The last time I checked, Nordstrom is a privately-owned company. Therefore, they can do what they want and drop anyone’s product line if they feel the desire and need to do so.

Is Ivanka Trump taking a hit from this particular company because of her father? Probably so, but that is something that can happen when your father is the president of the United States of America and has such divisive views as he does.

It is the nature of the beast, and I am positive that she won’t be hurting financially because Nordstrom has dropped her line from their stores.

Jeff Swanson, Everett

Note from KBJ: This is a classic example of the straw-person fallacy. Who has argued that Nordstrom may not drop Ivanka Trump's product line? Of course it may, and nobody with any sense has said otherwise. But just as Nordstrom may drop her product line, the rest of us may choose no longer to shop at Nordstrom. We may also criticize Nordstrom, try to get our families and friends not to shop there, and hope that the company pays a steep price (in lost profits) for its petulance.