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Showing Original Post only (View all)"The most important thing you learn is that we can never say another mean thing about Don Jr again." [View all]
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 didnt say if the nannys 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 Ivanas divorce from Trump. At one point Donald Trump sent a bodyguard over to Ivanas 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 Trumps end, and then 10 minutes later Donald Jr. was returned to her by the bodyguard. Ivana said that Trumps 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 Ivanas 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.
Another incident that Donald Trump Jr. endured as a kid occurred during Ivanas divorce from Trump. At one point Donald Trump sent a bodyguard over to Ivanas 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 Trumps end, and then 10 minutes later Donald Jr. was returned to her by the bodyguard. Ivana said that Trumps 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 Ivanas 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.
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