The Florida GOP earlier this week said Barron Trump, who is 18, would join three of the former president’s other children — Eric, Tiffany and Donald Trump Jr. — as delegates, with Eric Trump serving as the state’s delegation chair.
So the GOP just came out and announced it, perhaps without even asking Barron or Barron saying he wanted it.
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” former first lady Melania Trump’s office said in a statement.
Then mom comes in and says “no” on his behalf. So we STILL haven’t heard from Barron what his wishes are.
I’d like to think mom went to Trump and said “If you push Barron to do this, I’ll testify at your trial…you know which one”.
My guess is Trump asked him, or maybe even just told his guys he’d do it without asking Barron. Then Melania found out in the press and said ‘hell no’ to that.
Just shows that nobody in that family actually talks to each other.
That’s for the best. The unwritten rule has always been that children are off limits until they get involved. 18 is way too young to enter his father’s media circus.
Obama’s kids were used in ads by the NRA in 2013, before that they were invoked by school lunch advocates in 2008. Thanksgiving 2014 they went after them again. I’m probably not remembering more than that.
Didn’t the bush kids get bothered about trying to buy a beer?
This is the one space where we should never stoop to their level. Kids are off limits unless they’re actual adults. Leave them out of it.
I’m really glad that Barron isn’t going to involve himself here, because I don’t want him to get sucked into this unless he decides it’s what he wants to do.
Welp, Rush Is dead now. Dying was the coolest thing that man ever did. 🎉
Dying was his second coolest thing. His first coolest thing was becoming a drug addict after years of being critical to those with drug addition. He even said "drug abuse was a choice, not a disease. " He was alive long enough to live that hypocrisy and experience the ridicule for it.
Well, he also denied the smoking - lung cancer connection.
I cannot tell you how many people would argue with me - IRL and online - often molded directly after Rush’s style, and repeat, like good little parrots: “correlation is not causation! correlation is not causation!”. I think Ayn Rand had her cult members smoke as a matter of dogmatic adherence to her Objectivist ideals, too. I have to wonder how much of this made its way to all the little Libertarians and/or Republicans as a consequence.
Unfortunately, he and his many, many, many imitators all over hate radio, the web, and tv have done their best to manifest someone like Ronald McDonald. He may be gone but his movement is very much alive.
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There’s a lot to unpack here.
So the GOP just came out and announced it, perhaps without even asking Barron or Barron saying he wanted it.
Then mom comes in and says “no” on his behalf. So we STILL haven’t heard from Barron what his wishes are.
I’d like to think mom went to Trump and said “If you push Barron to do this, I’ll testify at your trial…you know which one”.
My guess is Trump asked him, or maybe even just told his guys he’d do it without asking Barron. Then Melania found out in the press and said ‘hell no’ to that.
Just shows that nobody in that family actually talks to each other.
Considering how they’ve exchanged a family dynamic for a corrupt corporate one, they probably just communicate in depositions.
Melania, after reading the news: “Oh, I guess he’ll be here for Barron’s graduation …”
That’s for the best. The unwritten rule has always been that children are off limits until they get involved. 18 is way too young to enter his father’s media circus.
Obama’s kids were used in ads by the NRA in 2013, before that they were invoked by school lunch advocates in 2008. Thanksgiving 2014 they went after them again. I’m probably not remembering more than that.
Didn’t the bush kids get bothered about trying to buy a beer?
I remember Rush constantly talking about Chelsea Clinton.
This is the one space where we should never stoop to their level. Kids are off limits unless they’re actual adults. Leave them out of it.
I’m really glad that Barron isn’t going to involve himself here, because I don’t want him to get sucked into this unless he decides it’s what he wants to do.
There were quite a lot of unwritten rules prior to 2016
The Republicans never abided by them. See Rush (de facto leader of the Republican Party for decades) and Chelsea Clinton, for instance.
Welp, Rush Is dead now. Dying was the coolest thing that man ever did. 🎉
I’m just happy he was finally able to get off drugs.
I wish he’d done it years earlier.
Dying was his second coolest thing. His first coolest thing was becoming a drug addict after years of being critical to those with drug addition. He even said "drug abuse was a choice, not a disease. " He was alive long enough to live that hypocrisy and experience the ridicule for it.
Well, he also denied the smoking - lung cancer connection.
I cannot tell you how many people would argue with me - IRL and online - often molded directly after Rush’s style, and repeat, like good little parrots: “correlation is not causation! correlation is not causation!”. I think Ayn Rand had her cult members smoke as a matter of dogmatic adherence to her Objectivist ideals, too. I have to wonder how much of this made its way to all the little Libertarians and/or Republicans as a consequence.
So dumb…
Unfortunately, he and his many, many, many imitators all over hate radio, the web, and tv have done their best to manifest someone like Ronald McDonald. He may be gone but his movement is very much alive.
The unwritten rule gets broken a lot. One 1887 article described President Garfield’s kids as “holy terrors.”