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A fresh Trump tell-all will soon be hitting bookstores (or whatever online retailer giant you prefer). This book will serve up the salacious details of the inside dealings of the Trump family before and after the election. An excerpt from Born Trump: Inside Americas First Family has already been published in Vanity Fair, the alma mater of author Emily Jane Fox where she made her bones as a staff writer.
Fox writes, for instance, that none of the older Trump children really expected their father to win the election; they also thought sooner than later, theyd be back to hocking his latest business deal or resuscitating a fashion line which was left out to dry during the campaign season. Eric and Donald Jr. were looking forward to the opening of a Trump Hotel in D.C.; Ivanka submitted the manuscript for her book Women Who Work to her publisher. The publisher reportedly advised her to breathe life into the book (to make her seem like she had a pulse, one source close to the issue said).
However, after Donald Trump surprised the entire world by winning the election (arguably the greatest political upset in American history), the Trump kids shelved their other plans. One of the first tasks awaiting the Trump clan was planning for the inauguration. Melania, whos recently all but disappeared from public life, was reluctant to engage in the spectacle of a grand parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Ivanka, Trumps first and favorite daughter, couldnt wait to have her princess moment.
I told her its an inauguration, not a coronation, one of Ivankas friends told her. The sentiment was that Americans wanted a royal family.
The Trumps have somewhat fancied themselves as a modern version of the Kennedys, Fox writes in Born Trump, but the inauguration brought to mind the dynamic of another sort of American first family: the Kardashians. The Trump kids had become famous, in some ways, simply for being famousa preternatural and occasionally nauseating talent that they learned from their father.
https://www.truthexam.com/2018/07/ivanka-feels-the-trumps-are-the-us-equivalent-of-uks-royal-family-and-she-wanted-her-princess-moment/
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Start flying helicopter in a war zone. When ivanka starts caring for something besides herself and money. They still would not come close to having the class of the royal family.
Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)public service are somewhere between nil and none.
WhiteTara
(29,705 posts)you gave them!
Raster
(20,998 posts)... taking care of themselves! Between all four of them, they DO NOT have one public service bone in their bodies.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This. They are a selfish, money-grubbing, disgusting lot.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)that would be a good first step on the way to becoming royal.
Trumps being perceived as royalty?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)A royal pain in the ass.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is basically only symbolic in power.
I don't see the Queen out there attacking people on Twitter, either.
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts) Born To Be King, right now. Surprising how the Press mistreated him for years.
His charities are endless. He is working on getting young people in Wales into training and jobs. The unemployment in the young or 3 out of 4.
The Author shows what a happy relationship Charles and Camilla have.
I have always felt he was abused by the Press and apparently mentally abused by his father.
Charles has a loving relationship with his Sons,DIL and Grandson.
This is one book worth reading. The Author Is Catherine Mayor.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)He should also be focusing on letting people in Wales afford housing in Wales. The market has skyrocketed in the past few years due to pensioners from other parts of the UK wanting to buy retirement properties, thus forcing out local ownership.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)barbtries
(28,789 posts)are as sociopathic, greedy, and free from empathy as their father. #TrumpCrimeFamily
the other 2 are likely to end up the same imo
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)without all the class, dedication to public service, patriotism and all that, of course.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Lavish vacations, trips, borrowing money to clear their debts.
I knew Jack Kennedy and Sir you are no Kennedy! I think that was said to Dan Quail, remember?
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)I recognized from the very beginning that the Trumps had the "look" of wanting to be a dynasty.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Would not accept them.
Maybe the Grifters would be a better name. Uncouth Social Climbers.
thucythucy
(8,048 posts)Joe Jr. gave his life during WWII flying a highly dangerous mission for which he volunteered.
JFK went to a private doctor, not to get out of military service, but to get in. With his genuine disabilities he could easily have obtained a medical deferment, instead he went doctor shopping until he found one willing to say he was fit for service. And then, of course, became a hero saving the crew of PT 109 after the Japanese rammed and sank his boat.
