"The most important thing you learn is that we can never say another mean thing about Don Jr again."

[kpete]

As a toddler, Don Jr. broke his leg due to a negligent babysitter. Then one day when Ivana was out of town, he and Eric called hysterically to report they had found their nanny unconscious in the basement. (She died.)

According to the Times, the “book is supposed to be about good parenting,” but the article suggests for Donald Trump Jr. that “it sounds like the worst childhood ever.” Ivana shares in her book how a young Donald Jr. and Eric called Ivana one day “hysterical” while she was out of town. The kids found their nanny unconscious in the basement. That nanny died, writes the New York Times. They didn’t say if the nanny’s death was the result of this particular event, but they did say she was deceased.

Another incident that Donald Trump Jr. endured as a kid occurred during Ivana’s divorce from Trump. At one point Donald Trump sent a bodyguard over to Ivana’s house to get Donald Jr. with Trump Senior telling his soon-to-be ex that he is taking his son and raising him.


Ivana conveys in her book that she told Trump Sr., who was adamant at keeping Donald Jr. with him, “O.K., keep him. I have two other kids to raise.” She looked at her response as basically calling his bluff.

She said there was total silence on Trump’s end, and then 10 minutes later Donald Jr. was returned to her by the bodyguard. Ivana said that Trump’s attempt at taking Donald Jr. was “a tactic to upset me.” The Times reports that this incident happened around that time that Donald Jr. stopped talking to his dad and he was “shipped to boarding school.”

Gail Collins, who wrote about Ivana’s book Raising Trump as an opinion piece in the New York Times, conveyed how she can now point out an important thought to walk away with from those 293 pages. She said the “most important thing you learn is that we can never say another mean thing about Donald Jr. again. Really, it sounds like the worst childhood ever.”

MORE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/ivana-ivanka-trump-book.html?mtrref=www.balloon-juice.com&gwh=FC9B89F0AD4EC7C0C3CBD3D9AECD307A&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

[Ilsa]

1. Oh please.

His parents were crappy. Join the club. He's an asshole, so yeah, we can say mean things about him and the rest of the brood, but not Banker or Borrower or whatever the youngest is called.

[lapucelle]

2. I'm laughing out loud.

This entire family blurts out the most appalling stuff because they think they're normal.

[Brother Buzz]

7. No, they think they are more normal then normal.

and that's abnormal.

[delisen]

3. Poor Nanny. does not even merit

a few words about why she was unconscious.

[delisen]

4. Who raised the children?

The boarding schools, the nannies, the help...

[dflprincess]

10. And they all did a lousy job.

Though think how much worse they would be if they'd been left with their parents.

[delisen]

14. You made me laugh.

[dflprincess]

15. Glad I did!

Laughing is good and we need it now more than ever.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Boarding schools are warehouses for yuppie larvae nt

[Angry Dragon]

23. yuppie larvae............never heard that before

[Wounded Bear]

29. "yuppie larvae............never heard that before"

Ghostbusters II.

[mahina]

28. I went to boarding school from 10th grade on.

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It was awesome.

I had no idea any of that existed.

There were lots of black and Latino kids, and kids from poor families, on scholarships. We were lower middle class on a fat day and union supporters to this day.

And he would have gotten his ass kicked by the rich ones!

[magicarpet]

17. Manged wolves and rabid crazed coyotes

[delisen]

20. Ah, the Feral Trumps

[Crash2Parties]

21. And even that's not clear.

The sons paid tribute to their "irish nannies"
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/donald-trump-s-sons-pay-tribute-to-the-irish-nannies-who-raised-them

And yet, Donald Jr had a Serbian nanny until he was 8 or so
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4058416/Serbian-nanny-Trump-children-1980s-attended-military-academy-carried-gun-dies-aged-85-Belgrade.html

[lapucelle]

5. "I've already got two. You can have this one."

"What's your return policy?"

[Solly Mack]

6. Fart noises

[Bob Loblaw]

8. Some people are saying,

"The nanny was pushed". That's what I've heard anyway.

[dflprincess]

9. It has been said...

Though I wouldn't be surprised given this family.

[rzemanfl]

11. Some people say they did it on a dare. That's what some people say. n/t

[treestar]

13. He can afford therapy

Why do these asses think we should feel bad for them?

[nolabear]

18. Was the nanny at the bottom of a flight of stairs?

Just wondering...

[world wide wally]

19. It is quite common for abusive parents to raise abusive children.

Sad, but this is what they learn

[tanyev]

22. Any info on what has happened to Meredith McIver?

She seems to have disappeared as suddenly as she appeared.

[Angry Dragon]

24. found this

https://www.snopes.com/meredith-mciver-exists/

[tanyev]

25. It's just so weird that someone who had a career as a ballet dancer in New York followed by years

of working for the Trump family would be almost nonexistent online.

[dewsgirl]

26. Seriously, what are the circumstances around this

Nanny's death? Crazy bunch of psychopaths.

[Maeve]

27. "Sorry, kid, your dad doesn't really want you to live with him"

"It was just to piss off your mom." Good lord, the message that sends to a kid...