Showing posts with label Ivana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivana. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2018

Ivanka Trump: Trolled Hard for Frosty Mother"s Day Message to Ivana

Sunday was Mother’s Day, and like so many other celebrities who wrote tributes to their moms, Ivanka took to Instagram to architect a post of her own.


But she’s being slammed in the comments — even by people who seem to like her — for her brief, impersonal post about Ivana.


Is she deliberately giving her mom the cold shoulder?



Alongside an image of Ivana Trump, her mother who is one of Donald Trump’s ex-wives, Ivanka writes:


“Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing mother and the best skier I know!”


That’s a … super specific bit of praise.


“Love you.”


She follows that with a double heart emoji and a “#MothersDay” tag.


This was the accompanying image:



A number of commenters weren’t exactly overcome with emotion when they saw this glamour shot of Ivana or when they saw her daughter’s message.


“That was a weak Mother’s Day wish. Ivana, you deserve better than that.”


“How nice… but I’m sure she has some pretty amazing attributes as a mother than just being the best skier.”


“You are who you are because of her. She deserves more honor. Happy Mothers Day all!”


“Wow, that’s it?! And she’s @itsivanatrump supposed to visit you in #prison?? #prisonprep101 #LockThemAllUp.”


“Your dad should’ve been a better husband to her.”


Some of those are more political than others, obviously.






We included this image, because seeing it may highlight the brevity that alarmed so many commenters.


For a comparison, let’s look at Ivanka’s sister, Tiffany Trump, and the post that she made to her mother, Marla Maples.


Tiffany writes:


“Happy Mother’s Day! [double heart emoji] @itsmarlamaples I love you with all of my heart and I’m so grateful for all of your love!”


This caption accompanied a digital collage of photos of Tiffany and Marla:






Tiffany’s post is nearly as terse and frosty as Ivanka’s, but the photo collage is much more personal.


So perhaps it runs in the family?


At the same time, we should consider that even some of the criticisms that were not overtly political may have been politically motivated.


After all, it’s not like Ivana Trump has hordes of eager fans looking to defend her honor.


Rather, when someone is the daughter of the most hated man on the planet and plays an active role in his policies, everything that she does looks like a mistake.


That is understandable — the Mueller investigation is trudging along, but the wheels of justice move slowly.


Entertaining revelations about Trump, Russia, and Stormy Daniels aren’t really enough to distract from the waking nightmare of every day’s news.


People are looking to vent, and when the First Daughter can’t seem to synthesize enough human emotion to publish a personal Mother’s Day message, that’s as good of an opportunity as any other.



Ivanka and Tiffany’s Christmas video was much, much better than anything that they had to say about their moms.


In Ivanka’s defense, she and Jared are very busy at the moment and, in fact, they’re overseas.


In her … offense, we suppose … she and Jared are in Israel to oversee the deeply controversial moving of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.


This is seen as an insult to the Palestinian people, but some evangelical Christians believe that Trump is fulfilling biblical prophecy and ushering the world towards the End Times.


(Hey, both sides of the aisle agree that Trump is leading the world towards its destruction! A rare moment of unity, we suppose)


In the mean time, dozens of Palestinian protesters have been killed by Israeli snipers and countless others wounded.


In that context, Ivanka’s icy Mother’s Day post is sort of the least of people’s worries.



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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Ivana Trump and Melania Trump: Feuding!

Move over, Twilight. We found the world’s new worst love triangle.


Okay, well “love” might not be the operative word, here. But Trump’s third wife appears to be in a public feud with his first wife.


Like so much of what’s happened surrounding the White House this year, this feud is completely unprecedented and also … ridiculous.



Despite his flair for conflict and roots as a reality star, Donald Trump is not the source of this conflict.


His first wife, Ivana Trump, is the one kicking over sandcastles. Figuratively speaking.


While Trump was sending Mike Pence on a fool’s errand, hoping to stir the pot with a transparent political ploy, Ivana was promoting her book.


“Raising Trump” is about Ivana’s experience parenting the three eldest Trump children — Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr.


While you’d think that telling a story about raising three Horsemen of the Apocalypse would be enough, in and of itself, Ivana clearly takes after her former husband — because she decided to boast.


“I’m basically first Trump wife. OK? I’m first lady.”


And there’s more.



During part of Ivana’s promotion of her book, she bragged about having a direct line to Donald — but said that she doesn’t call him at the White House, because she politely doesn’t want to step on Melania’s toes.


“I [don’t] really want to call him there, because Melania is there. And I don’t want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that, because I’m basically first Trump wife. OK? I’m first lady.”


It’s a pun, you see — Melania is the First Lady (because her husband is President, because we’re living in the Darkest Timeline), but since Ivana was married to him first, she’s the first lady.


Ivana also expressed her sympathy for Melania having to live in DC.


“I think for her to be in Washington must be terrible. It’s better her than me. I would hate Washington.”


Ivana made one final dig, boasting about how easily she would adjust to the White House if she were First Lady.


“Would I straighten up the White House in 14 days? Absolutely. Can I give the speech for 45 minutes without [a] teleprompter? Absolutely. Can I read a contract? Can I negotiate? Can I entertain? Absolutely. But I would not really like to be there. I like my freedom.”


Obviously, Ivana knew that all of this would ruffle some feathers. She did it on purpose.


Books sell better when people know that they exist, after all. Publishing lives and dies on publicity.


It’s not surprising that Ivana is an intelligent woman. Her daughter Ivanka is a reasonably intelligent young woman, and she had to have inherited that from one of her parents.


By process of elimination, it had to have been from Ivana.



Melania knew the ploy for what it was immediately, but she was not amused.


Melania’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, issued a statement on the matter:


“Mrs. Trump has made the White House a home for Barron and the President. She loves living in Washington, DC and is honored by her role as First Lady of the United States. She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books.”


Selling books — she really hit the nail right on the head. And then some:


“There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.”


Yep — that’s the idea behind publicity tours, after all.



One almost wonders if Melania was deliberately speaking up in order to drive up publicity and help Ivana sell “Raising Trump” out of some sort of solidarity.


Whether that was her intent or whether she truly was trying to bash her husband’s ex, the effect is the same — more talk means more press means more book sales.


More than anything, a lot of people feel sorry for Ivana and Melania — because of their unenviable ties to Donald Trump.



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