The internal Trump family dynamics are always interesting from an socio-anthropological standpoint. Don Jr married Vanessa, who seemed like a nice woman with no big interest in politics or Washington life. He cheated on her and dumped her for a Fox News woman. Eric Trump seems… well, like he barely has two brain cells rattling around in there. He’s the Fredo of the Trumps – he’s not given anything important and he’s constantly “passed over” for important work. But Eric is married to Lara Trump, who is basically the kind of fast-talking, know-nothing political operative who is the GOP’s wet dream. Lara Trump reminds me so much of, like, a faux Ann Coulter. They even look similar. How did Eric the Dull end up with HER?
Anyway, Lara Trump is a frequent guest on Fox News and the like, and you can tell that she’s really ride-or-die for her father-in-law. She made an appearance on Bold TV (??) and she had some sh-t to say about the shutdown, which is on its 34th day.
President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump had this to say to the approximately 800,000 federal employees who aren’t being paid as the historic government shutdown is in its 33rd day:
“It’s not fair to you and we all get that, but this is so much bigger than any one person,” she told Bold TV on Monday when asked what she’d tell these workers. “It is a little bit of pain, but it’s going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice. Right now, I know it’s hard. I know people have families, they have bills to pay, they have mortgages, they have rents that are due.”
She said that the president is “trying to come up with a good solution here,” referring to his refusal to sign legislation funding federal government operations unless Congress gives him $5.7 billion to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
I’m including the video below – Lara’s comments are being interpreted as a “let them eat cake” moment from the Trump families. It’s clear that Lara has zero clue about what it’s actually like for the hundreds of thousands of families affected by the shutdown. And no, they’re not “sacrificing” for the greater good. They aren’t being paid because her father-in-law doesn’t want Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh to say mean things about him after he promised a million times that he was going to build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it.
Lara Trump just told unpaid federal employees, "Please stay strong." pic.twitter.com/M9TCnsR5wd
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 23, 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
Why are her arms so wonky??
I’m a nurse and she just became my girl crush of the day. I could sink a large bore IV into those veins from across the room….
Hahaha
oh, you’d hate me, then.
these days I have to take an IV in the back of my hand as it’s the only “findable” vein. 🙁
ETA: that was funny, though.
Lol. My hands and arms are sore and covered with bruises because no matter how much she poked me, the nurse couldn’t find a vein for my IV the other day. It finally ended up in the back of my hand like @whatWHAT, and it hurt bad. Ouch!!!
Beth, the bruises! ugh.
I’m not even in the medical field and I could set up an IV in those veins.
Heather, that was funny. lol
To those with harder to find veins, two tips: first, ask for someone from the lab to come do the i.v.., e.g. an MLT or MT. My mom had horrible veins from chemo and the only ones who could ever find a vein were the “vampires” from the lab. At first, nurses wouldn’t listen and would try anyway, and only after they had hurt my mom would they then do what we asked. (One put a needle all the way through her hand once. I’m glad that I wasn’t there or heads would’ve rolled!) We finally started preventing them from touching her until it was someone from the lab – even at the hospital.
And the second is that if you have to get an i.v. in your hand, request that they put a Lidoderm/Lidocaine patch – like they use prior to surgery – on it first. If they place it correctly, it will cover the entire area where the i.v. will be and it won’t hurt. (I make them wait 30 minutes after applying to make sure that the numbness is there because I’m a natural redhead and it takes longer for painkillers to work on me.) Best wishes!
Madonna vibes.
Don’t offend Madonna, please. Her arms actually worked a lot in life, these Trump arms haven’t.
Her arms are very toned is all I can think. They aren’t wonky.
They’re toned.
I mean, the woman is a monster but I don’t see anything wrong with her arms.
Why are these things still in the Whitehouse?
Oops, I meant the Russia house.
These gronks have turned it more into The Sh!thouse…
If there ever was a family that is so unattractive in every way. (Excluding Barron.)
Clueless and self-interested. I could not watch another replay of her comments.
I hope ET’s foundation is closely scrutinized. St. Jude does an enormous amount of fundraising (TV, mail, phone). Why would Fredo need a charity for that one recipient?
