售其業務。但這兩種做法似乎從財務上來講都不是什么好主意。雖然伊萬卡進駐白宮還不到一個月，但其公司的業績卻開始在2017年屢創新高。在2016年初至2017年7月之間，她從其信托那里至少獲得了1,260萬美元的收入，其中有600萬美元來自于其服裝業務。（財富中文網）

譯者：馮豐

A year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the ethical challenges of having a businessman president have come into focus. But beyond trips to Mar-a-Lago and dignitaries booking Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel, photos of Ivanka Trump posted to Twitter and Instagram show the unintended consequences public servants entangled with their private businesses.

That’s because most of what Ivanka Trump wears are her personal brand’s products, and when she makes news while wearing her company’s shoes or dresses, the assistant to the president increases her own net worth — and the media is complicit.

According to a study by the Wall Street Journal and celebrity-fashion website Star Style, Ivanka Trump wore her brand’s dresses, shoes, or other products in 68% of photos from official appearances posted to her social media accounts from when she became a White House adviser in March until November. Though the First Daughter has surrendered day-to-day control of the company to her brother-in-law Josh Kushner and sister-in-law Nicole Meyer, she still receives a share of its profits. That makes her clothing choices controversial.

The WSJ outlines how, through the use of affiliate marketing links, websites that publish photos of Ivanka are capitalizing on her outfits to make money. First, Ivanka will wear an item in public where she is photographed. Next, certain publications like The Daily Mail will publish the photos, with captions that include copy that directs readers to a link for buying the same clothes. Those links are called affiliate links, an arrangement in which the e-commerce retailer typically sends a percentage of the sale back to the publisher. (Disclosure: Time, Inc., like many other publishers, generates revenue through the use of affiliate links for its product reviews. Here is TIME’s affiliate link policy.)

There is a way around this conflict of interests, say experts. To completely remove the appearance of impropriety, Ivanka could either wear other clothes or sell her business — neither of which seem to be financially sound decisions. Not even a month into her work with the White House, Ivanka’s company began setting records in 2017. She had received at least $12.6 million from her trust between early 2016 and July 2017, $6 million of which came from her fashion line.