Dear Ivanka,
Please allow me to impart a bit of wisdom to you. It's the kind of wisdom one generally acquires before the age of six, if one is not a billionaire and/or has body guards.
"If you're gonna dish it out, make sure you can take it."
I'm not hopeful you know what that means. Especially after listening to you describe to your friends at Fox News how you were "not expecting the viciousness" that a number of people are directing toward your father.
So let me explain it to you.
On Planet Earth, people - for the most part - are not vicious unless somebody gives them a good reason to be. Some of these reasons are:
- Insults;
- Disrespect;
- Theft;
- Sexual harassment;
- Falsehoods;
- Threats;
- Mockery;
- Betrayal;
- Displays of extreme ignorance;
- Ketchup on steak.
Your father is guilty of all of these. Under normal circumstances, he would not have achieved adulthood in full possession of his teeth.
However, when someone is very rich, there are people who will apparently choose to overlook the offenses. I say "apparently" because, in many cases, they will simply opt for a more subtle form of revenge. I know this because I am Sicilian. And we invented revenge.
What exactly were you expecting? That all of your father's victims would just roll over and play dead? A natural expectation, I suppose, given the embarrassing performance of his Cabinet recently. Unfortunately for your father, though, there are more Americans than not who would rather see him on a one-way trip to the Sombrero Galaxy than in the White House.
Three million more, at last count.
I am guessing that we are to believe you are "the smart one" amongst the children of Trump (though my money's on Tiffany). Given the field, it's not much of an accomplishment. And you probably think you are doing wonderful things for the world.
But I promise you, you are not. You are simply putting a pretty face on an ugly situation.
Perhaps you believe that your father's behavior is normal. But We the people - because we were raised right - are not accepting it as our new normal.
We're dishing it right back at him. And we will continue to do so until he takes his toys and goes home.
Because that's how you handle a bully.
Regards to Jared,
Underemployed