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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany
Given Westerhouts sensitive role as a confidante to the president, the few details the White House shared about her abrupt firing had Washingtons political-media class in a quiet frenzy on Thursday night and Friday.
The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner, according to two people familiar with the matter, that Westerhout and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley held earlier this month with reporters who were covering Trumps vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldnt pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people. She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters, the person said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226
Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)She may have some more to say.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)mopinko
(70,090 posts)bsiebs
(688 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)I want to hear more.
LisaM
(27,807 posts)There are some comedic moments in this disaster, and this is right at the top.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Celerity
(43,339 posts)1 Ounce(s) Vodka
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Top off with:
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)Betcha anything Spanky wouldn't want to appear in a photo with an overweight daughter.
demmiblue
(36,845 posts)because Barron is taller.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I don't remember noticing that. He must have grown a bit since 2016.
Poor kid. Poor wealthy child.
Rhiannon12866
(205,300 posts)Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)asskisser told Trump about it?
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)riversedge
(70,204 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)That sounds exactly like the douchebag, especially the stuff about having his photo taken with Tiffany.
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)"the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight."
I don't care one way or the other that this woman lost her job working for Trump.
The takeaway for me is that this is another story about Trump being a terrible person.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)It's alright for men to be overweight in his world, but not women In his brain, women who are overweight and/or unattractive are considered "defective." Tiffany, being allegedly overweight and not a DILF also makes HIM look bad, because she is his offspring. He doesn't want anyone seeing that he produces "defective" offispring. (Apparently, he's never taken a close look at his two oldest sons, either...)
machoneman
(4,006 posts)Keg Stand
(64 posts)Trump is the biggest piece of shit on the planet.
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)Keg Stand
(64 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)And he's supposedly the healthiest man to ever hold the office of president!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)than his own daughters? 1. He adores Ivanka. 2. OK, I can believe the Tiffany part. 3. Bragging about her relationship with Trump is well, nothing to brag about. Tells me all about her that I want to know, she deserves to be on the receiving end of the way Trump usually treats people. Buh-bye to yet another stupid Trump sycophant.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)More like a really creepy, incestuous crush. We all know he's a sick fuck.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He barely had any part in her upbringing until she was, well, in puberty, at which point he started publically smooching and handling her.
As she grew up, he boasted about her sexiness publically.
Now she has to follow him around like a pooper scooper.
That doesn't sound "good" to me.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...that would be enough of an excuse, if I were her, to stay far away from the guy.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She's tolerating him so that she gets most or all of the money when he kicks off. And his attitude toward Tiffany is cruel and disgusting, considering the fact that he is always the fattest person in any photo he is in. Besides, she's not even overweight, from the pictures I have seen of her. Her face is a bit round, but she isn't heavy.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)She is not fat but not skinny, she looks healthy, and she does not have that cruel evil look coming from her face. The smiles I see on her face are real and not plastic hate. I hope she does not get sucked into that family anymore than she already is.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I'd bet she hasn't has a lot of cosmetic surgery like Ivanka. But then how important is it, anyway?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)is one of the things that does make her prettier.
JI7
(89,248 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)What could possibly go wrong?
The stupid is astounding!
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)that our government has become.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, even the oil profiteers are complaining about relaxations in EPA regs.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)His narcissism stokes fear that kids will distract attention from him.
One would think that tRump the populist would know America loves seeing politicians with their kids.....
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 30, 2019, 09:02 PM - Edit history (1)
the same place while pics or video are taken.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)Tallest boy
Tallest girl
Loudmouth
Cutest
New baby
Not so new baby
Oh jeez, not him
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How can you not adore your own grandchildren? He is one sick SOB.
It's like he can't even stand being around them long enough to use them as photo ops.
KatyaR
(3,445 posts)He has no need for anyone who doesn't do any of those things.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Sick old perv.
Dr Vegas
(456 posts)Worked for Christine Todd Whitman (running for NJ Gov.) Some reporter bought him a few drinks and he bragged about spreading "Street Money" to the Black Churches. He later walked back that comment but the damage was done.
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)of the good reverends and onto the streets.
Grifters gotta grift.