I would imagine Fredo ended up with her because she realized she could use his money and name recognition but still control the whole thing because he’s an idiot. of course, she is an idiot too but of a different nature.
I don’t think any amount of money or power would be worth sleeping with Eric trump, or having children with him. Give me the major creeps just thinking about it
She is a Trump by choice, which means she is every bit as shady, greedy, and racist as the rest of the bunch.
This entitled self righteous bee-yotch needs to STFU. There are furloughed employers receiving threatening letters/notices from creditors demanding immediate payment and facing eviction. Not every business is trying to be understanding and helpful. Think of the damage being done to employee’s credit ratings, the inabilty to pay for essentials, to put food on the table. And this entitled heifer is spouting off this nonsense. I wish the whole family would be taken out.
A LITTLE BIT OF PAIN????!!!!!’
Fuck you, you soulless c*nt.
Agreed!
yeah, one of my friends hubs works for the State Dept.
not only is the health insurance co telling them they have to pay their premiums in full regardless of when they get paid, they ALSO have to put up the employer contribution part (???!!!) or they get dropped. three kids, one with special needs…but yeah, just hold tight, the wife of the lesser Drumpf son says it’s worth the sacrifice.
and WHY the F is anybody interviewing this woman? can you imagine the howls from the GOP if Chelsea Clinton’s husband or Malia Obama’s boyfriend had put themselves out to talk policy on national TV?
I have a friend who works at State and still required to go in every day but isn’t getting paid. His wife recently got laid off so they have no money coming in. They had to take one kid out of pre-K because they didn’t have money for the tuition. They’re living off savings and their credit card right now and are putting on a brave face about it, but they are really worried. Living in DC, I have so many friends who work for govt. and none of them are getting paid. It’s one thing to lose one paycheck, but tomorrow is the 2nd one and there’s no end in sight. This is ridiculous and she should shut the h*ll up.
And then there are the State Department workers in our embassy in Venezuela who aren’t getting paid, have been told to stay put by the President, who has made no plans to evacuate them, and have been told by the Venezuelan government to get out by a specific time. If they stay, they are there illegally, face arrest, and possibly charges of espionage.
Thank you, IlsaLund, I was having trouble coming up with anything that wouldn’t violate commenting guidelines. You said it very well.
America what a joke.
You are asking people to work without pay for weeks and now they are begging for food and medicine.
I cant think of another industrial country with such a terrible system.
I don’t think the American public can save itself. Every time I think “Ok, the people MUST revolt now” they just…don’t. I guess they’re too busy waiting for their Amazon packages to arrive so they can add to the piles of clutter everywhere.
There have been so many times in the past two years where I thought Ok this is it, Americans will start a general strike to protest this insanity and then…crickets from the mainstream and only smaller protests….
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Wonder if she will be caught up in the Mueller probe at all. Isn’t she involved in offering bogus jobs in the 2020 campaign to administration officials who leave, and demanding non-disclosure agreements? While there’s probably nothing illegal there, maybe she is also doing/has done dirty work that her husband is too stupid to execute.
Yes, I think she was the one that was recorded offering OmaRosa a job in return for an NDA when she left the White House. I don’t think that the OmaRosa job offer is in anyway criminal though.
Yeah she’s a campaign adviser and her last name is Trump. No way that she’s getting out of this mess scot-free.
Let them eat cake Laras father in law promised that Mexico was going to pay for this stupid wall, so why should these workers have to put up with this “little bit of pain”?
If Ann Coulter and Kellyanne Conway had a love child…here it’d be.
They could name it Conanne and that would be accurate.
Perfect! What a manly looking woman she is! Guess she has the pair in that family ha ha ha.
Was coming on to soften my “manly” criticism but eff it. She deserves it.
Couldn’t watch it lady night won’t watch it now. I knew it was going to be a disastrous no clue moment. They all need to just be quiet.
