We’re told that the family who preys together stays together. Apparently that’s not true of the Trumps. Oh yes, they prey and they pretend to pray, even, but at the end of the day, it’s all baloney. The sun is setting on the east coast at the time of this writing and the Trump family hasn’t exactly been enthusing all day about the 77th birthday of its patriarch, shall we leave it at that?
Here’s what Ivanka had to say
Major Succession vibes.
— Defund the rich (@rfordham811) June 14, 2023
I wish him the happiness he deserves, too, which is cooling his heels in a federal penitentiary, this coming year and many more years to come. Bess Levin, Vanity Fair:
Given that there’s a nonzero chance her father will be sentenced to time in prison during this or the next year around the sun, writing that she hopes he gets the happiness he deserves sounds less like a birthday wish and more like a warning from the Mafia. But hey, maybe she meant it sincerely! It’s not as though the former first daughter won’t even be seen in public with the guy.
In other birthday messages, Donald Trump Jr. posted a simple “Happy Birthday!!! #birthday” on Instagram, while his fiancée wrote, “Happy Birthday to our fearless America First warrior, who always stands up for you, President Donald J. Trump!” Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, reposted this cringeworthy message from former Trump cabinet member Ben Carson…
Talk about things you can’t unsee. This will haunt my dreams for many moons to come.
And as to Melania, she’s making the Sphinx look like Chatty Kathy these days.
After all, as People reports, she has “lived with other public humiliation for many years, including the sex scandals.” And she’s not about to let her husband’s problems become her problems. “Melania…prefers to go about her business,” a person familiar with the matter told the outlet, adding that the former first lady will not be dragged down. “She continues moving ahead,” the person said.
And while no one would have expected the famously mum Mel (who declined to appear at both of her husband’s arraignments) to defend him publicly, the reason most recently cited for her current silence is pretty incredible: She apparently knows how bad this case looks for Trump.
“Although her husband feels the legal issues are witch hunts, she prefers to stay away from making many comments as some of the recent evidence, especially in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, is quite damaging,” a source told People, adding that the former first lady believes, based on the evidence, that Trump “has a rough road ahead.” (Melania, of course, is not alone in her thinking. After the federal indictment against Trump came out, his former attorney general, Bill Barr, called the charges “very, very damning,” adding: “If even half of it is true, then he’s toast.”
Meanwhile, at least one Fox News legal analyst has predicted Trump is looking at a “terminal” prison sentence. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges on Tuesday, and not guilty to the Manhattan DA’s charges in April.)
As for a potential plea deal, a source “with knowledge about Melania’s frame of mind” suggested that Trump’s wife does not think think the presidential candidate should go there. “She wants his legal team to fight this to the end and hopefully end the fight,” this person said. Whether “the end” results in her spouse being moved into a federal penitentiary, of course, remains unclear; also unclear is whether or not Melania would be bothered by such an outcome. Last week, Page Six reported that a source said, “Melania knows what she signed up for. She is in a wait-and-see position. He’ll either be in prison or be president. Or both.”
Or dead. Or disgraced. Or both.
This is a transactional “family” folks and two of the biggest transactions makers, Ivanka and Melania, are not amused, shall we say, by these newest developments. They’re both looking out for number one, make no mistake.
Pro tip, Mel: Take Barron, divorce Trump and have your new hubby adopt him, before Donald does for the Trump name what Adolf did to Hitler.
Hey. Isn’t that the lady who mysteriously ‘fell’ down the stairs and was dumped into a hole at the golf course, along with ‘his’ papers? I don’t celebrate Hitler’s birthday. I celebrate the day that basterd put a slug into his evil brain. It isn’t time to celebrate yet.
Ivanka is making damned sure she doesn’t get splattered with shit flung by her shit gibbon father. I don’t think she is anywhere near as bright as folks say but she is brighter than her father and brothers so she will keep her distance from this one. Remember, everyone can, and maybe will, be screaming “but her emails” about her digital sloppiness while her daddy was squatting in the w.h.
Pretty sure Mellie is weighing her options as she likely has ever since she met the idiot. She may or may not have renegotiated her pre-nup but there is always the biography option that, unless I am gauging the American public wrong (I’m not), will be salacious enough to sell well: we are that kind of country. As for divorcing trump and remarrying: only if she can do better and it isn’t as if she is young any more. Wealthy men can do much better than her and get much younger, prettier, and classier ladies. I don’t think the remarrying option is as available as Ursula thinks. I mean, who in the hell would want sloppy seconds (10ths, 11ths…) when the last fuck was mushroom dick. That is about as gross as things can get. I wouldn’t hit that for anything.
I think your suggestion Ivanka’s message might have been snark is a real possibility. After all, if you remember Trump thought Mattis’ resignation letter was nice, and had to be told that it was a massive send-up of him! No longer wannabe Princess Ivanka IS P.O.d at daddums. If he’d thrown tantrums after the election, then only grumbled after the EC met, maybe one or two tweets a day of “people say” complaining about fraud but gave his folks the greenlight to use the time left to try and rescue some of the transition, then sulked in FL for a while she might have partially reingrated herself into her old social life. Might have. But daddums made in impossible for “Jarvanka” to try and be part of the upcocoming “Masters of the Universe” circle in NYC. What’s worse for them is the second tier (by NYC elite’s thinking) Miami version wants nothing to do with them either!
Given all that I can easily believe when she wrote the happiness you deserve she did actually mean “you filthy minded a-hole – you’ve made it impossible for me to be a social queen and influencer. Even down here in second rate FL so you DESERVE to rot in prison”
In the war on Trump, I’m waiting for D-Day, or in this case J-Day. When it lands, it will make everything else look like a side show.
Speaking of war, there’s a couple of statistics that stick in my head.
From Shelby Foote’s Civil War: In Virginia December 1861, 10,000 of the 60,000 Confederate soldiers fighting for the rights of the 1%’ers to keep slaves in their plantations were fighting barefoot. IN VIRGINIA! IN DECEMBER!
From Richard J. Snyder’s History of the Third Reich: In 1952 a poll found in West Germany that 25% of the people had a favorable rating of Hitler. Seven years after he died and left his country and much of Europe in ruins.
Added Bonus. Oh, and 40% blamed the Jews for the Holocaust.
SMH…difficult to believe! Seems, even to this day, some of “the people” can’t see past, their delusions of “Grandeur”!