If Donald Trump was a huge disappointment to his father Fred (and Donald was), imagine how much of a disappointment his spawn from Trophy Wife #1 (Ivana) are to Donald Trump. Had he not been born to a financially successful father Trump would be hawking used cars on some tacky lot way off the main drag. His children from his first marriage would even be that. Ivanka could answer the phones maybe, but Don Jr. and Eric would be no more than lot attendants washing the cars.
However, some doofuses that are true dumbasses are lucky enough to be born to money. Trump himself at least possessed a certain amount of media savvy and the ability to sling enough bullshit to market himself. Sons Fredo 1 (Don Jr.) and Fredo 2 (Eric) don’t even have that. They got hired on at the Trump Org as a means of Trump telling Trophy Wife #1 ‘Neener Neener and f**k you! I own them now!’ after the divorce. They get a fancy office and make-work duties and a nice allowance/salary. And Trump would not trust either Fredo to manage so much as the ‘covfefe’ fund!
Still, they know which side their bread is buttered on or to be more pointedly nasty who pays them WAY more than they are worth. And that means at least trying to stand up and support their sugar-daddy. No matter how much they debase themselves. Or how stupid they look in the process. That brings me to a HuffPost article that caught my eye. It didn’t take long for anyone (including Fox News talking heads and lots of Republicans) to realize Trump was going down like the Hindenburg. If Don Jr. was watching he probably freaked and snorted too much cocaine. (Anyone check the ERs?) If he posted anything I haven’t seen it.
Well, Eric decided in true Fredo fashion to prove he was actually smart and he went on twitter/X to take a shot at Kamala Harris. For some reason I can’t copy the actual twitter post but the feed of Eric Trump@EricTrump said:
Kamala’s Strategy: Lots of generic talk about absolutely nothing…
Well, that went over exactly as you and any normal, reasonable person would expect. Badly. You’d think someone would have at some point sat Fredo 2/Eric down and explained some social media basics to him including the term “Ratio.” Or maybe people have tried but dumb as he looks he’s even dumber and simply doesn’t get it. I won’t bore you with all the rejoinders that immediately got sent his way last night and I’m sure there were tons of mocking responses in the hours that followed the debate.
Trump doesn’t need a Roy Cohn so much these days as a family member who can advocate on his behalf at least partially effectively. Onetime wannabe Princess Ivanka has checked out. SHE got tired of being mocked and seems to just want to enjoy all that ill-gotten Saudi money her hubby was paid. Don Jr. is… Don Jr. and even more worthless than Trump feared when he objected to his first born being named Don Jr. = the whole “What if he turns out to be a loser?’ comment that Junior will never live down. And Eric? He doesn’t even measure up to Don Jr.! Tiffaney sold her soul by going to work for the Trump Org but SHE seems to be staying out of all this. Barron has shown signs of wanting to get into the fray but Melania is I’m sure riding herd on him to keep his mouth shut.
It seems like Eric is the best Trump’s got. That’s an awfully pathetic thing to think about. But at least it’s entertaining.
Trump’s family book ends ‘dumb and dumber’ and the others, are all his creation and doing. If he had had his and his family tree ancestry and DNA researched, it’d surely be:
Knowing that bunch of inbreds, their family tree is all trunk with no branches!!
*smirk*
You should go easy on Qsay, Denis…….he’s under a great strain…..
……can you imagine how many times he has been subjected to wife Laura’s caterwauling CD 24/7……???
The humanity of it all….rite???
*smirk*
Denis, I’m not sure how valid your opening paragraph is. For starters, you’re making the assumption that “Donald Trump, Used Car Dealer” would have three children who would just hang around the old man and his business all that much. If the Trump dealership did well, then they might but, at the same time, they might only have worked for dad while they were in high school and then got the hell away from him after graduation. Who knows? The Eric and Don Junior of that universe might have been motivated to do some hard work and forge their own paths as adults. (That scenario improves vastly if that universe’s Donald Trump had a bad reputation as a car dealer–and not just if he were the stereotypical vile used car salesman–and the boys wanted to remove as much of that stench as possible.)
With Ivanka, she’d most likely spend her time looking for someone–anyone–who could get her out of the family. Sure, she might work the phones for daddy but her real job would be getting that MRS degree and, if hubby were financially secure enough (and I’d bet she’d be checking the credit rating of *every* prospective date), she’d even dump daddy and never look back on her life as a “Trump.” She’d revel in being “Mrs Who Ever.”
That is exactly what Ivomit did in this dimension as well….used daddykins for all she could squeeze out of him while hunting an enlarged checkbook so she could dump the Trumps once she got tired of playing White House.
The tRump dealership would have been selling Yugos.
You know, I think you have a point when it comes to the Fredo twinsters. They lived with mom, then went to college. Not that mom couldn’t have helped them get a decent start in life that took advantage of the privilege they’d been born into but ole dad beckoned with the fancy office and big salary for just playing at work – actual employees who knew shit were there to get the actual tasks done. Like the David Spade character was to Chris Farly’s in Tommy Boy.
But had ole dad been the sleaze used care lot owner (or manager or at least top salesman) I think you’re right. They’d have been GONE as soon as they were 18. Vanky is a question mark. Daddy’s girls who have daddums twisted around their little finger are hard to figure. In Vanky’s case if daddums could be enticed to keep her in a halfway decent car and slip her some fun money now and then she’d have stuck around. At least long enough to find a better sugar daddy then she too would have been gone. And Ivana would have dumped Trump as soon as the youngest was 18 and tried to start over.
What geta at me and what people have forgotten is the hostility between Don Senior and Junior during the latter’s teens and college years. Don Jr. knew about how the old man had treated mom including the rape. But when ole dad dangled the easy money it was “sorry about what he did to you mom but I’m outa here!’ What a piece of shit son! In that respect Junior is ever bit his father’s son.
Eric? Come in Eric. Eric are you there? Come in Eric, this is planet earth. Are you there and can you read us? Eric? Come in Eric this is planet earth.
I’m afraid we can’t reach him sir.
Maybe he’s an alien from another planet dropped off here to observe and report. Probably expected to get picked up and returned to his home planet years ago. However, from his messages his handlers thought ‘we don’t want THIS one back here’ and accidently on purpose deleted all evidence of Eric being sent here. So we’re stuck with him. Perhaps his wife is an experiment in humanoid robots that didn’t turn out as expected and they don’t want HER back either!