A Wonderful Young Man-Donald Trump Jr: from childhood struggles to global notoriety

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/14/donald-trump-jr-biography-childhood-russia
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Growing up, Don Jr spent summers staying with his maternal grandparents outside Prague. In particular, Ivana Trump’s father, Milos Zelnicek, was a role model, instilling in his grandson a love of hunting and fishing. Back in New York, he and his siblings were often accompanied by bodyguards.

That year, tabloids chronicled his father’s extramarital affair with Marla Maples, an aspiring model and actress, and his parent’s marriage collapsed in an extremely public fashion. Unlike his younger siblings Eric and Ivanka, who could remain for the most part blissfully unaware, Don Jr was just old enough to follow what was happening.

After that, he didn’t speak to his father for a year, and refused to attend the wedding with Maples. He was sent off to a strict boarding school, the Hill School in Pennsylvania, something he later said was a relief from his home life and the fishbowl of New York. But escaping his parents didn’t mean escaping his problems.
Cameron Greenlee, who attended the boarding school with both Trump brothers and served as a resident assistant to Eric, recalled Don Jr as quiet and his father as absent.

“I remember nothing of his dad except him showing up to give a bad career day speech,” Greenlee, whose older brother played squash with Don Jr., told the Guardian. “I don’t remember his father coming to see Donny play squash or visiting Eric in the dormitory.”

Plenty more at link

[Goonch]

1. Junior

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. And the RWers will use this to prove what a great dad DJT was. After all,

look how great the kid turned out. High quality person.

I knew it was true, but the increased evidence of the existence of so many Americans who actually admire this POS family (and virulently despised the Obamas) just makes me feel extremely sad, frustrated, and exhausted.

[pangaia]

3. donald trump - depositor of chromosomes....who then ran away from any responsibility

fucking coward....

He has spent his life screwing other human beings and running away from any responsibility for anything... including his own existence.

He hides from himself- is consumed with an inner fear .. of what he does not know? Life? Death?

[smirkymonkey]

4. At first you could almost feel sorry for him, but then you keep on reading...

"He proposed in a New Jersey mall surrounded [by] media thanks to a publicity deal cut with a store that paid for the $100,000 ring (his father told Larry King he thought that was “tacky”)."

"In 2012, when the elephant tail photo sparked public outcry, he went on Twitter to declare he would “make no apologies” to the “Peta crazies”.

“In some parts it's over populated. Bottom line with out hunters $ there wouldn’t be much left of africa. Eco is nice but no $,” one tweet from the time read."

"He tweeted that he wanted to give a “Pulitzer” to the propagator of “Pizzagate”, the conspiracy theory that Clinton aides ran a child sex ring out of basement of pizza shop that, in reality, has no basement."

"The 39-year-old has five children, like his dad. And though he prides himself on being a committed family man, at least some of his values regarding women seem to be in line with his father’s, as evidenced by old tweets about his “hookups” with forgotten female classmates and his playing arbiter of women’s beauty in his dad’s pageants."

He, and all the Trump children are just as rotten as their disgusting father if you look closely enough. I know Barron is only 11, but I really don't see the kid having much of a chance at becoming a decent human being either.

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5. Couldn't say it better

Pure scum

[longship]

6. More like "struggles to global ignominy"

[workinclasszero]

7. Great white hunter Trump

[Solly Mack]

8. If that was the we've all got problems side of the issue where Jr. is presented with human

frailties that we can all relate to and the hiccups of life that shape us all, then - well - it failed.