The ongoing battle between the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts got political on Friday — with first daughters Chelsea Clinton and Barbara Pierce Bush promising to guest-speak at this year’s “G.I.R.L. 2017” conference in October.
Scouting’s boys-against-girls war was revealed Thursday by BuzzFeed News, which obtained a letter in which the Girl Scouts accused the Boy Scouts of trying to poach girls in a “covert” cross-gender recruiting campaign.
Now, both first daughters have lined up with the Girl Scouts. They’ll speak in Columbus, Ohio, at what the Girls Scouts are billing as “the largest girl-led event in the world,” the organization announced of the Oct. 6-8 confab.
Their dads, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, have both made veiled criticisms of President Trump, despite hailing from opposite sides of the political aisle.
President Bush was quoted commenting, “That was some weird s–t” after listening to Trump’s “American carnage” inaugural address, and has since then made statements supporting the press and globalism, two of Trump’s favorite targets.
President Clinton has sniffed that Trump “doesn’t know much.”
Meanwhile, Trump himself has aligned himself with the Boy Scouts.
Trump was a guest speaker at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia on July 24 — where he took a jab at former President Barack Obama and regaled Scouts with the story of how he won the 2016 presidential election.
For the October Girl Scouts conference, Clinton will lead a discussion called, “A Conversation with Chelsea Clinton and 2017 National Young Women of Distinction,” in which she will discuss how girls can take action to change the world, a spokeswoman said.
Bush will interview leading women in business and politics — including former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, author and tech entrepreneur — for a “Risk Taker” panel.