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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:42 AM Jun 2018

Vanessa Trump: I'm Sending My Kids To Summer Camp



Marinara heiress Vanessa Trump, the estranged wife of Donald Trump Jr., just bragged on Twitter about sending her five children to “summer camp.”

Her tweet is being bombarded with replies that call her “tone deaf” and accuse her of deliberating trolling liberals who are upset about her (for the moment) father-in-law’s policy of holding migrant children in cages.

Several high-profile right wingers have publicly compared the DOJ’s detention centers to summer camps, among them hate group leader Tony Perkins and Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham.

UPDATE: Vanessa Trump deleted the tweet before I could even finish this post and provide some of the replies


[link:http://www.joemygod.com/2018/06/20/vanessa-trump-im-sending-my-kids-to-summer-camp/|

At least she saw sense - but how the hell can you be so tome deaf????


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Grammy23

(5,815 posts)
1. Hmmm, I didn't realize she was shipping them off
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:45 AM
Jun 2018

to Texas for their “summer camp” experience. They should have plenty to tell mom and dad when they get back. Huh?

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
2. I'm certainly not defending her but this is such the wrong attack to make
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:47 AM
Jun 2018

Because all it does is make a lot of other parents that are sending their kids off to summer camp retreat from talking about it and other conversations.

Plus, she's nine-months separated from Don Jr.

I know on my FB feed there's a lot of talk with parents prepping kids for various summer activities. Should they all be shouted at for being tone deaf?

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
3. No, only the ones with high visibility who are connected to Trump.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:52 AM
Jun 2018

And the trigger word was "camp," not various other summer activities.

FSogol

(45,529 posts)
6. I went to Scout Camp every summer. So did my sons.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:25 AM
Jun 2018

They also went to band camp, sports camp, basketball camp, and computer camp. It's a good way for suburban/urban parents to get the kids out of the house.

While she might be tone deaf, "Camp" isn't a trigger word.

tblue37

(65,490 posts)
5. Ivanka, Paul Ryan, Jeff Flake--they keep posting these bizarrely tone deaf
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:22 AM
Jun 2018

tweets and FB posts. And now Vanessa.

They just can't help being jerks.

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
8. The difference being that the three you mentions are all either people voted into office
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:27 AM
Jun 2018

or paid by the government.

The object of this particular outrage is someone that's divorcing the son of the President and left them nine months ago.

It just feels like a bad angle to take when there are so many legitimate things to go after.

tblue37

(65,490 posts)
9. Still tone deaf, considering Laura Ingram's summer camp comment about the
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:29 AM
Jun 2018

kiddie concentration camps in Texas.

tblue37

(65,490 posts)
11. No. She is still a Trump, so she has to know her posts will be associated with Trump.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:39 AM
Jun 2018

It's the summer camp reference after what Ingram said that is troubling.

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)
12. Why is is troubling?
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 11:40 AM
Jun 2018

Again, she has no influence anywhere in regard to this. She, like millions of other mothers and fathers, are talking about summer camp.

Why with HER is it troubling?

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