So, Ivanka and Jr. aren't attending the festivities today.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

This go-around the president is getting his way, with what he is calling a “Salute to America.” Along with the tanks, Blue Angels, a B-2 stealth bomber, and F-18 fighter jets, Air Force One will zigzag across the sky over Washington, D.C., before a fireworks display lights it up. Trump will make a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial, for which the White House has been handing out premium tickets to important donors and members of the political class. There were reportedly even talks with National Park Service officials about projecting an image of Apollo 11 onto the Washington Monument for the evening—which would expressly go against federal policies meant to preserve and honor the monument’s original form.

For all the pomp and personal planning the president put into his pet project, the president’s children seem to be heading elsewhere. According to several people familiar with the family’s plans, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are spending the holiday weekend in the Hamptons, on Long Island, where they are expected to make an appearance at Lally Weymouth’s annual party, which they have attended in the past. Don Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, will also be in the Hamptons, according to these people, rather than beside Trump as he Salutes America.

That is surprising.

[imanamerican63]

1. Ivanka is going to be at an awkward place just like she was at the G20!

[Meadowoak]

2. She is probably busy baking a cake with a file in it, just in case.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Lally Weymouth is the eldest child of Katherine and Phil Graham of the WaPo.