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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. Exactly right. But his ego does require him to
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 08:52 AM
Nov 2016

believe that he's better for the nation than anyone else. "I alone can fix it." He undoubtedly believed that as he said it. And he'll believe his "fixes" are good whenever that thought pleases him.

Regarding his family, this bit from a New Yorker article describes Ivanka's attempts as a child to keep her father in her life, or perhaps more to keep herself in his life.

In “The Trump Card,” a memoir-cum-marketing manual published in 2010, Ivanka writes that her father’s divorce made her realize that “I could no longer take him for granted.” A Trump family friend told me, “It’s a close family in many ways—except it’s all about Donald all the time.” He went on, “Donald only thinks of himself. When you say, ‘Donald, it’s raining today,’ he says, ‘It doesn’t matter, I’m indoors.’”

To get on his parental radar, it appears, you had to go to him. When he moved into an apartment ten floors below Ivana and the children, Ivanka developed a new routine: “I now went down to see him every morning before school, and I also started dropping by his office on my way home in the afternoon.”

In an interview with CNN, she told a story about hiding in a janitor’s closet during recess at school, so that she could call her father. “I was probably ten years old and I’d call collect to the Trump Organization,” she said. According to a onetime associate of the Trump family, “If anyone else—even the boys—called, they wouldn’t necessarily be put through.” He added, “He never did not take a call from Ivanka. It was like a standing order.”


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