A “brutal” video of Donald Trump appearing to snub his 10-year-old grandson during an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) match this weekend has gone viral, especially after the president’s beloved eldest daughter Former President, Ivanka Trump, is seen bending over. to console his dejected-looking son.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, brought their eldest son, Joseph, to the UFC match in Miami on Saturday night, where Trump, 77, made a featured appearance. Newsweek reported. On the clip shared with, the Republican presidential candidate was seen entering the Kaseya Center. He was flanked by UFC President Dana White as he greeted cheering fans and Kid Rock’s “American Badass” blared through the speakers, Newsweek also said.
Spotting Ivanka in the crowd, Trump hugged her, the clip shows. He also shook hands and kissed his son-in-law Kushner, who helped him get elected in 2016 and who, like Ivanka, served in the White House as a senior adviser.
However, as young Joseph began to get closer to his grandfather, Trump pulled away, leaving the child sad and confused, the clip shows. Ivanka’s big smile in front of the cameras quickly turned into a scowl, as she turned to console her son, who looked down with a hurt expression on his face.
The clip was posted by Ron Filipkowski, a leading Trump critic and editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch.com, a liberal political action committee. Filipkowski argued that the clip shows how fake a narcissistic Trump can be when it comes to his claims that he is a loving and devoted father and grandfather.
“Now I see why Ivanka was so upset,” Filipkowski captioned the video. “Trump blew up his own grandson while getting into a mugging with B-list celebrities, and the kid was pretty disappointed. That’s who he really is behind this fake show.
However, Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung responded to the clip and Filipkowski in a statement. on page six: “Imagine being a sad, basement-dwelling internet troll who suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome who has to make up a fantasy story to make sense of his miserable life. Sad!”
TMZ reported that it’s not clear what was going on with Trump at that time. Maybe he was just in a hurry and distracted by all the attention, but in any case, TMZ called the clip “brutal” and said it showed that “he didn’t give the time to his 10-year-old grandson…and it seemed to hurt the boy,”
In the past, Trump has pretended to be friendly and engaged with his grandchildren, particularly Ivanka’s children Joseph, Arabella, 12, and Theodore, 7. When he was president, Trump was photographed several times holding hands with Joseph and Arabella. crossing the lawn, TMZ and Insider reported.
Joseph Kushner’s relationship with Trump also made headlines in the summer of 2020 because of a controversial story told by Ivanka Trump that he made a replica of the White House to give to her grandfather .
In her speech introducing her father at the Republican National Convention in August 2020, Ivanka Trump described how her children easily adjusted to life in Washington, D.C., after their grandfather was elected president.
“When Jared and I moved with our three children to Washington, we didn’t know exactly what we would find ourselves in,” said Ivanka Trump, then a presidential adviser. “But our kids loved it from the start. My son Joseph quickly built Grandpa a Lego replica of the White House. The president still displays it on the mantle in the Oval Office and shows it to world leaders, just so they know he has the greatest grandchildren on Earth. »
Ivanka Trump was criticized for this story when a Trump family biographer noted that the first daughter had told a similar story about herself giving her father a Lego gift when she was a child, Insider reported. In a 2007 interview with Conan O’Brien, Ivanka Trump said she once built a Lego replica of Trump Tower in New York as a gift to her real estate developer father.
Andrea Bernstein, the author of “American Oligarchs,” a book about the Trump and Kushner families and their New York-based real estate empires, also said the Lego Trump Tower story appears to have been plagiarized from the company’s own book written by a Trump ghost: “The Art of the Deal,” Insider reported. In her own 2009 book “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump admitted that the Trump Tower story was false, Insider added.
But after Ivanka Trump was asked about the Lego history of the White House, she hopped on social media to show that Joseph had indeed built such a replica to give to his grandfather. She shared a photo of the boy posing with him and his father in the Oval Office.
However, Insider also reported that it was unclear where the Lego White House was in the summer of 2020. While a photo showed it was once on a table behind Resolute’s desk in the Oval Office , she then disappeared. Insider reported that the replica was not visible in subsequent photos of the Oval Office fireplace mantle, meaning Ivanka Trump may have faked the story that her father always proudly showed it off to world leaders .
