Ivanka Busts Up With Dad Over Inauguration Invite — She Tells Him She Needs To Save ‘Her Political Career’

Delusional thinking is baked into the DNA of the Trumps. It comes from several generations on the take, getting away with murder. They truly do believe that they’re masters of the universe. The Daily Mail has a piece up from a “White House insider” who reports that Ivanka intends to go to the Inauguration, despite Daddy saying that it’s an “insult” that she would even want to engage “with the crooks who are trying to bring me down.” But Ivanka insists on going, because she believes “she has to protect her own political aspirations.”

And tensions remain high in the final days of Trump’s presidency, as our source says the White House has been ‘dubbed a circus on steroids with Trump’s kids desperately vying for control and staff members walking on pins and needles.’

‘Don Jr. and Ivanka talk over each other, which is nothing new, just escalated to the nth degree,’ they say.

The source adds that Ivanka was looking to attend the inauguration because she ‘wants to be [her father’s] voice and they owe it to the people.’

Aren’t we blessed that Lady Ivanka is concerned about what is owed to the people, noblesse oblige and all that. I am touched. Aren’t you?

Bess Levin at Vanity Fair gives us her take.

When Donald Trump was improbably elected president in 2016, his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were among the last people on earth one would consider qualified to work in the White House advising the leader of the free world. But being Trumps and Trumps by marriage, the duo obviously saw themselves as eminently equipped for the jobs, thanks to inflated professional titles given to them by their fathers over the years and chart-topping delusions of grandeur. As Michael Wolff reported in Fire and Fury, though friends warned Javanka of the risks of getting into politics, “balancing risk against reward,” they “decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she’d be the one to run for president. The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.” (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when the couple had a serious conversation deciding—as though it was actually a possibility—that she would be the one to ascend to the Oval Office. “It’ll be me. I’ll be the president,” we assume the first daughter said in her whisper voice, touching Jared’s face in a gentle way so as to not break it.)

Of course, out here on planet earth, Ivanka was never, ever going to be president, not even if Trump turned out to be only one quarter of the unhinged sociopath the world has been forced to endure the last four years. And now that he’s incited a fascist mob to attack the Capitol and overturn the results of a free and fair election, the first daughter’s chances are about as likely as her father appearing on 60 Minutes this Sunday to tell the nation that he realizes the error of his ways and wishes he could take it all back.

The Trumps, though, have never had a firm grasp on reality, an obviously inherited trait that did not skip a generation and was passed down from father to daughter. While Ivanka appears to understand that the insurrection situation is not ideal for her brand—hence her furious attempts at damage control, including the decision to delete her tweet calling the violent mob “American patriots,” the first daughter still seemingly believes that she can salvage this whole thing and that the unintentionally hilarious plan she struck with Jared is still on track. According to the Daily Mail, Princess Purses had plans to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 in an effort to “save her reputation” and her “promising political career,” which she believes is a real thing that exists.

The report goes on to claim that Trump told his daughter it would be “an insult that she would even want to engage with the crooks [who] are trying to bring him down,” which checks out, and that he supposedly told her that “her presence at the inauguration will cost her thousands of supporters and would be the worst decision she could ever make.” Ivanka, according to the story, believed that attending the inauguration would come across as “being a good sport and [would] gain [her] future supporters.” According to a Daily Mail source, Ivanka made clear she “has to protect her own political aspirations.”

You know something? The word “batshit” is the new “unprecedented.” It’s totally overused these days, for the simple fact that the behavior that it describes is now the plain order of the day. Poor Batshit was last seen staggering around in the Rose Garden, begging reporters to find some other synonym to describe Trump world before he collapsed outright. We don’t blame him. He was tucked away safely in the Urban Dictionary and hasn’t been called forth much at all anymore since Michelle Bachmann left the political scene and found her perfect niche in the evangelical wingnut corner of the right-wing sky, where prosperity consciousness grifter Kenneth Copeland told her that she was “annointed by God to be president” in 2012 but “lazy Christians messed it up.” But then Strikeforce Rudy and the Capitol riot came on the scene and Batshit hasn’t had a moment’s rest. He’s now hallucinating from sleep deprivation and near psychosis. We know exactly how he feels.

Meanwhile, while Lady Ivanka decides what to wear for her photo op at the Inauguration shindig, U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin said that any impression that prosecutors have mostly  charged misdemeanor Capitol trespassing and D.C. curfew offenses is misleading.

They said the cases are only the beginning and that U.S. authorities are investigating everything including the plundering of congressional offices and digital devices, assaults on law enforcement officers, and theft of national security and defense information, in addition to felony murder and excessive use of force.

“The gamut of cases is mind-blowing,” Sherwin said.