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)This is really a nasty business, and I don't think I want to read any more about it. Up to now it was just some silly idle gossip, but now I can see the vindictiveness of the reporters who called her out.
They got her fired, I hope they're happy. I think they're assholes. Whoever comes in to replace Madeleine will never speak to reporters ever.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)I have little-to-no sympathy for Trump sycophants, but there's supposed to be some ethics in journalism, and part of that is honoring "off the record" conversations, or at the very least saying up-front that you can't guarantee to do so, so that your source knows to keep their mouth shut. Agreeing to confidentiality and then breaching it just for the hell of it is lower-than-low. And, as noted elsewhere, it only means that reporters will have lost at least one and probably many voices of "deep background" in the administration, as I doubt anyone there would ever believe a reporter's promise to keep things off the record again.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)I guess that's gone too, along with their ethics.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Well yeah. Rumor is "Who the fuck are you?" is Trump's nickname for Tiffany.
mainer
(12,022 posts)and now reporters have one less whispering voice to tell them what's happening.
shanti
(21,675 posts)Cha
(297,193 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)Wolff's book claims he has very little to do with him.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)If so, then WTF was she doing working for Shtstain in the first place?
Today we have yet another in the endless story of Trump White House dysfunction. President Trumps personal assistant was abruptly fired, translated into a separated employee after Trump learned that shed blabbed to the press about Trumps family. For good corporate measure, she was also barred from even entering the White House today. Again, yet more Trump nonsense.
But let me come at this from a different direction. We dont know just what these family details were. But a personal assistant to the President has access to the President, his family and many of their collective intimacies and legitimately private life. If she really shared truly personal details with the press that is a massive breach and I suspect it would lead to termination under any White House maybe not quite so jaggedly, with the equivalent of being escorted out of the building. But fired? Im pretty sure yes.
But theres another nugget that to me is the real story. Heres a paragraph from the Times piece yesterday breaking this story.
Ms. Westerhout, a former Republican National Committee aide who also worked for Mitt Romneys 2012 presidential campaign, reportedly cried on election night because she was upset over Mr. Trumps victory. As such, the president at first viewed her warily, as a late convert to his cause who could not be trusted.
In the Trump world and with the kind of access journalism it spawns, I never know quite what to believe, quite what to take at face value. But if this is more or less accurate its just astounding. In November, Westerhout not only wasnt a Trump loyalist she was apparently driven to tears when she learned hed be President. Shed worked for the RNC and the Romney campaign. So shes a professional Republican. But she holds Trump in such contempt that she still was driven to tears when he, the Republican nominee, won the presidency over Hillary Clinton?
EDIT
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/getting-fired-aint-the-story
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But some of Mr. Trumps top officials like John F. Kelly, who has since left as chief of staff tried to turn Ms. Westerhout into an ally who could help them manage Oval Office traffic. They hoped that she could block individuals from reaching the president on the phone or in person, and that she would report back on the calls and meetings that made it through.
Ms. Westerhouts power in the White House came almost entirely from proximity. She is not a name-brand White House aide and has never appeared on television, unless it was an accidental shot of her hovering behind her boss. But while she was not a decision maker, she enjoyed unique access to Mr. Trump.
She also often shared snapshots on her private Instagram account of her life in the West Wing, including travel to rallies and Trump properties, and in one post she joked that she had been responsible for printing out a piece of paper that Mr. Trump held up and referred to at a public event.
EDIT/END
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/politics/trump-madeleine-westerhout.html
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Drinks at 11?
I'll bring the tape recorder.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)she said hurtful things about his kids. They weren't really hurtful things about his kids. They were remarks on his horrible relationship with his kids. She didn't say that Tiffany was overweight, she said that Trump perceived her to be overweight.
Here's a picture of her wearing a white dress
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Honestly I think she's lovely, even if she is the spawn of Satan.
Mike_DuBois
(93 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)Good Grief what is the matter with him? She doesnt look fuckable enough? He very thought her mother did...
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)Westerhout didn't trash Tiffany, it was Trump who did. Westerhout merely related what Donald had said.
RainCaster
(10,870 posts)This fucker has a very weird sense of values.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)His Lardbuttness can't see that. Sad!