Posted on 07/29/2018 6:00:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Donald J. Trump almost had the real, deal 5 time winning super bowl champion, Tom Brady, as his son-in-law, and based off a recent report, he still regrets that Ivanka opted to marry Jared Kushner instead of the greatest of all time football player.
The New York Times reports that the relationship between President Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, as well her husband, Jared Kushner, has been in flux in recent months.
According to Maggie Haberman, "Several times Mr. Trump joked that he 'could have had Tom Brady' as a son-in-law. 'Instead,' the president said, according to five people who heard him, 'I got Jared Kushner.'" Brady, now married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, one time went on a date with Ivanka. Apparently, her father arranged it. President Trump and Brady are publicly friends and Brady one time even had a "Make America Great Again" in the Patriots locker room at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA.
But, Ivanka and Brady never had a longterm dating life. It seems her current husband, Jared Kushner, sometimes rubs the president the wrong way. The Times notes that the president's relationship with his daughter's husband seemed to falter during their first year in office.
"As scrutiny of the couple often referred to as Javanka became increasingly intense during the president’s first year, Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump seemed to retreat from public view, and after several of their allies in the White House departed, there was a near-constant stream of questions about whether they would follow.
It did not help that the president had gone from telling aides to “talk to Jared,” as he did during the campaign, to telling them that “Jared hasn’t been so good for me.” At various points, Mr. Trump told friends and his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, that he wished both Jared and Ivanka would return to New York."
But, insiders now say that the President is back to depending on them for comfort and trust.
"But as one staff member after another has disappointed him and has departed or been dispatched, Mr. Trump has retreated into the familiarity of his family — his daughter, above all, and eventually, her husband. As Mr. Trump, cut off from dissenting voices and convinced of his own popularity, has become more emboldened, so have his daughter and son-in-law."
Others, such as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin have dismissed any reports of friction as silly.
“I think they felt in some ways when things escalated that they thought it was best to keep a lower profile and hone in on their specific policy areas,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary.
Ms. Trump’s announcement this past week that she would shut down her fashion brand, based in New York, seemed to symbolize a recommitment to her life and her husband’s in Washington. The woman who once said that she did not intend to stay in the capital long enough to become one of its “political creatures” — people she feels are “so principled that they get nothing done,” according to someone familiar with her thinking — said on Tuesday that she did not know “if I will ever return to the business.”
“Any suggestion that they were going to leave the White House was just ridiculous,” said Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, who was one of several allies the couple asked to speak on their behalf for this article. “They both have been dependable, valuable and effective partners for me and other members of the president’s cabinet.”
The entire article is well worth the read and highlights certain examples of signs of positive relationship and a negative relationship. It is tough to tell from anonymous sourcing what is true and what is false regarding the Trump family saga. Haberman says Trump made the comment regarding Brady as a joke, but it does not take a Washington insider to take one look at Kushner, and one look at Brady and realize that obviously anybody would rather have the latter as a son-in-law.
Author's note: The closest that I have ever been to meeting a “Tom Brady” of any kind was when my neighbor almost named his Japanese fighting fish after the legendary New England Patriots quarterback. Instead, he ended up naming the pet “Nomar” after the former Boston Red Sox shortstop, Nomar Garciaparra. I was pretty disappointed because I liked Brady better, but ultimately we were stuck with Nomar. I can only imagine what it feels like to have missed an opportunity to actually have the GOAT, Tom Brady, in your family.
“According to Maggie Haberman” - not a recommendation for accuracy.
however, same Townhall writer is reasonable re Sulzberger:
29 Jul: Townhall: Timothy Meads: President Trump Is Correct — Study Shows 90% Of Administration Media Coverage Is Negative
The 90% figure is corroborated by two studies, one taken in 2017 and one taken in 2018, conducted by the Media Research Center which “studied all broadcast evening news coverage of the President from January 1 through April 30, and found 90 percent of the evaluative comments about Trump were negative — precisely the same hostile tone we documented in 2017.” ...
The Washington Post recently noted that number may be inflated, citing two polls that showed only 62% of media coverage of President Trump is negative...
President Trump’s torrent of tweets come after announcing this morning that he met with A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, to discuss fake news and rhetoric...
But, as Rich Noyes notes, “There’s no precedent for a President receiving such a sustained level of negative press over such a long period of time. The fact that the public has become more favorable towards the President in this environment is the latest sign that the media watchdog’s bite isn’t as menacing as their bark suggests.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2018/07/29/presiden-trump-is-correct-—study-shows-90-of-media-coverage-negative-study-shows-n2504929
Weird Townhall writing an article from NYT quotes.
Half a quote with no beginning or ending. Yeller jerbalizm/innuendo/fake.
I know about Gisele; who was the other supermodel?
(Hint: I read once that Gisele started demanding payment in something other than US dollars-- as some kind of political protest, I believe. Oh if she had only demanded payment in Bolivars or Iranian dinars...)
This is truly fake, even for the NY Times. Outfake themselves each time.
I have found Kushner to be quite impressive on the diplomacy front in the Middle East and with prison reform.
What a romantic story. If he had Brady as his son-in-law they might crown him Emperor.
No prob, rest assured I will.
This story is depending on the NY Slimes as a source??? Really?
Oh.
Well then, so who is Ivana?
Not buying this story. Trump doesn’t make clumsy statements like that about his family.
No one should buy the story, since it is from the New York Slimes
“according to five people who heard him”
gotta hand it to The Slimes ... usually, they just make up between one and three fake sources, but I guess people aren’t buying it, so they figure five fake sources should be better ... pretty soon they’re gonna have it cranked all the way up to ELEVEN fake sources ...
I know, sorry. I had a brain fade
Nonsense...
Ivanka is in the leadership role of the new Apprentice Program and if you watched the video of it you see that her Father is effusive in his praise for her and all that is happening
Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who brings MSM garbage here to try and stir the pot with it to me will become an immediate Troll or shill and treated as such
They are the enemy and if you feel like posting it here mark it as such where it belongs, in the trash or at the bottom of a bird cage. They are peddling division in the family and if you play along I say birds of a feather flock together
Don’t take it too hard; I’ve more than once longed form an “Edit Post” tool here on FR.
“... I could have had a V8.:
I have scarcely been without one. Tried it. Meh.
350hp is a good minimum.
(Just kidding, Brady fans!)
LOL the girl behind her doesn’t understand.
The editorial staff of the NY Times seriously needs to get a life. Too much time on their hands. They have a highbrow format, but sometimes I wonder if we’ll be reading about two-headed alien babies soon. Why not publish high-fallutin’ poetry that nobody understands, or short stories with ironic endings. But nooo! Now they’re obsessing about Donald’s son in laws.
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