This is not the first time the Nagini-wannabe has showed herself to be viciously cruel. Remember the whole fiasco when Orange Voldy made the insulting phone call to Sergeant LaDavid Johnson’s pregnant widow Myeisha as she was in the car on the way to the airport to meet her husband’s body, which then further devolved into John Kelly attacking Rep Frederica Wilson for daring to be in the car and listening when Myeisha put the phone on speaker? Lara saw an opportunity to get some attention for herself and score points with Daddy-in-law by claiming that she had seen a transcript of the phone conversation in the Oval office and both Fredrica and Myeisha were lying. She did this on the day of Sgt. Johnson’s funeral. Putting aside that Lara has no clearance or business whatsoever reading transcripts of White House telephone conversations, when asked later that same day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to admit that there was no transcript of the phone conversation.
I just looked up the comments she made about the phone call to Ladavid johnsons wife. I remember when this was happening but I never saw that part. What’s her problem? Or was there a transcript but they destroyed it when hey realize it made trump look terrible once again
There was never a transcript and she has no right to be reading anything in the Oval Office.
Wow, she is lower gutter trash.
@Chef Grace…Or Krasnyy Dom. (The Red House in Russian)
She will look fantastic in a orange prison jumpsuit. Princess Nagini and Melania will be so pissed. Meanwhile Eric and Jared will be happy just to have time to work on their colouring books, while his big brother and father fight over the last tube of hair gel. The prison guards will certainly be entertained
This is the second Nagini reference in this thread (referring to different people). I didn’t know this was a thing, pretty amusing.
With John Kelly out and Mulvaney sidelined, the real president right now is Nagini and Jared. Think. About. That. #wearesoscrewed
These vile creatures get away with murder but I can’t give TSA workers Visa gift cards to go buy groceries because ethics. It makes me so angry. Mueller better be building one hell of a case.
FYI, I work for the NPS & just checked my ethics guidance. We are allowed to accept $20 gift cards from stores, just not VISA or MasterCard, etc. So you can help out by handing out grocery store or Target or Walmart cards. And it would be very much appreciated.
I always thought Trump Jr. was the Fredo. The useful idiot Russia used to get that infamous Trump Tower meeting. Aren’t he and Kushner at the highest risk for arrest for conspiring against the US?
Eric is even stupider than Junior. They all claim Ivanka is “the smart one” and she’s a blithering idiot. Eric will be going down for charity fraud in violation of NY laws while his wife will face charges of campaign finance fraud.
Gotta build that wall cause he promised Daddy Putin and his cronies the steel contracts
Lara. You need to stop now. Settle down and go to your corner and be quiet. Rich people don’t get to tell working people that it’s okay for them not to be paid. I understand that in Trump world you would like to have your employees work for free, but in the rest of the United States we can’t do that.
I hope it won’t be long before she’s eating her words. I wonder if she’s ever considered that she might be the stuff of trumploon’s wet dreams? Eh, she’s so dim she’d probably take it as a compliment. Like the rest of the family, she’s all mouth and no trousers.
Kaiser, your first paragraph was gold. 🌟🌟🌟
The ploy by Emperor Zero to shut down the government to slow federal cases looking into conspiracy charges isn’t going to work, drumpf family member. It’ll be a great day in the United States when tax revenue ceases on April 15.
And grow some empathy hairs and close your trap about what may be affecting federal workers. Just shut it.
“it’s going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice. ”
Cause 20 yrs. from now, the children of these unpaid workers are gonna turn to their moms and dads and say, “Remember that time we lost our home cause of the Trump Shutdown, and had to live in our cars during the winter and I caught pneumonia and we couldn’t afford medicine? Man, I sure appreciate that sacrifice cause it got us a wall that hasn’t been built cause it’s still in litigation due to imminent domain laws and environmental concerns.”
And 40 years from now, the grandchildren of these workers will definitely say things like, “Grandma, I’m so glad you and grandpa were never able to afford food for mom during that Trump Shutdown, thereby making her chronically unhealthy for life. And that you lost your cars and wrecked your credit ratings and never recovered, thus becoming unable to provide anything for me and my parents. I really appreciate that sacrifice since we got that wall which was torn down after it started sinking into the drug cartel tunnels under it.”
Sure, Jan. Sure.
And they’ll say things like “thanks mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, for those useless, ugly barriers that are covered on both sides with graffiti, we’ll have to forever pay billions for their upkeep and replacements because the climate change caused hundreds of floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes that knock them down, and they all have hundreds of tunnels dug under them. What a swell idea the Trumpshutdown was and it was so much fun to lose our house, cars,medicine and food for these dumb barriers. Thanks for putting up with a little bit of pain like Lara Trump said!”
