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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The most important thing you learn is that we can never say another mean thing about Don Jr again."
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.)
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.
MORE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/ivana-ivanka-trump-book.html?mtrref=www.balloon-juice.com&gwh=FC9B89F0AD4EC7C0C3CBD3D9AECD307A&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)His parents were crappy. Join the club. He's an asshole, so yeah, we can say mean things about him and the rest of the brood, but not Banker or Borrower or whatever the youngest is called.
lapucelle
(18,305 posts)This entire family blurts out the most appalling stuff because they think they're normal.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)and that's abnormal.
delisen
(6,044 posts)a few words about why she was unconscious.
delisen
(6,044 posts)The boarding schools, the nannies, the help...
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)Though think how much worse they would be if they'd been left with their parents.
delisen
(6,044 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)Laughing is good and we need it now more than ever.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)Ghostbusters II.
mahina
(17,693 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 23, 2017, 07:19 PM - Edit history (1)
It was awesome.
I had no idea any of that existed.
There were lots of black and Latino kids, and kids from poor families, on scholarships. We were lower middle class on a fat day and union supporters to this day.
And he would have gotten his ass kicked by the rich ones!
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magicarpet
(14,160 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)The sons paid tribute to their "irish nannies"
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/donald-trump-s-sons-pay-tribute-to-the-irish-nannies-who-raised-them
And yet, Donald Jr had a Serbian nanny until he was 8 or so
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4058416/Serbian-nanny-Trump-children-1980s-attended-military-academy-carried-gun-dies-aged-85-Belgrade.html
lapucelle
(18,305 posts)"What's your return policy?"
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)"The nanny was pushed". That's what I've heard anyway.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)Though I wouldn't be surprised given this family.
rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Why do these asses think we should feel bad for them?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Just wondering...
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Sad, but this is what they learn
tanyev
(42,601 posts)She seems to have disappeared as suddenly as she appeared.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tanyev
(42,601 posts)of working for the Trump family would be almost nonexistent online.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Nanny's death? Crazy bunch of psychopaths.
Maeve
(42,287 posts)"It was just to piss off your mom." Good lord, the message that sends to a kid...