09-20-2016, 04:42 PM
(09-20-2016, 03:53 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Jr. has tweeted some alt right bs more than once.
He's nutty.
It was strange listening to him speak about how he and his siblings would run a blind trust of Trump's business to avoid conflict of interest for Donald J. should he be elected. Junior didn't seem to understand what a 'blind trust' entails and kept saying the kids wouldn't talk to Trump about his businesses at all; "trust me, believe me", he says.
Ivanka was doing an interview with Cosmo, presumably looking again to attract more women and millenials to Trump, when she cut short an interview. She wanted to focus on what she perceives as the greatness of the new childcare plan that she quickly threw together and presented with her father last week.
When the reporter asked Ivanka about her father's previous statements regarding how pregnancy was inconvenient for businesses, how he said he doesn't take care of his kids because that's his wife's job and his job is to fund it, etc... Ivanka told the reporter that she thought the reporter was bringing too much 'negativity' to the interview and she wasn't sure her father had ever said those things. He had said them alright and Ivanka seems to have trouble understanding that she's not always going to be heaped with unquestioned praise. Some of the facts she claimed in regards to her father's business practices and family/women's benefits also turned out to be inaccurate.
Unlike daughter Ivanka, wife Melania isn't talking about or on behalf of Donald Trump these days. Six or seven weeks ago, Donald Trump told the media, "believe me, she's got her old immigration papers totally in order and she's definitely gonna do a press conference in a couple of weeks". But, she's almost disappeared from public view since her plagiarism at the RNC, fake components of her biography were revealed, her old birther interviews in support of Donald Trump's batshit conspiracy theory resurfaced, and questions about her immigration history were raised.
No family is perfect and all politicians have family members who say and do things that shouldn't be held against the politicians personally. BUT, this is different in context. These family members are actual advisers, surrogates, and potential members of a presidential administration. They're not informed, qualified or well-suited to represent the American people when it comes to public policy, in my opinion.