Sure,Lara. Sure
This is quite possibly the best comment I’ve ever read. Ever.
YOU ARE ON FIRE.
*clapping*
You left out the part where, after the backlash, she accused the media of twisting her words and called it “fake news”. I’m not kidding.
What a vile creature.
Blows my mind completely that they cry “fake news” even when they are directly quoted. That’s not twisting your words Lara.
I know several people affected by this shutdown. They’re not feeling inconvenienced, they’re worried about how they will feed and house their children. Those without children aren’t going to be able to make mortgage payments soon. Many people are working without pay and I know of some that are working illegally because even though it’s not considered a critical service, a lag in certain systems makes the rest of the data unusable or affects other services that the US relies on for the economy. I don’t want to elaborate, because I don’t want to out anyone, but I don’t think the large public realizes how much they ultimately rely on on government services. .
I try to reserve the C**T word for the likes of Ann Horseface and Twaty Lamebrain, but if the shoe fits….
We’re not ‘sacrificing’, that’s something you do willingly. We’re being held hostage. But I wouldn’t expect a trump to know the meaning of the word, ‘sacrifice’.
Why aren’t there mass walkouts from these employees: are they scared of being fired. If this happened in Europe, thete would be protests.
Furloughed union leaders protested outside McConnell’s office today and he had them arrested.
What?! Good gad, how low can they go?
I’m waiting for when the food stamps and wic give out in the poor mainly Trump voters states. Let’s see what happens when the deplorables can’t feed their own kids.
I’m on food stamps (snap) in California, and I am worried and not looking forward to not getting benefits in March. But I will grin and bare it to watch the Trump user base go up in flames. Let’s see his approval rating then 😈
Honest question.
Can the US be considered part of the west? Yes, it is powerful and rich, but I really don’t understand the lack of laws protecting its citizens. From healthcare, to the lack of maternity leave to lack of general work leave. It is astonishing.
This has to be the country with the most ill-informed people who keep voting against their best interest. Brexiteers are next in line, but even they wouldn’t allow no leave, no maternity, no National Health Care and public sector workers not being paid because May and her band of cronies couldn’t get their act together.
Tell me Lara…how much of a pain is it that people are having to ration essential medications to keep them alive because THEY CAN’T AFFORD IT???? What about the deaths of young people from diabetes because they haven’t the money to buy their insulin? The deaths of these people are going to come back to haunt you someday when you’re either in a prison cell or have gone to meet your maker. You’re a hardhearted, selfish witch with all the compassion of a rattlesnake.
LOL, the GOP has literally been fighting against nationalized healthcare for more than two decades all the way back to the 90s. They could give a sh*t less about anybody who isn’t rich dying. Their position has always been that the poor deserve their suffering.
This Trump chick bothers me almost more than even Treason Barbie. She grew up in my hometown, though we do not know each other. It was a beautiful picturesque beach town. She went from there to modeling to marrying a rich guy. And she has the brass ones to lecture people who have no $$ left about a little bit of pain. Gah omg such a lack of empathy. It boggles the mind.
I feel like “It is a little bit of pain, but it’s going to be for the future of our country!” is what Eric said to her the first time he asked for anal sex.
“Its a little bit of a pain”? Wow her privilige as a rich white lady is really showing.
Where have I seen that smirk before, in the first pic? Ah yeah…. the MAGA cap teen…. 😐
Look out, Mel. Looks like someone else wants to be FLOTUS.
People’s lives are affected by this… Not just their livelihoods or lifestyles, but their actual, literal lives. People who rely on electricity for medical equipment etc.
Wait just a minute Lara, you do not understand the meaning of living paycheck to paycheck while you and your dips*** husband live off the laudnered money of your a**hole of a father in law, I would like it if you would just shut your mouth. Your jacka** of a father in law put everybody in a complete panic over the shutdown, not knowing if they would be evicted from their homes or be able to pay their bills. So if you say it is just a little pain and we need to get used to it, you are as emptyheaded and stupid as the rest of your family.