Trump Family Values
people who’ve had business dealings with the three oldest Trump kids have described them to me as intelligent, even-keeled and relatively grounded in light of the media circus that surrounded their upbringing. That’s a reminder that for all of their father’s willful buffoonery, he has real smarts, real skills and a real place in polite society that they’ve all been exposed to.
THEY’RE an obedient lot, too, versed in the relevant talking points. They slipped in a reference to the self-funding of Trump’s campaign. They digressed to note that he was no poll-tested, focus-grouped political automaton.
.. Scratch that: He’s making it “amazing.” That was an adjective that his wife and kids, emulating his hyperbole, used 20 times during the town hall to describe Trump the man, Trump the mission, Trump the moment.
.. Donald Jr. proposed to his fiancée at a jewelry store in a New Jersey shopping mall to which TV cameras had been summoned, and there was chatter about his getting the ostentatious ring for free in the bargain. Those Trumps and their deals!