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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump: "I love Tiffany. I love Tiffany. It was supposed to be off the record."
Trump was asked about the story as he departed the White House for Camp David.
The whole thing was very unfortunate. I think the press is very dishonest because it was supposed to be off the record, but still, you dont say things like she said, which were just a little bit hurtful to some people, Trump argued.
Tiffany is great. I love Tiffany. I love Tiffany, he repeated.
Later in the interview, Trump said he would be talking to Tiffany as soon as he arrived at Camp David.
And I love Tiffany, he said once again. Tiffany is a great person.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-tells-reporters-he-loves-his-daughter-tiffany-after-shocking-report-that-he-thought-she-was-fat/
underpants
(182,772 posts)Dumbass. I guess "No comment" is in his realm of possibilities.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)No mention of the fact that she's only one of his children to actually earn a LAW DEGREE.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are so unflattering. Not that we should be body-shaming any women, but if Trump thinks that Tiffany is overweight and that he is "handsome and virile" then he is clearly blind.
Tiffany should thank her lucky stars that she never had anything to do with him. She still has a chance to turn out to be a decent human being.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)This one is from Easter Sunday, 2019:
Her dress isn't helping here, but it does appear she has gained a bit of weight, so I can see from where the "overweight" shit comes. Not that it gives her asshole father any right to treat her like that.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)But then, a real father wouldn't talk about dating his other daughter.
no_hypocrisy
(46,081 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)I'm guessing she's the least surprised person in this whole episode.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)Ok, deep breath and I'll share this. When I was still in my late teens, one of my aunt's called me ugly. It was Christmas Eve, my mother was in the room and heard this, and didn't say a word in my defense. Her silence told me all I needed to know about myself. It shattered my self confidence and I've been battling and trying to overcome that night, ever since.
They say it takes 1,000 'atta boy' or 'atta girl' to overcome one cruel word, from a parent. I think that's an underestimate.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)You are right. It is actually physiological. Our brains literally retain negative information longer and stronger than any positive information encoded. I was also called various names by family members. My mother did actually step in and defend me at times, though not as consistently as I would have hoped, but you are absolutely right, those things stick with you and can affect you for years and years.
FM123
(10,053 posts)I know that it does not make up for what your aunt said or what your mother didn't, but I just want you to know that I am so very sorry that happened to you.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)When I was an awkward preteen my grandmother sent me an outfit for my birthday that was labeled as a "chubby" size (they did that in those days). It was ugly and too big for me. I wasn't overweight, though I had kind of a dumpy, undeveloped figure - but I wore regular clothes sizes, and I was just crushed that my grandma thought I was fat and had to wear clothes for fat girls. You don't ever forget that sort of thing.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Most of us have little control over our looks, but we can choose to be good persons.
That aunt of yours will never be that.
tanyev
(42,551 posts)So blame Madeline, blame whoever tattled on her, but how the hell does this make the press very dishonest?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Tell this to the true believers and their heads explode.
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)She has round facial features and appears to have a healthy body mass. From the little I know about her she seems motivated to educate herself and enjoys an active social life. She chooses to not hang her life on the White House or ingratiate herself to those that live and work there. That seems to indicate to me that she has fairly good judgement.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)None of us get to pick our parents, and YES, she has made a life for herself outside of the "orbit." Good for her. She is OK in my book.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)This fool has no humanity. Why the hell did he not have a conversation with his daughter about his concerns? Why tell someone else outside the family? Why even say anything at all? Let people be who they are.
"The press is dishonest" for what? Reporting what was said? Off the record. Why the hell have ANY "off the record" discussion with the Press, you know the people who report things to the public for a living.
He isn't even smart enough to be sentient, how the hell is he the president?
Hekate
(90,645 posts)...of a few weeks after pregnancy to resume the figure he wanted her to have.
The guy is a pig. I'm sure he made his assessment known to Tiffany in various none too subtle ways.
Caliman73
(11,730 posts)And... you are insulting pigs by comparing Trump to them. Pigs are rather smart creatures, and they likely have a deeper range of emotions and are likely more endearing despite their propensity to wallow in mud and they own excrement.
Trump is his own unique brand of disgusting. If I had to compare him to any organism I'd say HIV or the Herpes virus.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Trump was getting spanked by a porn star and starting a 'relationship' with a Playboy model.
And he told them they reminded him of his ELDER daughter.
Frankly, I suspect Tiffany is going to be more well-adjusted than the kids that stayed in the Trump orbit. Don Jr is a shattered shell, Ivanka is a brittle bot.
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Caliman73
(11,730 posts)When you call your daughter "fat", when you grope your other daughter, when you hint that you would bang your daughter if she wasn't your daughter, when your answer about what your daughter's qualities are when she is ONE year old and you say her "legs" and then wonder if she is going to develop big breasts, when you grope young women, when you barge into the dressing rooms of adolescent and young women, when you say that as a celebrity you can "do anything, grab em by the pussy", when you constantly disparage women as "ugly", "disgusting", "nasty", "bleeding from her...wherever" then it isn't "she" that has made you sound that way; it is YOU.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is such a disgusting pig. I don't know how any woman can bear his presence.
Cattledog
(5,914 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)That's the worst defensive excuse.
Then he says he likes her. No he doesn't. When he doesn't think she'll find out, he thinks she's shit.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)This asshat is beyond words.
I cant imagine being his spawn.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)I'm sure he's let her know, one way or the other.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Her mother kept her in California far away from DJT's influence... probably a good choice.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)someone needs to crank up the wind-up thing on Melania's back
madaboutharry
(40,208 posts)In more recent photos Tiffany looks like she has gained weight. Not that that is any excuse for her father acting like an asshole.
The very fact that he repeated numerous times that he loves Tiffany and thinks she is a great person is pretty good evidence that he doesn't really think about her much at all.
Hekate
(90,645 posts)To me that just screamed "Stress!!!"
From the time she first showed up during the campaign, she always seemed to be the odd-man-out in the family photos. Unwelcome. Not part of The Original Three. I figured she was more lucky than she knew not to have been raised in that nest of snakes.
sir pball
(4,741 posts)And hates where it came from, I've heard this from someone who's met her.
ETA - she's also 25, it's not uncommon to gain weight around that age. God knows I did.
enid602
(8,614 posts)Ill bet Tiff changes her last name once hes behind bars.
sir pball
(4,741 posts)Rich White girls, to be fair, but apparently she's trying to just keep her head down and ride all this out, she's nothing like her father (K. has hung out with her and likes her, and he's a gay lawyer to the Left of Bernie so I take his word).
renate
(13,776 posts)She (the daughter/Tiffanys friend) says shes normal and not stuck up or anything.
sir pball
(4,741 posts)I keep pushing K to get her to.go.oit drinking with us, that seems.fun..
StarryNite
(9,443 posts)The public or himself?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Were actually rooting for you!
MFM008
(19,805 posts)While he throws his fat crazy ass around.