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Donald Trump has a knack for making holidays bizarre. In simply the previous 12 months, he’s awkwardly referred to as out his spouse’s spooky Christmas aesthetic and ranted concerning the Iran struggle in entrance of the Easter Bunny. Over the weekend, he discovered some inventive new methods to make Father’s Day awkward.
Trump marked the vacation on Sunday morning with a Fact Social publish claiming that the U.S. now has the “BEST ECONOMY EVER!” and is “WINNING on all fronts”:
Clearly, there’s one thing lacking right here. The place’s Trump’s conventional vacation greeting to all “the haters and losers”? Oh, and he additionally forgot to say something about his 5 youngsters, his personal late father, or fatherhood typically.
This wasn’t the one unusual Father’s Day–associated publish from a Trump member of the family this weekend. On Saturday evening, the president baffled everybody by sharing a photograph of a lady with the caption, “Nice daughter. My honor!!! President DJT”:
No, there (in all probability) isn’t some long-lost Trump child. Media shops finally recognized the lady as Margo Catsimatidis, the spouse of Trump’s billionaire pal John Catsimatidis. Because the Day by day Beast famous, “The picture was seemingly taken at Camp David throughout the Clinton administration, because the state seal of Arkansas, Clinton’s house state, is seen within the picture.”
So why did Trump tweet out a decades-old picture of his buddy’s spouse with the caption “Nice daughter”? We’ve got just a few extra clues. (1) Trump visited Camp David over the weekend. (2) John and Margo’s daughter, Andrea Catsimatidis, is the chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Social gathering. (3) She not too long ago attended Trump’s UFC birthday bash.
On Sunday evening, Andrea Catsimatidis responded to the president’s publish as if it have been a standard post-party change. So perhaps he was trying to DM Andrea’s mother and father after working into her on the combat? Who is aware of; the White Home has not provided any assertion on what’s occurring right here, so it’s nonetheless a thriller.
Whereas Donald Trump didn’t acknowledge any of his relations on this weekend’s on-line musings, the Trump youngsters who’re energetic on-line posted regular Father’s Day greetings that includes images of their dad:
The outlier was Eric Trump. He didn’t acknowledge the vacation on his private accounts — probably as a result of the Trump Group stated all of it on this odd X publish that reads like Eric is an solely youngster:
The X publish hyperlinks to a prolonged “Father’s Day Tribute” on the Trump Group’s web site. Whereas Eric runs day-to-day operations of the corporate his father began, technically he and Don Jr. are each co-executive vice-presidents. However you wouldn’t know Don Jr. has any involvement from the fawning tribute to Eric’s bond together with his dad. It begins:
From development websites at his father’s facet to main one of many world’s most iconic actual property manufacturers, lengthy earlier than the boardrooms and billion-dollar offers, a younger boy spent his summers on job websites watching, studying, and absorbing the relentless work ethic of his father.
That boy was Eric Trump, and people early classes would form all the pieces that adopted.
… The story of Eric Trump is, in some ways, inseparable from the story of his father, President Donald J. Trump, a person who redefined American ambition and proved, again and again, that the phrase “unattainable” has no place within the vocabulary of a real builder. To grasp Eric is to know the place he got here from, who formed him, and why the empire he now stewards is greater than a household enterprise.
This was broadly interpreted as one other Trump household slight in opposition to Don Jr., simply weeks after Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Barron Trump skipped his Bahamas wedding ceremony to Bettina Anderson.
A better look means that’s not precisely what’s occurring right here. The Trump Group’s X feed principally consists of messages selling varied Trump household merchandise and properties, with occasional posts that present solely Eric and his household. For instance, right here’s how the Trump Group celebrated Father’s Day in 2025:
So the excellent news for Don Jr. is that his brother hasn’t instantly began snubbing him to be extra like their dad. The unhealthy information is that the Trump Group’s social-media account has been quietly snubbing him for years.