Eunice was instrumental in starting Special Olympics, and the Kennedys in general have been champions of disability rights, including Ted Kennedy's support of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the ADA, and a hundred other legislative milestones for civil, disability, and human rights.
What has ANY Trump done besides sponge off honest people, shirk public service, and inject racism and divisiveness into our culture?
The Trump family isn't "royalty." It's a criminal enterprise.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)I love the inspiration offered by the Kennedy family. Jack and Bobby, we miss you so much!
bedazzled
(1,761 posts)physical attractiveness also .... and dignity. the list of their shortcomings seems never ending
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)In no way, shape or form are they anything like the Kennedys. They are nothing but a classless, vulgar pack of grifters who are only out for themselves.
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)Mainly because of the aura of mystique and nostalgia that built up around them over the years. I think that JFK's policies, had he lived, would have led to as big a mess in Vietnam as Johnson's, and Jackie's whispy little voice had a nails-on-slate effect on me. But none of the Trumps is fit to scrub their garbage cans, much less mention themselves in the same breath. And I can't imagine any of the Trumps inspiring young Americans to devote a portion of their lives to serving their fellow humans a la the Peace Corps, or arguing for a project to put people on the moon and bring them back alive within a decade, or promoting a sense that the White House belongs to the American people, or any of the other positive things the Kennedys did. The only thing the Trump kids have in common with the Kennedy children is that Ivanka wants a pony, too.
(I read an article yesterday that pointed out that, unlike her predecessors, Melania hasn't invited any artists to perform at the White House - something that she could do even with her reluctance to talk in public. Nancy Reagan seems to hold the record for most and most eclectic choices here.)
Moostache
(9,895 posts)FUCK ALL OF YOU TRUMPS!
Seriously, I don't care if they all die tomorrow, do u?
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...devoutly to be wished."
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)considering they reside in Opposite World, the Kennedy analogy may fit. All the foibles none of the class.
gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)in anticipation!
jalan48
(13,863 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)The "Aristocrats"!!!
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)Love the allusion. And because the Trumps ARE a joke, it's perfect.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Not many would understand the joke. It's the punch line to one of the filthiest long-running jokes in comedy. Some say that Bob Saget tells the best version - thanks!
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)but that's just me.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)2. Is there competition about who is the true FLOTUS b/n Ivanka and Melania?
3. Does Ivanka believe her "work experience" at the WH qualifies her to run herself in the future?
4. In the tradition of "King Lear", are "the boys" waiting for their moment to de-throne "The Princess"?
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...a fitting appellation.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)incessantly?
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...getting assassinated (2), and vision for the good of the country.
They were rich, but it was not all about them. They had (and have) more class than any of the vulgar Trumps could ever dream of. And some how they ended up caring more about humanity.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)w getting handsy w his daughter. Appalling that the "christians" of America overlook so much. Glad we can wash two things away in two months...republican majorities and christian self-righteousness.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Dorn
(523 posts)The world has progressed beyond kings, we in the US should grow up and stop treating the president like something other than the head of state.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)(had to put it down for awhile, too much Trump makes me queasy), and it's a pretty interesting description of a seriously fucked-up family (of course they'd be fucked up; how could they not be?). The Trump kids are poster children for the Stockholm Syndrome. And it would seem that Don Jr. and not Eric is actually the dumb one, or at least the dumber one, and the most pathetic - constantly trying to get his evil, narcissistic father to love him and pay attention to him. It's interesting but in a horrible, depressing way, considering where these pitiful, damaged nitwits are.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Do any of them have any redeeming qualities at all? Why do they seem so estranged from their mother?
eShirl
(18,490 posts)tape.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)djacq
(1,633 posts)Bonanno.
Colombo.
Gambino.
Genovese.
Lucchese.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)OFF WITH THE KING'S HEAD
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)Czar, Czarina, Czarvina and of course the Czarevich